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Dear dra? or Dear dree? Stand up Deirdre O'Kane on how her dad didn't know how to pronounce her name!

The brilliantly funny Deirdre O'Kane talks to Anna about stand-up and acting, and Louise Butcher on running marathons topless after a double mastectomy.

An incredible line up of guests join Anna including Deirdre O'Kane on stand up, appearing in Lisa McGee's new show "How to Get to Heaven from Belfast" and her Derry Mammy.
Louise Butcher on provoking a conversation around cancer by running marathons topless after a double mastectomy without getting reconstruction.
Scarlett Johansson is rocking the rebirth in dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, so we had to find out about a new show Prehistoric Planet coming to the small screen soon and a tv producer who says David Attenborough told him he was retiring in the 1980s! If you're in or around the
East Belfast area you may have noticed a brand new mural. It's absolutely beautiful and it depicts the mother of Narnia author CS Lewis. The gable wall sized art work of Flora Lewis on the Belmont road was created by street artist Emic
Flora's son of course is known the world over for his Narnia books... but she was a trailblazer in her own right...our favourite historian Dr Robyn Acheson from Queen's University joins Anna
and as a new study emerges detailing the 6 key attributes to coolness, we ask Wood Burning Savages Front man Paul Connolly and lifestyle blogger Helen McClements how they define cool?
All that plus loads of music from the Sunday Songbook.

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