Forty years since The Troubles began in Northern Ireland, a lot of people on the mainland still have only a faint understanding of how they started or why they dragged on for so long.

Belfast-born Eamonn Holmes assembles some well-known faces here to share their experiences of those times - people such as comedian and presenter Patrick Kielty, whose father, a Catholic businessman, was murdered by Loyalist Paramilitaries.

In a rare interview on the subject, Patrick recalls the day he got a call from Mo Mowlam telling him his father's killers were about to be released.

James Nesbitt, Andrea Catherwood, Charlie Lawson (best known as Corrie's Jim McDonald) and Gloria Hunniford - then a young reporter, tell their stories, too, while boxer Barry McGuigan recalls bringing the two communities (briefly) together.