Episode 2 of The Dead Cool Show where Ronan Leonard brings you a bunch of recordings of songs by people whose 'deathday' is sometime this week at some point in History... and weaves a tapestry of ideas, facts and connections.

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A choc-a-bloc show this week, subjects covered include:

Ireland’s first theatre; 

the first talkie oscar winner; 

the term ‘gaslighting’; 

TWO mentions of Christmas; 

the first live album to be recorded in Ireland &

Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother

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People Mentioned: 

Alan Wilson

Anita Page

The Clancy Brothers

Edmund Gwenn

Ernest Tubb

Gene Wilder

Gilda Radner

Ingrid Bergman

Joan Rivers

John Lumsden

John Ogilby

Lee Scratch Perry

Mary Ward

Max Bygraves

Michael K. Williams

Nico

Oliver C***well

Randy Weston

Ric Segreto

Sarah Harding

Seamus Heaney

Sterling Morrison

Steve Irwin

Tom Wilson

Tom Fogerty

Tommy Makem

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