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   Number 1: Episode 6: Life's Laundry

   Winner of the Radio Times Award for TV Moment of the Year - the final episode of series 1 brings a fairground ride of emotions. Pauline, Jeanie and Marie Louise examine those things that just aren't talked about and discuss the secrets that we all keep in our search for acceptance. What was it like to be gay in 90's Derry? From dirty laundry to job interview tips and workplace training the girls build up to their own very personal reactions to that final award winning scene. Shoes of the world has actually been written in The Habit - it actually exists https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/school-derry-girls-actually-brought-habit-magazine-back-perfect-article-617924 How to sort out your weekly wash…. just ask Pauline on our Facebook page… Gerry Anderson BBC Radio Ulster/ Radio Foyle legend - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p071wzdt/episodes/downloads Jimmy McShane https://www.derryjournal.com/news/brother-derry-pop-star-speaks-aids-stigma-and-devastation-173719 Armistad Maupin - Tales of the City https://www.armisteadmaupin.com/books-1 Derry Gay Pride https://www.facebook.com/foylepride/ Jimmy McShane https://www.derryjournal.com/news/brother-derry-pop-star-speaks-aids-stigma-and-devastation-173719 Chronicle of events in Ireland during the years of the troubles CAIN - 1998 https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch98.htm Lost Lives book (very hard to get hold off but good to know it’s out there https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/violence/mckittrick.htm Children of the Troubles by Joe Duffy and Freya McClements https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/book-tracing-the-186-children-who-died-in-the-troubles-launched-1.4053136 Radio Times TV moment of the year 2018 https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-12-31/top-tv-moments-2018/ A tribute album by various artists released after the Omagh bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Bridge_of_Hope For more information about the podcast, visit: www.thebiglight.com/talkingderrygirls Keep up to date with us on Twitter: @TBLderrygirls Check out our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/talkingderrygirls WATCH Derry Girls on Channel 4: https://www.channel4.com On... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

   July 28, 2020·1h 15min
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   Number 2: Episode 5: Holidays and Stowaways

   It's the 12th of July and the Derry Girls are leaving town. Pauline Jeanie and Marie Louise talk about the history of the 12th, being waved at by the big man off the telly and why a fortune teller had all the answers - maybe. They advise on taking the right purse and why packing a fruit cake in your hand luggage isn't recommended. They're having a whale of a time on the River Foyle, hitchhiking across the border and discussing the correct etiquette when invited to tea with paramilitaries. The Sash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sash Battle of the Boyne 1690: https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-the-Boyne The Orange Order: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18769781 The Apprentice Boys of Derry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apprentice_Boys_of_Derry http://www.thesiegemuseum.org/ BBC Sounds a short history of Ireland podcast - from around omnibus 20 builds up to the history of the Orange Order; Siege of Derry and the Apprentice Boys of Derryhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mnfpl Derry - Londonderry City of Culture 2013: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/29/derry-city-of-culture-reawakened-idealism Drumcree standoff 1995-2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drumcree_conflict Different Drums - Roy Arbuckle: http://www.differentdrums.net/players/roy-arbuckle/ Rev Ian Paisley: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/12/the-rev-ian-paisley Moby Dick - The Novel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick Dick - the whale in the Foyle! https://www.derryjournal.com/news/dopey-dick-has-retired-scotland-784232 Tommy Teirnan - Gerry Quinn: https://www.tommedian.com/ The Punt - currency in Ireland before the Euro.. http://www.irishcoinage.com/PICINDX4.HTM Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-11121336 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_loyalism Club Biscuits: https://mcvities.co.uk/products/club Bronagh Taggart - Nicola in Peggy’s diner: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0846499/ Terence Keeley - the wee ‘ra man in the boot: See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

   July 21, 2020·57min
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   Number 3: Episode 4: It's All A Load Of Walls

   Even if some of the hosts have eight bedrooms and a chocolate fountain, one wean from Chernobyl is not impressed and Granda Joe's new ‘friend’ has started a Cold War. Pauline, Jeanie and Marie Louise talk condoms, blow-dries and the downsides to a bomb damaged bargain. Pauline discovers why it really matters whether Granda Joe bought a cream horn or a cream finger and whether the Stations of the Cross is a suitable place for a date. The Walls of Derry: https://thederrywalls.com/ Why people starved within the walls - The Siege of Derry: https://www.culturenorthernireland.org/features/heritage/siege-derry The Undertones: http://theundertones.com/_/Home.html Snow - Informer (1992) - Great Irish name - Darrin Kenneth O’Brien. Well worth a read! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_(musician) https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/snow-interview-2019-informer-con-calma-837818/ Chernobyl Children in NI: https://en-gb.facebook.com/foyleandinishowencci/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-36140015 Pump Street and cream horns…https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/travel/ireland/derry-girls-guide-to-derry-murals-cream-horns-and-sr-michael-stout-1.3816482 ACTOR Diona Doherty (Katya): https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5189746/ Eurovision Song Contest - Cork 1993 - Ireland kept winning the contest which meant they had to host the next one! Ireland won 1993 so we were then treated to River Dance during the interval in 1994: http://www.millstreet.ie/blog/tag/eurovision-1993-memories Aran jumpers - they look good no matter what size you are - ignore Jeanie! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aran_jumper East Belfast - where Wee Clive was from, a really interesting history to this place: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/we-serve-up-50-fascinating-facts-about-east-belfast-30958166.html ACTOR: Anthony Boyle (David Donnelly): https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4996269/ Only a Woman’s heart - Eleanor McEvoy and Mary Black: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjQP9931NhU This is such a great story from Frank Crummey and his boot filled with condoms: See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

   July 14, 2020·57min
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   Number 4: Episode 3: Weeping Statues and Wee Dead Dogs

   Exam time leads to some new found religious devotions. Even the statues are moved. Or is it all a tall tale? Pauline, Jeanie and Marie Louise examine the phenomena of the "sexy priest", crushes on the older man and why burying a dog doesn't necessarily mean it's dead. There's bingo, bellies, dogsh*t, army manoeuvres and ironing. Plus the realisation that everyone's a liar. No offence! Ian McElhinney: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568400/ Ian's interview with The Derry Journal: https://www.derryjournal.com/whats-on/big-interview-game-thrones-and-derry-girls-actor-ian-mcelhinney-164921 Jonathan Swift: https://www.biography.com/scholar/jonathan-swift Ballinspittle Co Cork - moving statue RTE TV report: https://www.rte.ie/archives/collections/news/21203792-moving-statue-in-ballinspittle/ John Hume: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1998/hume/biographical/ Father Ted: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111958/ The Thorn Birds: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085101/ Fleabag: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5687612/ Derry Journal: https://www.derryjournal.com/ For more information about the podcast, visit: www.thebiglight.com/talkingderrygirls Keep up to date with us on Twitter: @TBLderrygirls Check out our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/talkingderrygirls WATCH Derry Girls on Channel 4: https://www.channel4.com On RTE (in Ireland): https://www.rte.ie/ Series 1 & 2 available on Netflix outside UK: https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/derry-girls-season-2-coming-to-netflix-in-august-2019/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

   July 08, 2020·57min
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   Number 5: Episode 2: What's Yours?

   What’s yours? Or maybe that should be ‘Do you want chips with that?’ Everyone gets enthusiastic about a school trip to Paris - sure their newly discovered trust funds will cover the cost - won’t they? We learn how a ban from the chip shop in ‘90s Derry was a worse fate than being tied up by masked men and how either would still be preferable to an evening with boring Uncle Colm. Pauline, Jeanie and Marie-Louise talk school assemblies, the realisation that we are not all equal and how Derry men embraced being stay at home dads, long before it was fashionable. Would you like salt and vinegar with that? Daniel O’Donnell: http://danielodonnell.org/ Woolworths - first store in UK: http://www.woolworthsmuseum.co.uk/aboutwoolies.html Wellworths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellworths Derry’s shirt factories: https://www.culturenorthernireland.org/features/heritage/shirt-industry Night Hawks - RTE: https://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/1024/826451-comedian-kevin-mcaleer/ Samuel Beckett: https://www.biography.com/writer/samuel-beckett Morecambe and Wise: http://www.morecambeandwise.com/viewpage.aspx?pageid=17 The Big Issue (North): Jamie Lee O’Donnell doesn’t talk about the corona stone in this interview but it’s still a crackin' read - https://www.bigissuenorth.com/issues/1343/ For more information about the podcast, visit: www.thebiglight.com/talkingderrygirls Keep up to date with us on Twitter: @TBLderrygirls Check out our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/talkingderrygirls WATCH Derry Girls on Channel 4: https://www.channel4.com On RTE (in Ireland): https://www.rte.ie/ Series 1 & 2 available on Netflix outside UK: https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/derry-girls-season-2-coming-to-netflix-in-august-2019/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

   June 30, 2020·54min
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