Liveline host Joe Duffy

Liveline.

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Joe Duffy spoke on Mornings With Dave Fanning on RTÉ Radio One this morning to talk about his new six-part TV show, which will be called Call Back.

“It’s like Reeling In The Liveline, trying to trace back what happened various people’s stories, projects that were helped, that were supported, people that came on the programme over the years, what happened them after the programme, what happened, the issues they raised, what happened the projects that Liveline got involved in.

I’ve been pushing the idea for a few years but now it looks like its day has come, we’re making a six-part series. We’ve made a pilot. We had to make a pilot first and showed it to the powers-that-be and they liked it and they’ve commissioned six of them and they’ll be going out between now and Christmas.”

“The nature of Liveline, as you know, is a very rolling, very energetic daily programme, subjects change within the programme, subjects change within the week and sometimes, when one issue is raised and people ring and say we’ll help, we’ll do this, we’ll try and get someone home from America, we’ll try and repatriate this, we’ll try and help that A&E unit, we’ll try and help that family in whatever, by the time the next Liveline comes around, it’s moved on to, as always happens, to more urgent topics, so it’s a simple thing, people are always stopping me saying, ‘whatever happened the family of’, ‘whatever happened that house you built’…”

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