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The State of Us Episodes

  1. Episode 6

    Tara Mills and Declan Harvey react and reflect on news stories in a BBC NI podcast.

  2. 08/06/2025

    Tara Mills and Declan Harvey react and reflect on the news stories in Northern Ireland.

  3. 01/06/2025

    Tara Mills and Declan Harvey react and reflect on news stories in a BBC NI podcast.

  4. Episode 3

    Tara Mills and Declan Harvey react and reflect on news stories in a BBC NI podcast.

  5. Episode 2

    Tara Mills and Declan Harvey react and reflect on the news stories in Northern Ireland.

  6. Episode 1

    Tara Mills and Declan Harvey react and reflect on the news stories in Northern Ireland.

  7. Winston Irvine, paramilitary prison wings & Jonathan Anderson rules Dior

    Tara & Declan discuss Winston Irvine, segregated prisons & Jonathan Anderson heads Dior

  8. Why do some men kill?

    Tara and Declan explore why 29 women have been murdered in Northern Ireland since 2020

  9. What the **** is happening in golf?

    Swearing, shouting, and lobbing pints – The Ryder Cup 2025

  10. What do you do if your child won’t go to school?

    Tara Mills & Declan Harvey talk about Northern Ireland’s “epidemic” of school avoidance

  11. What do kids really get up to on their phones?

    The State of Us has asked 240 kids about their online lives, the results may surprise you

  12. Was the PSNI spying on journalists?

    How police used covert powers to unlawfully try to uncover reporters’ sources

  13. Uniquely NI: How the Troubles still fuel homelessness

    How did NI's homeless people grow up? How did the Troubles shape their future?

  14. Uncovering the truth about Katie Simpson’s death

    The secret investigation that led to a murder trial that shook the equestrian community

  15. TV writer says pro-Israeli views shut out of the arts

    David Ireland on his loyalist roots, Israel, alcoholism & God

  16. Tuam: Ireland’s secret burial shame

    Hundreds of babies & children buried in a mass grave. What the excavation has discovered

  18. Trans rights, toilets and NI councils

    Tara Mills & Declan Harvey talk about NI local authorities and trans rights

  19. The State of Us Live: Blue Lights’ Michael Smiley and Joanne Crawford

    Michael Smiley and Joanne Crawford on season three of award-winning TV drama Blue Lights

  20. The State of Us Live Show: The career of a BBC Panorama reporter

    Darragh MacIntyre on Cpt Robert Nairac, Virginia Giuffre & BBC impartiality

  22. The State of Stormont

    Summer is over, it's back to the benches for our MLAs – how are relations on the hill?

  23. The State of Ballymena

    Tara and Declan revisit Ballymena with MP Jim Allister, two months after the riots

  24. The Noah Donohoe Inquest - Mother's 999 call

    Day 4 of the Noah Donohoe inquest hears evidence from his mother Fiona

  26. The latest Irish church abuse crisis

    Abuse and safeguarding failings: What's going on in Ireland’s Presbyterian Church?

  27. The income you need to survive in Northern Ireland

    It might be more than you think – and families are being squeezed

  28. The great big vaccine debate

    Vaccine rates in Northern Ireland are falling – why?

  30. The cocaine in Northern Ireland’s water

    New study highlights drugs – from caffeine to ketamine - lurking in our lakes and rivers

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