ATL Remembers...The Bottom Line

The Bottom Line programme was the first chance to hear about breaking music and youth issues on BBC Radio Ulster. It was the founding vision that eventually birthed Across The Line. Launched in 1986, it featured the voices of Davy Sims, Mike Edgar, Mickey Bradley and London correspondent Barry McIlheney. It followed stories with reporters in California, South Africa and beyond. Reports were delivered from phone boxes while radio packages were edited in the old school manner – with quarter inch tape, chalk, razor blades and sticky tape. Twenty nine years later and the ATL team looks back with amazement at the results that our that predecessors achieved. As we start to document so many great stories and events since 1986, it is only fair that we begin with those intrepid shows.

Stuart Bailie