Child of Ardoyne

Another track that we listened to in class yesterday was 'Child of Ardoyne' by Alan Hall. Unfortunately I cant seem to find it online to add it here.

The piece was about the Catholic/Protestant killings in Ireland during the 1970s/80s. It combines news interviews from the time, more recent interviews with people that remember it, and various sound effects of children and passing cars that make it more emotive and give the listener more of a feeling of what it was like to be there.

I like that they included some shocking news recordings fromt he time, for instance the grandmother that shouts and is encouraging her grandchildren to walk past all the chaos, the subject material is shocking and im glad they kept in some slightly shocking material other than just interviews about it because the 'troubling time' was shocking and listeners can often 'switch off' more easily with audio.
I also like how a child reads out some of the names and dates of the children that were killed during the piece, to have a child do it makes it stand out more in the listeners head.