Anita Robinson: humorous, serious, irreverent, but always worth listening to. Listen to Anita Robinson every Friday
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THE IMPORTANCE OF HANDBAGS |
Anita Robinson explains why, in a woman's life, one thing will remain a priority. She must always know where her handbag is. |
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ADULT EDUCATION |
It's that time of year when peoples thoughts turn to signing up for interesting courses they feel really committed to. |
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CATALOGUE SHOPPING |
Strange things are available in a catalogue falling through a letterbox near you. |
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WASTE FOOD |
Does anyone remember what the phrase, Waste not, want not means? |
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FORGETFULNESS |
If returning to the house once after leaving it is a sign of stress, what is it, again, when you have to go back a second time? |
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DERRY FORTNIGHT |
As the town shuts down, Anita gets busy learning the distinction between mizzle and drizzle. |
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DINOSAUR |
Anita recalls a time when she spent big money on a dinosaur. |
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FACTORY GIRLS |
Factory hooters no longer regulate the days of Anita Robinson. |
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MATTER OF FAITH |
There are some things we used to believe. |
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ELECTION REFLECTION |
Anita searches out a few reasons to be cheerful on the election trail. |
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TRAVEL |
Does the travel chaos we've experienced show we've become more uncharitable? |
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FEAR |
Is it part of the media's brief to frighten the public to death? |
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EASTER |
Anita on what we really think of Easter. |
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ELECTION BLUES |
Anita offers sympathy for channel surfers as sitting room saturation coverage of the election campaign begins. |
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WHERE'S THE CULTURE? |
Is it true that Derry people don't go to plays unless they're in them? |
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LOVE OF ANIMALS |
Anita aims to offend no-one, except animal lovers. |
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FEMINISM |
Was it all worth it? |
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MAIL ORDER |
The perils of buying by mail order. |
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VALUES |
How do lottery wins reflect the value we place on work? |
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MODEL CITY |
A semi-naked model pictured in Ferryquay Gate gets Anita thinking |
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WELL HEELED |
Victoria Beckham's footwear sets Anita back on her heels |
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PYJAMAS |
Northern Ireland gets ahead of the latest trend in sartorial elegance. Apparently. |
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SWEET TAKEOVER |
The implications of one major announcement for each and every one of us. |
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GET A GRIP |
Anita finds supplies of true grit are running low. |
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LOW TECH |
Avoiding the race to become technologically literate. |
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SWEET THOUGHT |
Anita leads a crusade to bring back the tinned sweet. |
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GETTING EXERCISED |
Does working out help you lose weight? Anita considers whether fit is a feminist issue. |
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UNHEALTHY SERVICE |
Is this generation to be the last cared for by a National Health Service? |
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SELLING GRANNY |
Anita reveals what she'd like to do to the child who tried to sell her granny. |
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BEAUTIFULLY STUPID |
Women will never listen to trade unionists about beautifully stupid shoes. |
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WHAT WOMEN WANT |
Why do ageing feminists suddenly want to be with men cleverer than themselves? |
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WASTE NOT |
Anita carries on using food after its sell-by date. |
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CROSS |
A few authority figures get Anita cross. |
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SUNBEDS |
Yearning for freckles to join up to form a tan, and the perils of sunbeds. |
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TRADITION |
Party bags, colour co-ordinated wedding parties, and other rapidly evolving traditions. |
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HYSTERIA |
A dictionary helps to dissect the hysteria of fans. |
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BARBECUE |
Anita Robinson finds she's eating much less red meat these days. |
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CYCLE |
Anita on the attractions of pedal power. |
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SHEDS |
Anita considers the lure of sheds. |
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HEAT |
What is it that brings out the worst in us? Anita investigates. |
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BRIGADOON |
Anita comes to the alarming conclusion that she is living in Brigadoon. |
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MILK |
Anita Robinson discusses MPs expenses and if we also "milk" the system.
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DON'T WATCH NEWS
Anita keeps calm and carries on. |
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CUP RUNNETH OVER
Anita considers a subject very close to her heart. |
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INFECTED NEWS
Have we encountered enough dirt, wonders Anita, as the possibilities of a swine flu pandemic infect the news. |
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BUDGET
Anita considers how like a bathtub Northern Ireland is, and tries to get her head around the Chancellor's Budget. |
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KID-ULTS
Academics rediscover a phenomenon that never really went away - grown up children who can't afford to live away from home. |
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A BRIDGE TOO FAR?
Sleek, sinuous, and graceful. And that's just the plans for a new bridge for Derry. |
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RECESSION BITES
Anita discovers that the eastern part of Northern Ireland is feeling the effects of the recession, and wonders why sandwich bars seem immune. |
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A LADY WHO LUNCHES
A waitress considers whether to offer Anita the seat by the kitchen door or the one beside the loo. |
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WHAT MOTHERS WANT
Why what most mothers want is what most children won't give them, and a mother's place is in the wrong. |
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2AM BULLETIN
A 2am bulletin seemed to turn Northern Ireland's clock back 30 years. |
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IN THE DUMPS
A warning to the City Council - beware the outrage of the middle classes. |
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VALUES
Why do we rush to judgement? Jade Goody wins sympathy as the Press dubs the remarkable Gail Trimble the "answering machine". |
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SINNING
Does anyone, these days, remember the seven deadly sins? |
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KELVINGATE
Back after holidays, Anita asks what has Gregory Campbell got in common with Blondin - and her take on project Kelvin. |
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MAKE DO
Anita considers whether the current generation have the talents of the last. |
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CHEERFUL
Anita discovers some reasons to be cheerful. |
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EDDIE STEPS IN
After Anita succumbed to the cold, Eddie Kerr took over her slot for a week. He urged Christmas bargain hunters to enjoy the season - while shops last. |
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THE STRONGER SEX
In time of flu, why is it that the women are able to soldier on? |
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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WORD
Anita discovers the most beautiful word in the English language - on a visit to hospital for breast screening. |
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THE WONDER OF WOOLIES
A shoplifter's dream? Anita looks back at the glory days of Woolies, and considers how children suck you dry. |
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AT YOUR CONVENIENCE
Mascara, hair driers, and a little gentle character assassination. Anita explains what really happens in the Ladies. |
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QUIGGY
Anita looks to Eoghan Quigg's unusual hairstyle to lighten the mood. |
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HOMELESS
Anita wonders what other city than Derry would have people sleeping rough in the doorway of a boarded up hostel. |
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TASTE AND DECENCY
Anita with her thoughts on the changing face of broadcasting. |
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RIVER OF CHANGE
Anita's thoughts have been occupied by the changing face of the Foyle. |
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HUMMING OPERA
Ridiculous or sublime? Anita's verdict on operatic music. |
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STATE OF IGNORANCE
"The woman tempted me and I did eat" - Eve took the rap for Adam, but after 40 years of feminism, is it any different now? |
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BLUE BAGS FAGS AND CARDS
"Street drinkers sit sunning themselves consuming their liquid breakfast" - Anita has her say on antisocial activity. |
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"MEN'S CLUB"
Do the men of Derry need a "Big Boys club" where they can talk about their problems? |
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WINDCHILL
Anita seeks comfort from a puppet government with pocket money as she faces into the icy darkness of a chilly winter. |
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RAZZMATAZZ
What with all the razzmatazz associated with the American elections, Paul set a challenge for Anita - how do you "sex up" our own local politicians? |
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NO SHAME
Anita Robinson says she won't be shamed into clean living after Andrew Lansley, the Shadow Health Secretary, said there was no excuse for being fat. |
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SERIOUS
Anita attempts to lift the mood in serious times. |
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SCIENTIFIC
Anita deals with a scientific matter. |
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KNICKERS AND TART
As we face an economic recession, Anita talks about falling knickers, the price of a lemon tart, and how we are being strangled by the purse strings! |
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VIGIL FOR EMMETT
Hours after the murder of 22 year old Emmett Shiels, hundreds of people attended a vigil, to be told that the community had come to a fork in the road: it had to choose between the violence of the past and the new politics of the future. |
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DAMNED LIES, AND THE APPRENTICE
Lee McQueen talked himself into a 拢100,000 a year apprenticeship with Sir Alan Sugar, even though he lied on his CV. Anita Robinson ruminates on the realities of "The Apprentice". |
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A SOW'S EAR
A listener accused Paul of being "all gloom and doom." So he invited Anita Robinson to show him how to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. |
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BELT TIGHTENING
As the credit crunch bites Anita Robinson has been chatting to Paul about tightening her belt. |
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ON THE STREETS
Is Derry the centre of its own universe - or at the outskirts of somebody else's? |
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NEW BALLS!
New balls, please! Anita Robinson
muses on the issues which matter this rain-sodden summer;
why, for example, does one of the Williams sisters wear
her bra outside her dress? |
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LANGUAGE
Anita Robinson is here - or there - considering the
complexities of language in this province, in these occupied
six counties, in Ulster, in the north, in Northern Ireland (take your pick). |
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FEDORA
First Minister Ian Paisley may be
cutting a dash in his black fedora, but Anita Robinson's
less impressed with the sartorial elegance of some of his
ministerial colleagues. |
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WEXFORD TRAGEDY
The lessons
to be learned from the tragedy in Wexford, in which four
members of the Dunne family lost their lives. |
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