We've asked two academics – a professor of politics with a background in Derry and a professor of modern history with a speciality in Irish military history – to look at Jimmy McGovern's drama-documentary Sunday, about the events of 30 January 1972 that have come to be known as 'Bloody Sunday'. We were particularly interested in their views of drama as 'history'.

Both academics were asked identical questions. Click on the links under each question to see their answers.

And if you want to tell us what you think of Jimmy McGovern's Sunday – or anything else that you've watched on TV – check out ThinkTV: a new website all about your views on TV.

Professor Paul Arthur
Born and raised in the Bogside area of Derry where Bloody Sunday occurred, Paul Arthur is now professor of politics and course director of the Graduate Programme in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Ulster. His first book, The People's Democracy (1974), dealt with the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland; his latest is Special Relationships: Britain, Ireland and the Northern Ireland problem (2001). In 1997-8, he was senior fellow in the Jennings Randolph Program for International Peace at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington DC.

Professor Keith Jeffery
Keith Jeffery is professor of modern history at the University of Ulster. He is co-author of Northern Ireland since 1968 (with Paul Arthur) and A Military History of Ireland (with Thomas Bartlett) and author of Ireland and the Great War.