BBC Northern Ireland's award-winning Sunday morning speech radio programme has a magazine format and a focus on religion, ethics and current affairs.
Sunday Sequence is one of BBC Radio Ulster's longest running programmes. It has been on-air since September 14th 1980. Since 2002, it has been presented by William Crawley. It was previously presented by Etta Halliday (1995-2002), Patrick Speight, Alison Hilliard, Davy Sims and Trevor Williams.
The producer is currently Séamus Boyd, who replaced Martin O'Brien, who produced the programme since 1995.
Sunday Sequence won two Andrew Cross Awards in 2002, one of them for its response to September 11, 2011. It won a third Andrew Cross Award as well as a commendation in 2006 in the UK radio speech programme of the year category for a special programme responding to the death of Pope John Paul II.
Sunday Sequence is currently broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster, every Sunday morning from 8.30 - 10.15 a.m. An edited weekly podcast, Everyday Ethics, is available to download shortly after each broadcast.
Famous quotes containing the words sunday, sequence and/or radio:
“It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.”
—Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)
“It isn’t that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history’s meaning.”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)
“A bibulation of sports writers, a yammer of radio announcers, a guilt of umpires, an indigence of writers.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)