Audience: Library staff dealing with collections, archivists, library staff dealing with outreach

Award-winning freelance journalist Bairbre Flood, is in conversation with Helen Fallon, Deputy Librarian, Maynooth University on the topic of using library collections as the basis of documentaries and podcasts.

Bairbre produced the documentary “Silence Would be Treason” for BBC Radio 4. This is based on the MU Ken Saro-Wiwa Archive

She has created several podcasts, including the Maynooth University Ken Saro-Wiwa School Poetry Competition podcasts

Bairbre has produced radio documentaries for BBC World Service, Newstalk and community radio stations, and has a special interest in migration and the stories of people who are seeking refuge, and how journalists can work together to challenge some of the current narratives around refugees.