Another World

 Another World 21

Rodney Moore

Episode 21 goes to Ballymena, to Rodney Moore’s gym.  He works as a bouncer along with the other guys at his gym, and they also train for Ultimate Fighting Championship.  Rodney explains what it means to be a bouncer, how they can spot trouble, and what they’ve done to clean up Ballymena night life.  Also on topic: the growing scene of UFC and mixed martial arts in Ballymena and beyond.

Another World Episode 20

Episode 20 goes to Derry, to the Museum of Free Derry, to hear from John Kelly.  He works meeting and greeting visitors to the Museum, and speaks about his job as well as his personal experiences of Bloody Sunday.  He lost his brother Michael Kelly that day and has been involved in many efforts to find redress for the victims – including acting as a Family Liaison Officer for the Bloody Sunday Commission.

The second half of the show returns to Belfast to talk with Robert Herdman at the Belfast Hypnosis Centre.  He’s the main hypnotist at the centre, where he uses a technique of Five Path Hypnosis, which he’s brought from California to Northern Ireland.  He recommends hypnosis as a means to lose weight, stop smoking, and overcome other fears.  In the interview, he explains how hypnosis works, what he does during a session, and how people in Northern Ireland react to it.

Another World Episode 19

Quilts meet politics as Roberta Bacic takes on us a tour of Chilean wall hangings made during women under the Pinochet dictatorship.  The quilts are not typical ones – they show village life in all its complications, including the violence, activism, and family life during the 1970s and 80s.  The arpilleras have travelled around the world, having been sold and exported in order to raise money for women in Chilean villages and also to tell their stories to the outside world.

Another World Episode 18

Dan Parish grew up in New England and was set on a successful path, but by the end of his 20s he had dropped out of his PhD program and found his way to Mexico City playing flamenco guitar. In this week’s episode, he tells of burning out and growing facial hair in the 1960s, of the attractions and dangers of flamenco life, and of figuring out how to be happy writing music and living the New Hampshire life as — he puts it — a ‘worker in the arms of nature rather than a struggler in the flow of man’s idea of work’.

Another World Episode 17

Ross Hamilton Cleary, the son of The Singing Priest of Ireland, Father Michael Cleary, speaks alongside filmmaker Alison Millar about the new documentary ‘At Home With the Clearys’. Ross and Alison discuss the scandal that arose when Fr Cleary’s secret relationships were revealed, what life has been like for the family since, and how the film has been received in Ireland.

In the second half of the show, the Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, Dr Monica McWilliams, talks about the upcoming Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland — how the process has developed, why it is necessary, and what the future holds for it.

Another World Episode 16

Michael Mahadeo has lived in Northern Ireland since the mid 1980s, when he moved here from British Guyana. He speaks about growing up in Guyana during its decolonization, and about the most notorious part of the country’s recent history — the Jonestown massacre, in which hundreds of American citizens killed themselves on a compound in rural Guyana. Michael also discusses being an ethnic minority in Northern Ireland, adjusting to the Troubles, and whether it’s ever possible to become a local here.

Another World Episode 15

In the first half hour, Mandy Jones and Julie Rea of the Simon Community NI discuss why homelessness is on the rise in Belfast, how their group works to address it, and what results they’ve seen.  In the second half, Carla Pflueger talks about owning and working in Wilma’s Candy & Fudge Factory over the past twenty-some years.  She and her husband Harold started the business in the basement of their home in Saxonburg, Pennsylvania and sold it 2 years ago.  Carla talks about the art of making candies, the catastrophes that can happen in a chocolate factory, and what life after chocolate holds for her.

Another World Episode 14

In the 1980s, Larry Evans was named a national security threat, Hollywood script writers were intent on telling his life story, he was crossing the Iron Curtain, and he was overtaking the Pittsburgh public television airwaves. As the steel mills were closing down in that decade, Larry ran the Millhunk Herald, a local journal, and was active in the efforts to keep the industry alive. He tells his story — how he got politically active, what’s happened to him since those activist days, and what it’s like to be classed a threat to society.