Talkback (radio programme)

Talkback is BBC Radio Ulster's award-winning daily political and current-affairs phone-in programme, currently presented by William Crawley.

Barry Cowan was replaced as presenter in 1989 by David Dunseith — affectionately known by some Northern Ireland politicians as "the great interrupter".

Talkback has been described by The Guardian as "an alternative peace process",[3] and by Stephen Coleman, Director of Studies at The Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government, as "a public sounding board which reaches a larger listening audience than any other European phone-in."

Following Dunseith's death in July 2011,[4] Wendy Austin presented the show until she announced her resignation on 23 September 2014.

[5] Since 3 November 2014, as a shake up of Radio Ulster, William Crawley has presented the show.