
14/04/2015
Join Kerry for a show packed with classic tracks, current hits and features on films, books and food.
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Music Played
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Billy Ocean
When The Going Gets Tough
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Marvin Gaye
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
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Adele
Rolling In The Deep
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Rainbow
Since You Been Gone
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Skinny Living
The Journey
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UB40
Kingston Town
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David McWilliams
The Days OF Pearly Spencer
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OMI
Cheerleader
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Small Faces
What Cha Gonna Do About It
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Love Inc.
YouÂ’re A Superstar
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Belinda Carlisle
Heaven Is A Place On Earth
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Bob Marley
One Love
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Cheryl
Crazy Stupid Love
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Garth Brooks
You Wreck Me
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Perry Como
Papa Loves Mambo
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The Shires
Friday Night
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Eagles
Tequila Sunrise
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The Living Daylights
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Percy Sledge
When A Man Loves A Woman
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The La’s
There She Goes
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Madonna
Vogue
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin - Reviewed by Mike Philpott
Nora Webster is a novel about loss and reawakening.
It begins in the late 1960s as the world awaits the first moon landing and the first hints of trouble make themselves felt on Northern Ireland’s streets.
Nora’s husband has just died from heart disease, leaving her with two younger sons and two daughters who live away from home.
The story is seen through Nora’s eyes, so we never know any more than she knows. This deceptively simple style has the effect of imprisoning the reader in Nora’s world through every last moment of her bereavement.
But she is a steely character – so steely in fact, that she doesn’t seem to be aware of the effects their father’s death has had on the two boys, Donal and Conor. She sees all four of her children dealing with their grief, usually without intervening. But these were the days, of course, before emotions were talked about openly.
Nora is forced to return to her old workplace to make ends meet. But slowly she begins to emerge from what has happened and finds a resurgence through classical music, which her husband had disliked.
Nora Webster is a masterful character study and an evocation of grief in all its rawness, taking it well beyond the notion of loss and shared memories.
But despite the subject matter, it is a hopeful novel. It is about a woman building a new identity for herself, away from her husband’s shadow.
The restrained writing creates an enclosed world which I was sorry to leave when I finished reading. Â
Broadcast
- Tue 14 Apr 2015 15:03ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Ulster