Anyway, there's no shortage of the real world, or reasonable facsimiles, on the wireless. On BBC Radio 5 Live, however, more often than not the documentaries slotted decoratively into the spaces between live sport and dead talk on the station are fairly abysmal, predictable exercises that, like a schlock thriller, give away all their best bits in their promo trailers. In fact, the promos invariably oversell even those half-decent parts. Live fast and brash in tone - talks to them both. Nah, one of them comes rather close to saying that if you did that you'd end up like some, unnamed, people who can't live with themselves.
Some reconciliation seems easier than others.
Senior republicans and ex-loyalist prisoners have been seen, McAuley says, having coffee and chips in Ballycastle.