The Folks on the Hill is a satirical sketch show, which started in January 2001 as a Saturday morning BBC Radio Ulster broadcast.
[2] In its 10th year, the final, 17th series was broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster from Saturday 8 October[3] until 12 November 2011, the day before writer and voice-over star Sean Crummey died.
[4] The show is a light-hearted, comic parody of the prominent figures of Northern Irish politics, and occasionally other politicians including Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Bertie Ahern and George W. Bush.
The programme was written by Belfast impressionist, Sean Crummey, animated by Liam O'Neill[1] (later Ciaran Boyle) and produced by Owen McFadden.
[3] "The Folks Who Live On the Hill" (1937) is a ballad written by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern.