You might remember that BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan quit her job to become a slavery reparations campaigner. She’s the great, great, great, granddaughter of Lord Charles Trevelyan. Her family have already given more than £100,000 to the Caribbean island of Grenada to compensate for her ancestors’ role in the slave trade, and yesterday she was asked if they should also be giving money to Ireland because of his handling of the Irish famine.

Sean was joined by Liam Kennedy, Professor of History, Queen’s University Belfast and the author of The Death Census of Black ’47 to discuss...