A feature report for BBC Radio 4’s Sunday programme, about the remarkable St. Bride’s Church of Fleet Street, London. (Click here. Report begins at 29:30)

Courtesy: Christopher Ward
A feature report for BBC Radio 4’s Sunday programme, about the remarkable St. Bride’s Church of Fleet Street, London. (Click here. Report begins at 29:30)
Courtesy: Christopher Ward
Posted in RADIO, Uncategorized
The Radio Academy award (ARIAS) for Best News Coverage 2017 went to the Stephen Nolan Show on BBC Radio 5 live for its coverage of the London Bridge attacks, when eight people were killed and dozens more were injured. I was part of the BBC Radio 5 live team that night, reporting from the scene.
Posted in RADIO
In August 2017, I cycled the length of the Irish border to speak to local people about what a change to the frontier might mean after Brexit. I produced a three-part radio series on the trip; first for BBC Radio 5 live, and then for RTÉ Radio 1.
Here is the series as it aired on RTÉ Radio 1’s Drivetime programme:
#LondonBridge witness “we saw someone (getting) CPR laying on the floor” @GlobalNational @BBCBreaking @bbc5live pic.twitter.com/m6XgurGWR2
— Redmond Shannon (@RedShannon) June 3, 2017
Police urging people to leave scene #LondonBridge pic.twitter.com/kmS7NgNq8g
— Redmond Shannon (@RedShannon) June 3, 2017
My last assignment for CBC News after seven years with Canada’s national broadcaster. Below are the radio file and a link to the written piece.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/brexit-effect-ireland-border-1.3657173
More than one-fifth of the money paid to veterans by the federal government for prescribed drugs in the fiscal year 2015-16 went toward medical cannabis. That’s up from just 0.5 per cent in 2013-14.
Read more here:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/cannabis-veterans-drug-payments-1.3598954
Two mothers say their children had to move schools after the result of a teacher discipline case was not made public.
Read here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/oromocto-teacher-discipline-secret-1.3587223
Watch here:
A CBC News investigation reveals that provincial utility provider NB Power has paid a J.D. Irving company more than $12.3 million in penalties and contract renegotiation fees since 2009.
Posted in LITTLE VICTORIES, RADIO, TV, WRITING
In March 2014, I illustrated how easy it is to make a copy of the new 2014 Fredericton transit passes. The city has now decided to add holograms for 2015.
Posted in BLOG, LITTLE VICTORIES, RADIO, TV
Following the reports I filed on the expenses of New Brunswick MLA Greg Davis in March (including exclusive details of a party loan and how it remained secret), the province’s Legislative Assembly has introduced new legislation to ensure MLA expenses are reported more frequently and more transparently.
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