@conorgarrett

BBC Audio documentary producer. Belfast.

Joined April 2010
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@watsonchas30 Aug 2025
As politicians waffle & procrastinate, “action plans” are not actioned - and agriculture continues it’s skilful lobbying to be able to pollute for profit with impunity - Lough Neagh, the UK’s biggest freshwater body, dies before our eyes ☠️☠️☠️ 😡😩😡 theguardian.com/environment/…

UK’s largest lake faces environmental crisis as rescue plans stall

Toxic algae cases in Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh set to worsen this year, as local fishers’ incomes plummet

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The hippy heroes who took on McDonald’s Comedian Mark Steel explores the McLibel case – the longest trial in British history – in a riveting series. Plus, an unmissable documentary about the Asian front of the second world war. @msmirandasawyer bit.ly/4mW2oWs

The hippy heroes who took on McDonald’s | The Observer

Comedian Mark Steel explores the McLibel case – the longest trial in British history – in a riveting series. Plus, an unmissable documentary about the Asian front of the second world war

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An at-home DNA test - taken by chance when a game of golf is rained off - forces one man and three women to reassess everything they thought they knew about their families. An incredible and otherwise unheard true story about two babies switched at birth. Listen to The Gift S2.
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Series 2 of The Gift is launching very soon! I cannot wait to share these stories with you. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…

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Podcast Episode · The Gift · S2 Trailer · 2min

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Carlo Gébler navigates the wings of the Maze Prison’s notorious H-Blocks - to unlock the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. A BBC Studios Audio Production Escape From The Maze | Listen on BBC Sounds
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Simon O'Hagan@SimonOHagan17 Jul 2024
Two really outstanding series running all this week on @BBCRadio4 and @BBCRadio3. Masterclasses in the medium from Carlo Gebler and @WhitlockMonica.
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@TechCrunch9 Feb 2024
Listen to TechCrunch reporter @lorenzofb in this @BBCRadio4 bonus episode of The Gift exploring how the @23andMe breach unfolded, who was affected, and what it means for companies handling this kind of highly sensitive data👇🎧 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001w6z…

BBC Radio 4 - The Gift, Series 1, Bonus: Hacked

Jenny Kleeman asks if an unprecedented theft of DNA data was a racially motivated attack.

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Belfast Zoo@BelfastZoo16 Jan 2024
❄️ Visitor update! ❄️ Belfast Zoo is closed today due to the wintry weather. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. Our silverback Gugas has been making the most of the snow and has been out making snowballs. ⛄️
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The MD list of Alternative National Treasures: Terri Hooley 🎖️
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A few episodes into “Things Fall Apart”series 2, @jonronson’s new series on @BBCSounds and it is brilliant and illuminating and haunting. Hugely recommended.
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Catch on @BBCSounds A fascinating and rather amazing story.
Conor Garrett@conorgarrett8 Jan 2024
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001v3g… The spirit of Elvis Presley and the mind of Bill Drummond meet at the crossroads in the village of Cushendall in the Glens of Antrim. Tomorrow 1130am @BBCRadio4
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Drumroll… I get my DNA results in the sixth and final episode of The Gift, out today at 11am on @BBCRadio4. If you can’t wait, it’s already there @BBCSounds and wherever else you get podcasts 🧬📻
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Today’s episode of The Gift is one of the most extraordinary stories I’ve ever encountered. Catch it on ⁦@BBCRadio4⁩ at 11am, or, if you can’t wait, it’s already on ⁦@BBCSounds⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001qm…

The Gift - Series 1 - 2. Justice - BBC Sounds

A son's quest to learn more about his late father unexpectedly reveals a shocking crime.

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“This important series is utterly compelling, stop-what-you’re-doing-and-listen storytelling, the kind of radio that makes me sit in my parked car in rapt awe until it’s over. Unmissable.” First review for The Gift is in! ⁦thank you ⁦@TeleTVRadio⁩ telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-t…

Tempted to gift a family member a DNA test? Prepare for shocking secrets and deception

Radio 4 considers the downsides of diving into ancestry; elsewhere, the story of when millions of Lego bricks spilt into Cornish waters

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Jenny Kleeman@jennykleeman9 Sep 2023
I wrote this for today's Guardian Saturday magazine. This story is one of six I'm telling in my new BBC series, The Gift, which launches on Monday. Link in the tweet above this one theguardian.com/lifeandstyle…

‘Something happened, somehow something got mixed up’: the at-home DNA test that changed two...

Both were from Utah and had sons born via IVF. But the Johnsons and the McNeils, it turned out, had much more in common than that …

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Julian May@julian_may3 Sep 2023
‘Whatever you say say nothing’. But he wrote wisely. The third episode of Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, about how he responded to The Troubles, presented by @gailmcconnell is on @BBCRadio4 today at 4.30, and then on BBC Sounds. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001q69…

BBC Radio 4 - Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, Seamus Heaney - The Troubles

Gail McConnell on how Seamus Heaney responded in his poetry to The Troubles in Ulster

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Honoured to have had the chance to make this. Thanks to all those who made it possible.
Irish Foreign Ministry
@dfatirl7 Apr 2023
This Good Friday, watch a powerful and moving reflection by poet and academic Gail McConnell on the 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. #GFA25
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It was such a pleasure to narrate this story from @BBCSounds. Incredible archival tape in this project!
BBC Sounds
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Breaking Mississippi tells the inside story of one man's war against racial segregation in 1960s America. Told by James Meredith himself, and presented by @JWhitePubRadio.

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BBC Sounds
@BBCSounds13 Mar 2023
Breaking Mississippi tells the inside story of one man's war against racial segregation in 1960s America. Told by James Meredith himself, and presented by @JWhitePubRadio.

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The Guardian
@guardian9 Mar 2023
Civil rights activist James Meredith reflects on his remarkable life theguardian.com/tv-and-radio…

Best podcasts of the week: Civil rights activist James Meredith reflects on his remarkable life

In this week’s newsletter: The first Black student at the University of Mississippi looks back at segregation and his activism and legacy in Breaking Mississippi. Plus: five of the best Oscars...

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