Episodes
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20170810 | The accomplished writer and broadcaster reflects on his comical life-long search for useful male role models in films, novels and real life. Peter grew up surrounded by his mum and five sisters - although, as the eldest, he wasn't spoiled. Honestly.
In this programme, he goes mooching around the streets of his Belfast childhood, recalling torturous inquisitions from local lads about religion, and he takes the audience at The Queens Film Theatre in Belfast on a journey into the power of George Best, men in towelling trunks, polite gunmen at the front door, and the all-conquering laughter of girls.
Peter's joined by some expert and inexpert witnesses to answer questions on gender, parenting and Darth Vader.
The programme was recorded as part of the Belfast Film Festival and Peter was joined on stage by one of Britain's foremost experts on psychosexual medicine, Dr Ian Walsh; cinema historian and documentary director, Brian Henry Martin; and Good Vibrations record label owner and local legend, Terri Hooley.
The programme includes a vivid reading by the presenter's mother of an excerpt from WF Marshall's Ulster-Scots dialect classic about the cost of romantic indecision, Me and Me Da. As mentioned in the programme, the words are listed here:
I'm livin in Drumlister
Me Da lived up in Carmin,
Consarnin weemin sure it wos
Wee Margit had no fortune,
So I swithered back an forrit
But cryin cures no trouble,
So I'm livin in Drumlister
Producer: Steve Doherty
The broadcaster\u2019s comic life-search for male role models in books, films and television. | |
20170810 | 20190910 (R4) | The accomplished writer and broadcaster reflects on his comical life-long search for useful male role models in films, novels and real life. Peter grew up surrounded by his mum and five sisters - although, as the eldest, he wasn't spoiled. Honestly.
In this programme, he goes mooching around the streets of his Belfast childhood, recalling torturous inquisitions from local lads about religion, and he takes the audience at The Queens Film Theatre in Belfast on a journey into the power of George Best, men in towelling trunks, polite gunmen at the front door, and the all-conquering laughter of girls.
Peter's joined by some expert and inexpert witnesses to answer questions on gender, parenting and Darth Vader.
The programme was recorded as part of the Belfast Film Festival and Peter was joined on stage by one of Britain's foremost experts on psychosexual medicine, Dr Ian Walsh; cinema historian and documentary director, Brian Henry Martin; and Good Vibrations record label owner and local legend, Terri Hooley.
The programme includes a vivid reading by the presenter's mother of an excerpt from WF Marshall's Ulster-Scots dialect classic about the cost of romantic indecision, Me and Me Da. As mentioned in the programme, the words are listed here:
I'm livin in Drumlister
Me Da lived up in Carmin,
Consarnin weemin sure it wos
Wee Margit had no fortune,
So I swithered back an forrit
But cryin cures no trouble,
So I'm livin in Drumlister
Producer: Steve Doherty
The broadcaster\u2019s comic life-search for male role models in books, films and television. |