The Department of Health has apologized again to those who are waiting too long but says demand for care is continuing to strip the system the be amazed Dr Carson is a consultant radiologist she says politicians need to step up to make a change certainly we need to do something because we're tumbling into her around the situation we're working and working and working and nothing's being done were in a terrible situation so I would welcome and so would I meet the I'm a member welcome. Everybody who can address these issues for grass for a man shot to shot in the chest by a soldier as he tried to run to safety on Bloody Sunday is to receive 350000 points in compensation following a settlement in the High Court 68 year old Giuffre was compensated for injuries received and fulls allegations that had been an armed terrorist when paratroopers opened fire in Derry in January 972 his lawyers described it as a blatant malicious and I create his lie which persisted until he was publicly exonerated more than 40 years later the Department of Education has revealed that 9 schools here have night closed temporarily due to a winter vomiting bug Dr Philip Vale from the public health agency says they're seeing more cases of it in schools this winter than in previous years it is fair to say there is perhaps more than schools at this year's the me of seeing a previous years but every year we do see transcriptions in schools on our medicines or to see them stay off school if you're sick wash your hands in the gutter we can stop the spread of the fact the public health agency isn't and that the school flu vaccination program which had been delayed due to distribution problems has recommenced the p.h.s. Says there will be enough stop to continue as planned and that health trusts will not take over the like of those schools who have yet to receive their vaccines. The police have arrested 2 men aged $33.59 in connection with the matter of Malcolm McLaren in Waring's town in August the 54 year old was fined dead in his car behind us at the station in the time the father of 3 had been shot up to 6 times at close range. Do you pay deputy leader has dismissed opinion polls predicting a clear overall majority for the conservatives in the general election launching the party's manifesto Nigel Dobbs said similar projections were made last time when the election ended in the hung parliament and he said the d.p.p. Would still be major players in the next Parliament whatever happens here's our political correspondent Karen Gordon the u.p.s. Role supporting the Conservative government didn't stop the prime minister signing an e.u. Was told daily it can't support now it's facing opinion polls predicting a clear majority for Boris Johnson which would mean its ability to reship Bracks that could disappear the deputy leader Nigel dog said that whatever happened the d.p. Would still have a major role to play at Westminster but while the party is in dispute with Boris Johnson or enforced a says it could never support Jeremy Corben as Prime Minister we have been very clear that we will not be supporting a Jeremy carbon lead ministration it would be bad for northern I don't think it would be bad for the United Kingdom in terms of economically in terms of from a defense point of view and of course from various people who have been he has associated with in the past so there are many many reasons why we couldn't support a Jeremy coronet administration as well as one thing the Dail to be changed the manifesto called for storm to be normalized with just us of the petition of concern and reform of the civil service the assembly it says should change recent reforms of abortion laws u.k. Covenant meeting should be held at least once a year in Belfast and it calls for the abolition of the t.v. License that was a nice night at the latest in the weather here's to the hast. It's going to be quite chilly this evening and overnight with the risk of some frost on the or patch of ice forming by tomorrow morning as temperatures tonight widely fall close to freezing perhaps just below in some countryside areas so a chilly and frosty start for some tomorrow but overall a fine day for the our doors lots of dry weather lots of sunshine a small risk of the on shore on the coast b.b.c. Nice so. B.b.c. Radio. Travel. Rush hour delays are lingering on the m one the m 5 on the sin the bypass and on the road it's also busy on the West Street and say my part of the grove hell road remains closed after an earlier crash topics being diverted at the road the road. Between junction 13 and junction 14 diversions will be employed on the road will be closed from 11 pm until tomorrow morning and southern end reporting. Trouble b.b.c. Radio. Hello good evening and welcome to the ticket I'm Kathy Caxton as the woodcutter said to his wife not many chopping days left till Christmas panto season is upon us if you were to see if you didn't get a chance to show. It is to be disappointed if you didn't I'll be talking to the punter writer Brian Turner a. Guy the writer and performer Jonah has been eavesdropping on Belfast and what he's learned meanwhile our film critic Brian Henry Markram will be trying to make me cry Liam Neeson. Starring Ordinary Love and Its nice start for a delicious murder mystery we'll also hear about a new musical show called heart of winter there is just one tiny snowflake Heidi. We have I have. From the world. And alternative gifts from the poet. And a list cast and not an ugly sister in sight. First we welcome a guitarist from Germany with us a guitarist she's more of a magician really she creates incredible science she's a composer and singer and here is Jackie with space some time. If the. Most space flight through space. Most space. There is. To look and see if you. Will never leave them. There in the. Woods. The most is a religious concern. To question you love this. Club. But in St. Louis Mo says. Most. Most cases. These. So. It's Smithson. Own thing and then claims there's someone who told the book. Dude. Who said. Jackie back with space and time Jackie it's hard to believe it's just one person playing the instrument because there's all sorts of noises the marching from your guitar it's a particular style of playing that you do what is it cold it's called fingerstyle guitar and what does that involve exactly basically comes from. Folk guitar country Travis picking American style of playing but these days it has evolved into this percussive thing where we also use. Different parts of the body Yeah and I've seen I've seen you on You Tube playing basically but just one hand and you're managing to make a whole kind of signed so incredible Do you teach yourself or how did you learn Well I started teaching myself just watching videos on the Internet and just experimenting and then eventually I took lessons from some bigger guys over Skype and then met them in person and that's how I learned was very modern Jackie I mean you know you created beautiful clips on You Tube which she could all see so obviously sort of social media and the internet have been really important for you in getting your music out there not only learning but actually sort of letting other people hear your music. It's kind of. Mean I have to admit I totally like part of that weird Facebook situation which I feel weird about these days but when I was 17 years old it did definitely help me he's so much to just reach people on the other side of the world and talk to. People in Australia or South Africa that listen to music you know must be wonderful and they do find you able to learn from other guitarists still deaf of their Of course I mean you know jealous we're so pleased that you came to join us in Belfast tonight Jackie's playing tomorrow night as part of guitar night at the Crescent Arts Center in Belfast and she'll be performing alongside Gary Loveman has another amazing guitarist from Belfast that's at the island Arts Center in Lisbon on Saturday night at 8 o'clock now as most of the punters across northern and open this week I thought I'd take the opportunity to share some of my favorite pump coccyx with you so our film buff friend who Martin is here to help me read you Brian already off you go sorry I'm really at Kathy I've been to the opticians he just told me I'm colorblind colorblind Yes It came as a real bolt out of the orange. Ok tumble way to that's granted more of that later please don't turn off not Jonah was is a writer and performer has a new show called small tales from talk time talk time being Belfast and I believe you've noticed too that people in this time like We Chat where you know we're not backwards in coming forwards you might say. So I basically of the Son Kali knock of going to self and awkward conversations with people as well as being an incorrigible eavesdropper all my life so I decided to take those 2 things monetize the issue so well to what kind of things do you have I mean what sort of stories are there Crikey. Everything from being in a taxi we've all been in a taxi or bracing yourself for I don't know some horrendous reassume or something. The person surprises you you can find it in a year to rethink your whole lot of show to humanity and you know it's it's over it's basically the conceit is it's a day in my life in Belfast in the interactions I have that people. Start getting the boss in the work in the morning then going to work having a coffee chatting to the postman which I might read if you're very. And then at the end of the section called my mom vs good my mother is a bizarre force of nature who somehow manages to make every situation that she's involved with slightly more entertaining than it needs to be off them so yeah basically and also the reason doing the show was my last show I think I thought he was all about growing up here but maybe he was very self centered shall we say critic called it solipsistic but that's jealous younger brothers for you so this is more like not so much a love letter of affection a pestle to the city which I grew up and we'd love to hear an example Ok Right well this one's called This is a little this actually is a bonus track you might say I'm going tomorrow so we have time I think we call that an exclusive if that's all right with the record breaking ranks with everybody had record. This was called nicht in the hands of this morning the very nice woman in the clothing vendors place had a bit of a struggle spelling my surname old school style she needed my film him to make out a ticket for my garments my favorite jackets a fine blue cord thing which I had left arm hanging off at the same something I put them into fights drunken shoulder dancing I did what I always knew when off of it made him say Joseph brightly then joke with them that this is where it gets tricky it's not really tricky it's only 5 bloody letters but you know I don't comment slowly spelt like not laws I've learnt that's all we see is valuable time and energy well almost always I always begin and for November a w a n n this is when I got to Zyad her finger hovered on certainly over the keyboard and decided that x. Was the more salient choice I began again apologizing for my old and a clumsy attempt to put her age she apologized for being full mixed and front of them had begun again brightly a w a Zyad again her internal operating system refused to accept said as a viable option and again she opted for x. This help on the 3rd time she was getting very flustered by now and I was a little embarrassed as we so many times you can say and for them for like sounding like a pattern I was in primary school teacher on the 4th go we got it's almost high fives are in relief she begun to the satisfaction of a job well done that's nothing I reassured her the b.b.c. Once sent me a check addressed to Joseph news and front of him for you you said I'm not sure not she seemed puzzled as if she couldn't imagine anything like that it's all they'll be templates love she said smiling politely obviously came to fast track this conversation to the nub of the matter I smiled back and paid her and she told me the coat would be ready for Thursday pretty fast for a mentor so I thought of the way at the door. It's fantastic I think now wax is about actually I think she quite well actually got a check I suppose. How did you how do you remember all the stories like to come he would look around you might know and that's really how of photo like memory we just recall ridiculous conversations and sentences and which especially the type of dog and I will quote you back what you said specifically 3 weeks ago it's like me Oh no impossible to launch a long stand so yeah I just kind of always been fascinated but by a language and I people who Belfast are very well were you think braids were kind of the way we were quite. Remarkably brusque yes but also quite affectionate those 2 things come together because quite a singular study I think yes we're quite scary as well and will leave us where yes I miss the tone both of us were in that one yes it was very kind of you just going to kind of the tale of my when my partner Jim 1st came to Belfast I'm at my parents he's from England and my mum was sort of talking to some of the things that we might do while he was here and he kind of looked horrified at one point and thought she was this where East woman in Belfast because later we explained that she had suggested the folk and Transport Museum. So yeah it's not referred to by its other name in our family. Anyway do you know as the show small tales from Talk Time is on Friday night at The Strand arts center in east Belfast and there may be a little bit of language but nothing to gather is over so it says on the website but you can. Judge for yourselves Thanks Joe and I someone else who's American storytelling and the rhythms of speech is more of a Donaldson She's a poet teacher and mentor she's published several poetry collections and short stories and then news just announced today in fact about an hour or so ago she's one of the recipients of the Arts Council's major individual awards M.I.A.'s which is the most prestigious award that they gave and the other recipients are the composers Neil Martin and Deirdre Gribben and the journalist Susan McKay this is great news Maury you must be delighted I'm absolutely delighted it's fantastic news yes very very happy so this is a grant that the Arts Council gave for you to work towards a specific project do you know at this point what the project is I do hoping to work on a new collection which the same month which will be about mothers and daughters. I suppose it's because. I'm a mother myself I've been a daughter I am a daughter I have 2 daughters and very recently a new granddaughter. But also because it's a fascinating relationship I think it can be a very intense relationship between mothers and daughters. You know having talked to friends so many variations on it and so many. So many stories involved that I'm really looking forward to kind of exploring some of those stories so what I mean Harwood what formalistic of you've got this idea of mothers and daughters are you starting right from scratch is that just a concept at the moment which you then will develop is well I do have quite a lot of poems that I have written that my mother features then. So it is as a kind of a theme that has been in my work so I'm wanting to develop it but at the moment I'm doing lots of reading and researching and looking at myths and looking at the science in terms of the idea of Mitochondrial Eve and the idea is a kind of much a lineal societies and high that affects society of all inheritance comes down through the maternal line yeah what differences does that make so it's wonderful to have the time to be able to explore all these ideas and think about them now you're a great one for collaboration more you've had your fingers in all sorts of time I know that you've worked with the Tele theatre company a couple of times yes like those projects really interesting like oh great fun working with big telly. One of my collections was called Miracle for it and it was a bite really freaks and circus performers and all kinds of people on the edges of society and a friend of mine Bernie McGill the novelist knew the big tell a we're working on a show called freak show and she put prison touch and I wrote I wrote some part of the show up at the port rush giant tests that are so big telly then use some of the poems from Miracle for it as I love. Your work and have a different context was brilliant saying that come together and saying hi that whole kind of improvise ation who says work that big telly are so good at it as well so it was fantastic when I see in front of you have a book when you're collect. It's called the goose trail you should be able to read something for us yes well I picked this because I know there's a lot of jolliness going around at the minute was pantos and things and. I hit winter. I'm not very fond of the dark days atolls So this is a very short little poem which is just called some of the things I have planted. The magnolia the twisted his will the ruin the cherry standing beside them in these dark days I feel their tremble with the bud to come I hear the snow drops and irises nicest sight chill it's sharpening their green blades color blues itself and roots and rhizomes a bubbling vibration that I feel in my bones and I see to say to winter say. It's obvious you're not going to grieve and you're not a fan of winter either though of autumn is the cold season or yes I'm back to so whatever yeah it's not everybody's favorite time of year that is so true and there's so much sort of false Merryman going around and talking of Christmas another thing which drives people nuts is Christmas shopping Christmas gifts and you're running out a very interesting workshop a bite Well an alternative way to give someone a gift Yes Well I mean I think everyone gets a bit from to get this time of the time of the people are running around madly buying things so I thought it would be a nice idea to have a workshop look around I suppose that gifts and giving and what that actually can mean with the idea that people will come out of the workshop maybe with a poem together as a gift to someone and let's talk about stocks to be honest well no I had to pare this supposed but just as a kind of a way to take a couple of hours I'd of all the madness of Christmas and sit down and have a think about what giving and what you know what you'd like to be given and what people really appreciate being given rather than kind of a lot of the the frankly the taps that gets bought because most time is there I mean if I were to come to your workshop do I just make do I need to have an idea do I need to have a person in mind or can I just come along with a blank notebook and none of them was a blank notebook We'll look at some poems and throw around some ideas and hopefully by the end of it everyone will have something that they can take away with. Sounds wonderful Well congratulations again Myron your award Wrangler thrilled for you and the gifts and giving workshop with more Adonal since more Donalson is on Monday the 16th of December at the Crescent Arts Center in Belfast as between 6 and 9 in the evening if you'd like to get a more heartfelt and extremely eco friendly gift this Christmas so Maria while you're here would you oblige me with another joke place with a mustache Yes I know you know. I miss my husband I used to rub grease all over his back to make him feel better Oh really what happened he went downhill really fast. Now let's bring a bit of class to proceedings John of lumber obviously a is one of the world's leading classical pianist he's performing with the Ulster orchestra tomorrow night and we are very lucky to have him here in the studio tonight at the Radio Ulster piano I do hope it's true John f. La Here he is with the b.c.s. Left field. The other. 6 gone. You know probably we say thank you so much at all so we're joined by the conductor Tito manual cease in charge of proceedings tomorrow night welcome to Belfast thank you was a reader have you been before yeah I've been with the orchestra before about the year but a year ago Ok And what about you show off years ago Ok so you've been here before and you know the whole so to do can you tell us what's on the program tomorrow night yeah we're doing a. Sort of a bohemian influenced program ever doing overture which the dances of matter sex by called I we're doing with John of the bar talk 3rd Piano Concerto and then the divorce 8th Symphony on the 2nd half so it's Central European fame very much yes it's a really fun program though so show off line do that as a particular favorite of yours definitely and you believe that he's a little bit under rated Is that right or should he well he People are afraid of him I don't know why some wonderful music it's a sublime music it's the music of life is the music full of corals of with him there is some night music in the middle section it's incredible music it's needs a little challenge from the audience point of view because his language is not obviously very simple although his 3rd concept was probably one of his simple piece that's where last piece he wrote actually didn't finish even the piece the 17 lost balls were empty and he didn't live long so a lot of indications they left I had the great fortune to learn these concepts always the journey is to actually premiered it. Wow and I am very proud that my we are speaking about daughters early on that my 2 daughters are friends because their mother he's hanging and they claim to have the title of the most feel of all French musician I mean leaving once so gosh you've got a real connection then with that. If it is that it to do if not you know for not really begun to classical music it's interesting that there's quite a big folk influence and to well certainly could I and talk and divorce I can absolutely that's whether that's the special thing about actually could die and bartók were close with each other in fact the 2 of them actually spent a lot of time going into the villages in the towns in the fields and actually collecting these wonderful for the wonderful folk music of their of their region tens of thousands of so many things and so in the music and especially in the quote unquote dyes music he really used he really quoted those folk melodies verbatim and so things that folks didn't hear in the concert hall very often bartók Our made it really special really this really his own and change the language so you really hear some really interesting harmonies and interesting things divorce I was influenced by this is well and he did a lot of that and he actually ended up coming to my home country divorce I could actually teaching us in America to look for folk our own folk music in the music that is our own classical music in the music that it's folk music so he was actually a big part of that too I mean it's interesting because I mean we have a huge folk tradition hair so something probably we would find you know very relatable do you find audiences different when you look to your shuttles online you travel all over the world is extraordinary how do you find things change as you go to different parts of the world with audiences it's changed. For example. People that's in South America people can be rather noisy during the concert but when the music is beautiful they stop and then they're very into. Geoff and they are they all saw quite that sometimes you wonder if you are not on stage or or you instead of some kind of these that they gave to the people you know in case people cough I have read that maybe they gave them knife so you know it's Ok if you go on. And. But actually no it's wonderful because every By traveling you meet you meet new friends you meet new new wonderful musician like this afternoon we had we stayed Oh wonderful station working station on back talk and here we are you know American. Spending American contractor French pennies playing in Belfast and music and try to have the right amount of public eye and it's. Great it's a perfect and spicy mix well at that concert with the Ulster orchestra is tomorrow night in the Ulster hole at 745 and I thank you so much for coming to tell us about it if you're listening to the take it is 28 minutes to 7 I'm Kathy Cox and this is the place for the best local comedy music theater and general crack every Thursday night on radio all star on b.b.c. Radio 4 between 6 and 7 still to come tonight we've got the films with Brian Henry Martin and the search for the last new flick any musical comedy from the lingo theater company. But 1st show if while you're here I wonder would you help us with another pantomime joke of course I must say that my wife is not with me that's why I'm allowed to say this does joke that I and we understand which makes it even worse I mean you know Ok so I was married 16 times relation wife lost 16 yes. For richer for poorer for better and for worse. Excello. Thank you so much so panto's Let's get there let's go there and I'll be telling you about some of the show's coming to a theater near you in a few minutes time but 1st he wanted to find out what it is about Tonto that makes it such an engineering and popular form of entertainment Well after a bit of new leader on the Internet we had gold we find Brian laugh a comedy writer and podcast or he's written 6 full come to mind scripts but you've been performing from Dr Marty to Southampton to Puerto ferry I asked him if he like most of us was introduced to come to mind as a child a tended to be dragged along to shows that my uncle was in my uncle was a singer in the sixty's you know back in group or so used to be the backing group on things like the Cliff Richard show and the Cilla Black Hole so we'd get pulled in Christmas to some quite big times as I mean the 1st one I remember was actually the Palladium. The one that sticks in my mind was Norman Wisdom and the lady I'm playing buttons so yeah I mean I was in immersed in it from a very early age where you instantly and tranced by it absolutely yes I mean I went to a theatre school as a technical student so I spent at least 4 or 5 of my teenage years sit in the lighting boxes and climbing up ladders and and working on shows So yes before I got into t.v. Which is what I ultimately did I spent a lot of time in dusty old theatres and Pam too is in complete contrast to the other work that you do the comedy writing and so forth so what made you make that leap from sort of enjoying panto and working on as a young man to actually writing them as you say a lot of the stuff I wrote for Channel 4 was quite like no it content but it was always in the back of my mind to write a patent because I enjoyed that genre so much and I think what finally got me to do it was my daughter became old enough to actually be in primetime shows and I went to see her in Dunstable in a production of Beauty and the based and. When you get that close to it when your own kids start to be in shows then I thought woman Ok now is the time so I've picked my 5 year plan to which was allowed to voice has been allowed in and I thought well I'll see if I can do this and we were lucky enough in the 1st year to get a Latino in 2 or 3 venues so inspired by that of the next 2 or 3 years I wrote one a year you mentioned a lot and then I that is by far the most popular one on this year in Northern Ireland there are 3 or 4 productions on there and why do you think it works especially And why do some of them worked like Dick Whittington and allowed in and Snow White Why did those work and others fall away when I was trying to decide which ones to Roy I picked while I call the big 5 and from a boat down to Aladdin Sleeping Beauty Cinderella witch hunt and Jack in the bin stalk so during the course of the next couple of years I worked my way through writing notes but I've always loved the lighting because of the Jamie you know because you can do so many things with the training as Robbie Williams proved him to he did lots of stage tricks can you what are the classic ingredients then to a panto that there's certain things that must be present aren't there I think the most important thing is the have to stick to the story you have to keep it traditional because that's what the the mums and the kids and the grandparents want and you have to deliver something that will entertain all of those 3 generations because you are going to have an audience that's a mixture of children and their parents and usually the grandparents there was well it has to be Pisces go move along it can't hang about go on with it make it too long and of course audience participation is massively important if you were to see a pencil and you didn't get a chance to shout out we are in jail more oh no it isn't your money back wouldn't you yes exactly you'd be disappointed if you didn't get that so that's probably one of the most important things of all bowing the bad they get the audience involved there's got to be a messy saying Yes Les There's a Max Foster ties or some yes there's got to although I have to say. And safety these days you've got to be very careful because you can't get someone to put God goggles on before you shove a cup to find their face you can't want to have a deal with it so the more you know. There's also something you can't throw sweets out the audience Africanus Oh yeah I mean so the whole audience participation think it's largely diluted it's got to be a scary scene so you've got to have guards and if you haven't got a strong value and a strong baddie it's basically those 2 characters that hold it together you can get away with cars the very mixed talent as long as you've got a really strong Di and a really strong why do you think those are the those are the main things that spring to mind another ingredient and often pantomimes is a topical jokes you need to have some references to what's going on at the moment so I was wondering when you're writing your pantomime scripts are there things that can where you can insert you know local place names or Breck set or whatever it is that you want to tell jokes a bite Well I definitely wouldn't do any breaks it. Is I think people are sick of those No I think what I try and those are trying like the references as generic as possible so that they've got time decent shelf life yeah that's important because otherwise you'd be rewriting the whole thing all the time when we license the shows we say to people you know we're happy for you to put in like references within within reason and now and again I think I did there were a fresh on Aladdin which is now about 3 years old and just tweaked a few things that were very specific references mostly to b.b.c. Product that's probably I mean you do get a laugh when you talk about the towel Jason Dr Yeah because there's so in the public imagination taking the mickey out of things like that usually goes very well with the old you would think of it as a very British thing I suppose pantomime going back to them the musical days I suppose but actually Europeans have been performed in various places in the world they have I looked this up just before I came in here and in 20161 of my shows was on in Vancouver British Columbia last. Version of Mr Scrooge rubber thing called Mr Scrooge the printer that was on in do boy in the United Arab Emirates if they make it there do you know I've no idea I don't always get feedback but I know that this year we've got 2 productions of Cinderella in Texas not one but wow and I've made them promise that they will send me all the recording because I want to hear what the ugly sisters sound like with a Texan. Oh you know I was on for the past and of course you've had a couple on here in Northern Ireland yes in Puerto ferry I often talk about a little Russian as being a good thing to use in a parent and my parents as we don't buy the potential of players important very very very interesting in itself Cinderella and jackets to with the last couple years. Brand off there what she may come through sweets at kids' heads any more things I want to yesterday and if you fancy staging a panto next year you could do worse than have as your bible the Big Book of panto scripts by Bryan laugh and thanks to Brian for joining us earlier today from London now that's put you in the mood for some safety conscious family fun here are some of the punters already on or opening in the coming week or so in Belfast there's beauty in the bass to the opera Haas the frozen princess at the waterfront Peter Pan at the Lyric Aladdin is all over the place at the Beaver Studio Theatre in Belfast at the Playhouse in Derry Londonderry at the Courtyard theatre and the alley Theatre in Toronto also in Derry is Snow White at the millennium for a beauty in the bases of the marketplace theatre Norma person boat support Rushton whole and Sleeping Beauty Is that like in Valley Island we're going to have missed some but as they say check local press for details and you can award yourself a 1000 points if you spotted the background music there it's the zoo tones always right behind you I chose that specially and I'm feeling pretty pleased with myself I've got to say but I plan to doesn't exactly float your boat Don't worry there are other Christmas shows a bite including heart of when to winter sorry heart of winter lingo theatre companies magical new musical show which celebrates family friendship and the season of winter might not be one for you more. So here to give us a quick taste of it are Patrick Lynch and Francesca Allen. Once that that are you weren't meant to see it it's your Christmas present Sally thanks Dad You shouldn't have been in now oh no we'll wait till Christmas that we said we weren't going to get Christmas presents this year I know but it's just something I've found and fixed up something very useful I didn't get anything for you there's only one thing I want for Christmas Sally some lovely rain dad you didn't spend a lot on the Christmas present Did you know you don't need to worry about money Sally all I need to do is sell a few umbrella's a movie Ok but it never rains dad. Come on in it's bedtime for you it's too hot to sleep dad you know woman maybe I can help you I could read to your Christmas story the one that you wrote I won't read it as well as you but I'll try my best. One sup on a time there was a law. Which had lost its winter. The sun was from morning till night and the only thing that fell from the blue sky was dust. It was hot it was hot even at night. If winter didn't come back nobody would ever sleep again. But there was just one little snowflake left. Hiding in a cloud. It was hiding because it was afraid to melt in the sun. If only somebody could find that last snowflake. And play with it. And look after it and make it grow. It would turn into a 1000000 little snow. And we could all have the Christmas we want. But until somebody finds that last no flake. It will just keep getting hotter and hotter. And hotter. Until nobody will buy another ombre ever again. It will get better soon dad the clouds will come tomorrow and then it will rain you'll see. A better Sally because if it doesn't we'll be finished you know. I mean what is that last no flake waiting for maybe we need to go out and find it it's out there somewhere waiting for us. It is just a story Sally a lovely story that you wrote but just a story stories do come true sometimes yes sometimes Sweet Dreams Sunday night dad. Thank you Patrick Lynch and Francesca Allen and oh I understand I think. I think Francesca Allen is another reality t.v. Show is that where I've got that from so it's already thinking and Cheska Now tell us Patrick you've co-written the show and obviously you're talk about the last new flick and the winter disappearing there in disappearing you know is climate change what it's all about it's not really what it's all about this show started because we had an image of a mattress made of snow if you can imagine like a lovely fluffy square mattress and just sink into it and we had this lot of our shows start with these random images and we worked out oh if we make that mattress with layers then we can have you can just pull it out and it'll cover the whole stage very quickly. And really that's how we started to make it so we. Made this visual sequence which last about 5 minutes and it's a sequence that involves the children coming up on to the stage and helping us and then we thought Ok we have to write another 45 minutes of show Ok so the previous 45 minutes really is all about this and I had the idea of this last no flick and what would happen if there was only one spoke because as long as there is still it's not like you can you can make some more because there's still hope it's the seat from which Winter could grow again so it's a lovely idea Francesca there are songs in the show when it's suitable for the whole family isn't it yes it is that we've obviously had the last couple of days this goes audiences in who've been delightful absolutely lovely and then obviously from the weekend on which we've also got the family would say there's there's always jokes in there for the adults as well any good children share has to have checks for the adults as well thing is a little heart of winter is at the Queen's hole in the nards at 2 o'clock and 7 o'clock on Saturday it's at the Alley Theater instrument on Sunday at 2 o'clock at the strudel Arts Center and on the 13th and 14th of December and there are other Irish dates in December details on the lingo theatre company website. That's l y n g l thanks very much now its time on the tickets for the film's brand Henry Martin is here Brian you've got a couple of fagot ones for us this weekend where are you going to take us 1st well we have to start with the film Born and bred in Belfast it's ordinary love certificate 12 a it's from Belfast filmmakers Glen Les Byrne And Lisa brass the sa who brought us good vibrations in 2013 but this was a very different vibes avoided limb Neeson and Liz the amount of all played Tom and Joan there and they're like a normally married couple who have a little bit of grief in the family because their daughter has died and then sadly Joan has breast cancer. What's going to happen kind of comes from. Just some points from the fact that you don't know you come to the us and know where you're. Going to. See your doctor and you don't have to be a doctor to notice things like that they should. I know that 3 is closer to 5 and I know I could press count Ok but what I'm going to. Move. Correct because the country I'm asking because you don't know. That's not an answer. If you had breast cancer which I don't think you do if. You 1st. We were very very honest that we found the 1st that's was going to happen. And these films are you know it's a difficult subject matter it's obviously it's a you know it's a sad film in a way yes and the screenplay is by own McCafferty the p.s. This is his 1st screenplay he's a very famous playwright you know why is that script Rice Well it's a very personal story to him and it's very partial for that reason and it's a story of survival it's what happens to a couple you know when there are like to like kind of the gather and then when she goes through breast cancer she becomes one and then they become true again so it's a very partial film and it's a by the extraordinary in in the ordinary in the every day and it's all about the performances I mean Liam Neeson I mean like kind of this is Schindler's Liam This is back to the Liam Neeson that we kind of love kind of like kind of away from the action hero Liam But Lesley Manville is so partial in this film it's an extraordinary performance it's heartbreaking and it's all about strength of character with Liam is it is it fair to say or is it is it not he'd say that it's not you know he's Tang in his own accent you know he's he's playing us it's a Northern Irish man makes a big difference that was fine but he's putting the sort of transatlantic clear not just on the soft per that he has that ball Ameena drawl that he has that works so well but it's. The universal this story and it's just a great love story and it's beautiful and sad and sweet and who hasn't been affected by cancer and really everyone should go and see it's not came out strong recommendation shot in Belfast as you mention it's also set here do you spend like we do with things about us to spend the film kind of noticing the location finally not the filmmakers have been very clever and shot in or out of unusual locations so we don't get kind of caught out by it that's not the way to drive the normal. You know yeah so it works wonderfully So if you're not a fan of weepies would you still that I mean I don't like these films that are difficult emotional situations I just can't bear them but do you think I would you know will I be able to cope if I want to I think you would be able to cope because it is about survival and it is a boy what happens to people when they feel big every day questions that happens you know and I think we need this we don't need sentiment to just be a bite kind of skippers and fantasy we needed to deal with real life and this is real life well Lesley Manville is wonderful in everything that she doesn't say so even for that reason alone might tell me that so that's ordinary love is that at the moment it's I next week next week right Ok 6th of December that is so our 2nd film Man is in a slightly lighter note that is it's one of the most entertaining films of the year again sort of a good 12 a it's called naïve it's a river sharp murder mystery from Ryan Johnston who made a little film I think the last film he made was just happen to be Star Wars but he's turned his attention to a genre that he loves which is murder mystery So Christopher Plummer players Harlan thrum baby and it's his family on a list cast family who one of them has maybe bombed to moth. Thank you all for getting together like this it isn't legally necessary but I thought because you're all in town and some of you are leaving soon Scuse me. I'm sorry. Ladies and gentlemen I would like to gently request that you all stay in town until the investigation is completed or he's only requesting but I'm going to make the north of no one move until we figure this all out what can I ask why something change you know no it hasn't changed or no we can't add Mr Stevens You may continue . An amazing cast in this film going to some of the stars well you've got Jamie Lee Curtis you heard Toni Collette there Chris Evans Dawn Johnston Michael Shannon and best of all is Daniel Craig double 07 himself shaken but not stirred in this he plays Byrne war blong a Kentucky Fried detective so he spends the whole film talking and this can a draw there's a bit of foul play go on alone and it's got all the tropes of murder mystery you know like the big the reading of the Will all of the and it's so clever and funny and it starts with a great scene where the body is find and a heist keeper has a tray and you think she's going to drop the tray and she nearly drops it but she doesn't and then you realize Ok this is going to be wonderful So it's got a little bit of Agatha Christie in there a little bit sloth and a lot of murder she wrote I see one of the characters is actually watching an episode of and you have sold me right there yeah they're so Daniel Craig I'm sorry to bang on about accents but I'm obsessed with them ha yeah why is that with him drawl anon and well you know it's kind of funny there is a moment we're one of the other characters says to him you know you're talking like fog horn lake or actually is but that's all kind of part of it because I think if he spoke in this kind of English like kind of bond voice it wouldn't work so I mean it just goes to the fun of it you also have a nurse in the in the film called Martha and every time she tells a lie she has to vomit she throws up so there's grid humor and because you can you can just see it gurgling you can see it coming she's telling a little white lie it's a classic whodunit it's a real treat Oh it sounds brilliant I don't see you're saying he done the Star Wars film and yeah and things he does that have that kind of pace to it that's a more more In a modern Yeah it does of course it does you know because you know when you get in this murder mystery stuff like we've seen it all a 1000 times it's really hard to be fresh and original with it. And he is you know so it's a total joy essence brilliant Now I just do what we've got here Brian and we just will mention quickly that frozen to us yes anyone with a small or medium size child will know that frozen 2 is all right much anticipated by a small ones and is it worth it was it worth a sequel Well you know it's had the biggest opening weekend of any animated film in the history of animated films Ok so let it go again of course they've just kind of d. Frosted the 1st one I think about all the characters else. The blood the songwriter's bikes you've got the big ballad his bike is always there it is there let it go on or store is but it's called into the unknown and I believe our magic fairies have got a clip of it 6 6. That's a date in there and it was her they have thrown the fridge freezer seriously quite literally everything is in a different part everything from the 1st film and more Olaf the snowman is the character who I enjoy the most and so my he says No mom with tape I don't know how that works but he does you know in knowing in the 1st. Laugh Yes but he's funny he's funny and they go on of the adventure of course they do and there's a little bit about Foss in this because Kiran Hynes of course of the prize is his role as the wise troll Kang So you do get a wee bit a bell far about an hour hard enough play and also we were talking about the last new flick earlier own with a link with her company so is there a sort of a climate change a little fame to this film very softly in this film you know because I think at the end of the day the thing about frozen Of course they have this kind of autumnal theme to this one so all off can survive in the permafrost there is a you know there is an element to this but the end of the day we go to frozen because we want to see snow we day didn't. Thing about the frozen both frozen films now is that for little girls going to the cinema we have very positive role models we have girls that you know aren't fancy about what they look like they're about doing and being a heroes and being strong and that's something we've got to applaud childed we have 2 princesses. And we have no prince no Prince Charming No one needs to come along and kiss them or see of them or anything they can do all out themselves thank you very much thank you very much Brian Henley Martin thanks for your recommendations I think I might see both of them thanks very much indeed to all my guests this week on the take it day stay tuned because after the news here on radio it's a blast and don't forget the culture cafe on Saturday at 6 with Mary Louise your Before we go I must just tell you this my husband fell into a huge pot of granulated coffee and was never seen again it was a terrible way to go but at least it was instant. So happy and everyone can do join us next Thursday night at 6 for more live entertainment but for now here's the wonderful Jackie with her own composition cold progression. I'm certain. The people. Who got the families of the victims of the Hillsborough disaster have reacted with shock and anger after the police commander on the day of the match was cleared in relation to the deaths of 95 Liverpool fans David Duncan failed to 75 was fined not guilty of gross negligence manslaughter after a retrial lasting more than 6 weeks Steve Kelly's brother Michael was one of those who died in the crash in 1989. But that was. So much and however. By force racing. To me. It is easy and you know. More than 300000 people in Northern Ireland are waiting to see a consultant a figure that's up 8 percent on this time last year the Department of Health has apologized again to those who are waiting too long but says demand for care is continuing to strip the system the b m A's Dr Carson is a consultant with the ologist she says politicians need to step up to make a change certainly we need to do something because we are tumbling into the situation where working working working and nothing's being done where in the terrible situation so I would welcome and so with the I'm a member welcome. Anybody who can address these issues progress for the. Police arrested 2 men aged $33.59 in connection with the murder of Malcolm Akunin Waring's time in August the 54 year old was found dead in his car behind a service station in the tiny he'd been shot up to 6 times at close range and finally there's mystery in a village in Leicestershire after an anonymous Secret Santa started leaving presents for papal residence and keg worth have stumbled on a variety of gifts in the last 2 weeks Laurie suddenly was armed with her mother when they find one of them on a bench by the local chip shop we just thought it was somebody left it there you know when somebody sits down and then forgets that they left a bag or something that. Tommy won't have a look at it and we had a log and it said that a random act of kindness from the West and I hope you enjoy play it forward so we I thought it was a bunch of players but you know some of the our best has that it's going to be quite chilly the sea of men and overnight with the risk of some frost and the or patch of ice forming by tomorrow morning.