BBC Arts NI presents

Over the past few years BBC Arts NI has been supporting local female directing talent to bring their ideas to life in short, cinematic snippets. Marie-Louise Muir introduces this latest batch of five feisty film-makers.

This month's show features musicians from the worlds of jazz, classical, rock and trad partnering up to create and perform one-off performances of new or reversioned tracks. Including performances from Horslips and Ulaid, Barry Douglas and Martin Hayes, Dana Masters and The Bonnevilles, Moya Brennan, Ryan Vail and Elma Orkestra, and Phil Kieran, Karl McGuckin and Jolene O'Hara. Presented by Stephen McCauley.

Phil Taggart brings viewers up to speed on the best new talent of 2019. The programme features five artists working in ceramics, textiles, illustration, gaming and screenwriting.

After a break of nearly seven years Snow Patrol are back on the road. For a quarter of a century, from small gigs to the biggest arenas in the world, Northern Irish rockers Snow Patrol have lived life on tour buses, aeroplanes and in hotels with the pressures of fame and a fair share of personal ups and downs. Filmed ‘access all areas’ on tour from Dallas to Mexico City and New Orleans back to Belfast, this is a backstage pass to the real world of a touring rock juggernaut.

Rigsy and Gemma Bradley are live from Stendhal Festival 2019, with highlights from Hothouse Flowers, Kíla, Elma Orkestra and Ryan Vail, plus Cormac Neeson’s entire set live from the Karma Valley Stage

From the forest to the main stage, a celebration of music and arts from one of Northern Ireland’s most family-friendly festivals, Stendhal.

Thin Lizzy and Black Star Riders front man, Ricky Warwick plays in session for BBC Arts NI.

Oliver Jeffers is a name known to millions across the globe. A massively successful and award winning children’s picture-book maker, he’s sold over ten million books which have been translated into over forty languages, such as ‘How to Catch a Star’, ‘Lost and Found’, and ‘The Incredible Book Eating Boy’ ‘Lost and Found’ has already been turned into an award-winning animation and earlier this year Apple announced they would be working with Oliver on another of his books at the launch of their new video streaming service. He’s also made a promotional video for U2 and did the artwork for their ‘Innocence and Experience’ tour. Bono, along with numerous other high profile names, is a fan. Oliver is also a prolific and collectable fine artist, hungrily experimenting with media and form, and in recent times has become politically vocal through his regular postings on Instagram. Born in Australia Oliver spent his childhood and young adulthood in Belfast before moving to New York around 12 years ago. His workshop is in ‘The Invisible Dog’, an artist studio collective in Brooklyn, in an area where he lives with his wife Suzanne and their two children. This is a very important year for Oliver, with the release of his latest book ‘The Fate of Fausto’ and the opening of several international solo exhibitions.

Stephen McCauley presents fresh music talent including acoustic sounds from JC Stewart, R&B-infused beats from Dena Anuk$a, electro-pop from Alice La, alt-rock from New Pagans and Wild Youth, plus rising stars from the classical world.