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APPLAUSE . A packed show tonight. It is a | :00:20. | :00:30. | |
politician free zone. We've Andrew Smyth from | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
The Great British Bake Off who will be creating one | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
of his festive masterpieces, Bryan McFadden and Keith Duffy | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
from Boyzlife will be dropping by. And there's music from Aled Jones, | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
as well as a few surprises for one But to kick it all off and get | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
the Christmas party started - it's the Belfast Community Gospel | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
Choir! # Rocking around the Christmas tree | :00:49. | :01:02. | |
and # Mistletoe up where you can see, | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
every couple # Walking around the Christmas tree, | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
let the Christmas spirit ring. # Who will get a sentimental feeling | :01:16. | :01:24. | |
when # Voices singing let's be jolly, | :01:25. | :01:37. | |
deck the halls with boughs of holly. # Everyone dancing merrily in the | :01:38. | :01:47. | |
new old-fashioned way. # You will get a sentimental feeling | :01:48. | :02:01. | |
when you hear voices singing let's be jolly, deck the bowls with -- | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
deck the holes with boughs of # Everyone dancing merrily in the | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
new old-fashioned way. # The weather outside is frightful | :02:15. | :02:26. | |
but the fire is still # Since we've no place to go, let it | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
snow, let it snow, let it snow. # It doesn't show signs of stopping, | :02:35. | :02:51. | |
so I've got some corner before popping. | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
# The legs are away download, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. | :02:55. | :03:03. | |
# Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. | :03:04. | :03:19. | |
APPLAUSE Ladies and gentlemen the Belfast | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
Community Gospel Choir! This feel-good TV is good. | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
Now my first guest has been really difficult to tie down - | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
he's been working around the clock and hasn't had a single day off | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
But we've tracked him down and we hope that we've managed | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
to get the satellite link up for this very special guest. | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
There he his -- there he is, good evening! Hello, is that Stephen? I | :03:43. | :03:57. | |
am a little bit deaf but hopefully you will be telling me I have been a | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
good boy this Christmas. Yes, I'm glad you rang me because Santa's | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
phone is a mobile phone and it is pay as you ho ho ho. I am very busy | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
but I always have time to talk to you and the good people who are with | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
you. I have been looking at my book, Stephen. It says Stephen Nolan, aged | :04:24. | :04:31. | |
40 plus, 1982, the present you wanted, connect four. I loved | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
connect four. And your railway set in train set. Did you ever ask for | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
goalkeeping gloves? I loved Bruce Grobbelaar! This isn't clap but that | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
isn't scripted. I used to fly through the air like a young Finn. | :04:52. | :05:03. | |
My else tell me there is a very special boy called Nathan Scott. He | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
has had nearly as many letters and cards sent to him this year as I | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
have. I'm observant elf of mine spotted his mum's appeal and social | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
media. He was just around the three age. He was a completely different | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
child from what we have known. Autism wasn't even heard of. His | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
daddy's birthday cards went up in September and they were viewed | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
numerous times in the day. It was automatic in the morning for Nathan | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
to comment and it was as if he was just making sure that the details | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
that he had stored on here that everything was just perfect the way | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
he had seen of the day before. My Facebook of the -- appeal, it went | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
up on the Sunday morning and an average on 300 friends on my page, | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
if one tenth of those people were to send Nathan a card it would make his | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
weekday, it was unreal. There are over 2000 cards in this house with | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
promises of more to come and they have come from all over the world. | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
The laughter that comes behind that child when he opened those cards, | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
especially when he opens and glitter or sequins for out but it is like, | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
where did that come out of? His whole emotional well-being since the | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
start of December has been nothing but happiness. This has been the | :06:38. | :06:45. | |
best Christmas ever for us. APPLAUSE | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
What a beautiful little boy, Nathan. I hope you have a really happy | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
Christmas and everybody here is going to give you a huge round of | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
applause, make them, happy Christmas! | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
APPLAUSE -- Nathan. Is there an Ava | :07:04. | :07:14. | |
McWilliams? With the be an Ava McWilliams in the studio tonight? | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
Put your hand up if there is an Ava McWilliams in the studio. Hello. It | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
says you have been a very good girl. Helping your mum Evelyn and your dad | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
Nigel looking after your younger sister Grace, is that right? And | :07:33. | :07:45. | |
what do you do to help mum and dad? I read to grace and do her homework. | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
And do you help her at school? Yeah. And what would you like from Father | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
Christmas this year? A playhouse. I think I might be able to manage | :08:02. | :08:10. | |
that. Anything else? What about a yo-yo? Does Grace want a yo-yo? | :08:11. | :08:22. | |
Grace is beautiful. What colour yo-yo, Grace? Blue. If your sister a | :08:23. | :08:32. | |
good girl looking after you? APPLAUSE | :08:33. | :08:52. | |
That is lovely. It is very good to love one another, especially at | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
Christmas time. I have it all written down in mime big book and I | :08:57. | :09:03. | |
will be bringing you presence. I've got to go. Everybody say goodbye to | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
Santa. Merry Christmas everyone. Now Christmas wouldn't be complete | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
without the mince pies, One man who knows all | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
about cooking up a treat or two is runner-up in this year's | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
Great British Bakeoff, Andrew Smyth. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :09:19. | :09:37. | |
. Hello. Great to see you. You are going to make is something | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
Christmassy tonight, are you? Yes, I will be making some snow globe | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
cupcakes. I made these earlier. I will do some icing. The main thing | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
will be these little gelatin bobbles. They are edible. They will | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
sit on top. Your own personal snow globe. I was going to use that. So | :09:59. | :10:08. | |
how does this work? I have got to melt down some gelatin. A couple | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
more seconds in the microwave. You soften some gelatin with a bit of | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
water and some bowling is here that I have lightly greased which I will | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
dip in coming give them a little twirl and they take overnight to | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
dry. You can cut and peeled them straight off again. Hopefully! Very | :10:26. | :10:36. | |
posh, and you? I have got different accent. I am from the Hollywood. | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
Hollywood... LAUGHTER | :10:41. | :10:46. | |
I have lived in England for seven years so it takes the edges of the | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
accent. You don't close like that. It has got a really thin layer of | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
gelatin. Do you want to give it a go? Do a pick one of this? Not a | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
whole block, just one! A little dog and a twirl. Little dog? -- little | :11:04. | :11:18. | |
dog. Overnight? This is my blue Peter moment. Some I made earlier | :11:19. | :11:29. | |
these have got the Delta and hardened. This is where it could all | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
go you have got this totally edible | :11:32. | :11:43. | |
that you can then put on top of your cupcake. Well done so far! | :11:44. | :11:52. | |
APPLAUSE My mum and grandmother taught me the | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
basics when I was younger. I was able to kind of practice myself a | :12:01. | :12:03. | |
lot more later. I have always enjoyed my food. It was the next | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
base thing. If you go to pity is a big reason you can get a nice stuff | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
so I thought why not alone to make myself? Is it true you designed jet | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
engines? Yes, four days a week and then one day a week for baking. I | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
helped to design jet engines. I work in analysis. Don't want to bore | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
people with the detail I can't but I take engine data. That is what I do | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
four days a week. You're a smart guy and we are very proud you obviously | :12:39. | :12:44. | |
in the Bake Off. The people back home really got behind me and I got | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
so many messages and people behind me and people were proud to see | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
people representing Northern Ireland. We like to see someone | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
doing really well. What was your experience on at? The sick abating | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
after it? I had to have a bit of a break from baking afterwards because | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
it had been quite intense. How intense desert? I was juggling it | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
with the day job -- day job. I was doing six hours of baking every | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
night after two practice. It was quite intensive. What are you doing | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
now? I am going to just another one of these. Then once you have got | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
these, you trim off the bottom. I will make up some buttercream icing | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
which will go on top. I have some ground down, little sugared pearls | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
that you can get in the supermarket. Chocolate Orange. One of those ready | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
to go for you later on. Don't do what you did to the gelatin to | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
those. We will have some gingerbread men and it will be a nice snowy | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
scene hopefully by the end of the show. Why is that utensil important? | :13:55. | :14:01. | |
That is just a spring, Stephen. LAUGHTER | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
-- spoon. And you have the knife there, don't you? We will come back | :14:06. | :14:19. | |
to you later. I know I have been having a bit of banter but we are | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
proud of you and thank you for representing us so well across the | :14:23. | :14:24. | |
water. APPLAUSE | :14:25. | :14:34. | |
As it's Christmas, and we thought you might like to hear | :14:35. | :14:36. | |
Vinny went along to Millennium Integrated Primary School in | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
Carryduff and Holy Trinity Primary in Enniskillen to see what they had | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
to say about Christmas and a few other things. | :14:44. | :14:55. | |
What are you? I'm a sheep in the play. I had to ask for a leg | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
warmers. Sheep don't wear legwarmers. What do you think Brexit | :15:05. | :15:18. | |
is? You eat it. Serial? May be some run some ice cream store. What do | :15:19. | :15:25. | |
you think of the new 20 mph speed limit in Belfast? In Germany, you | :15:26. | :15:32. | |
can go any speed. Not at eight miles per. I would go zooming, so I would. | :15:33. | :15:42. | |
I would be a princess. Eat sweets all day. Who would run the country | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
if you were doing that? My mum. I would go to the beach. They would | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
run the country if he were at the beach? I would ask one of my | :15:54. | :16:01. | |
friends. Like me! Yes. What do you think about the waiting lists at | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
hospitals. How heavy UI. How would you make waiting lists shorter? If | :16:09. | :16:16. | |
you are smaller. You get seen quicker. Yes. Is give them a round | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
of applause. APPLAUSE. | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
And there will be more from kids later. | :16:27. | :16:28. | |
Christmas isn't always a happy time, people can feel lonely and be under | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
We wanted to say thank you to a few people who this year are going that | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
extra mile to ease the pain for those less fortunate. | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
Kris Nixon - you're just about to launch this year's | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
This is the second year we did it. It is a repository for people to | :16:45. | :16:59. | |
drop things off if they think that people might need them and for | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
people to get what they need. You don't have to ask for help. The idea | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
is that members of the public would put things in the draw and someone | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
who is in need, they can come up and take what they need from the | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
kindness drawer. Clothes, toiletries, books, everything that | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
someone might urgently need on the street. There are some novels in | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
there. An added bonus. This is in some other countries as well. Yes. | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
It is moving into other countries as well. People have really taken to | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
it. It is superb. We had a lot of concern when we put it in Belfast, | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
people saying they would get destroyed and wrecked, but people | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
treated them well. It was handled perfectly, Belfast did us proud. Are | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
they filled up much by members of the public? Yes. You will get highs | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
and lows of what is in there and over the course, we had it for two | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
months last year and it did not run dry. It ran itself. You were | :18:02. | :18:09. | |
promised yourself? Yes, when I was a teenager. I was homeless at | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
Christmas. It is not easy. What do you do on Christmas Day, I think | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
about it, for me, my mum is in a little semidetached house, and I | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
love going into her home and she has got the table all set out, she is | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
usually burning the turkey and the peas are really hard, but I love her | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
so much, I don't care and it tastes beautiful because she has made it. | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
What is it like when you don't have that Christmas Day and there is no | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
one around you? It's not as bad as you think, because as much as you | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
are used to Christmas being a big thing, the previous days weeks and | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
months have not been great so you are not building up to Christmas | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
will be fantastic, because you know what your life is at that point and | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
you're not looking forward to what you know you will not have. Can we | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
doubt about the way can we expect to see these? I can say where yet. We | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
like to pop them up in different places and see how Belfast takes to | :19:11. | :19:13. | |
them but we will have them out this week and encourage people to put | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
things in. Toiletries are always imported. Wet weather clothes. | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
Anything you can spare. It is a lovely idea. | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
Carol Doey - you're a community worker at The Hub in Cookstown. | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
And for the last number of years you and a team of volunteers have | :19:29. | :19:31. | |
been providing 100 or so Christmas dinners at the centre. | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
We open up on Christmas Day and cook dinner for people, people feel | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
lonely for different reasons and we felt it would break our hearts if we | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
knew that there was one person sitting on their own on Christmas | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
Day who did not have food or that someone was bringing them in food | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
rather than joining us in a family atmosphere. We absolutely love it, | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
it is a brilliant day, and we encourage anyone who is out there in | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
our area are further afield, we picked them up, we send them home | :20:02. | :20:08. | |
with tea, there is music all day, we give our time. That must mean the | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
world to someone. Do you get all shapes and sizes, different ages? | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
Absolutely. Some families who are not as financially well off, we | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
might have a man who has lost his wife, maybe families who have not | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
agreed over the years and they could be on their own, anyone, people feel | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
lonely for different reasons, so we invite them to come and join us. If | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
I was lonely, I would not ask you go to a place where it says, are you | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
lonely, so we manipulate the situation is. We tell a few lies and | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
get people to join us for Christmas Day. My year said am we had eight | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
turkeys and we needed people to help them cook them and eat them. It is a | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
lovely gesture. Alan McClure, you're | :20:58. | :20:58. | |
the co-ordinator of Is there a big demand | :20:59. | :20:59. | |
for food banks this year? This year, in the past six months, | :21:00. | :21:12. | |
the food banks across Northern Ireland that up under the umbrella | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
of the trial saw trust have fed 13,000 people. North Belfast has fed | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
1000 of those, but what really compounds that for me is that half | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
of the 1000 people that we have fed our children. Wow! I find that a | :21:28. | :21:38. | |
sign of where we live and that is hard to take. You must see a lot of | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
people under financial pressure at this time of year. There is a lot of | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
people, recently, my phone has increased with people calling who | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
are employed. Normally my clients are unemployed but we are getting | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
more who are employed at and they are finding the next pay packet hard | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
to reach. How would families manage if it were not for the food parcels? | :22:01. | :22:07. | |
I have people who ring me quite regularly, different people who have | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
not eaten for maybe for, five or six days. I have people who ring and | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
they say, I can't take my medication, because I have no food, | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
it says on my prescribed medication that I have to eat before taking | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
this and I cannot take those prescribed medications because I | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
have no food. Thank you for what you do. Ladies and gentlemen, give them | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
a round of applause. APPLAUSE. Thank you, sir. | :22:42. | :22:48. | |
If you're like me, you'll just love driving past the houses that | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
are covered with twinkling fairy lights and inflatable snowmen! | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
There's Lynn C Nelson's house in Belfast, shining bright. | :22:56. | :23:04. | |
And Marie Fullerton's home in Four Winds is looking very festive. | :23:05. | :23:15. | |
And it's not just houses, look at these, Randalstown Young Farmers | :23:16. | :23:17. | |
have lit up their tractors for Christmas - brilliant! | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
Well, one family in Tandragee have really gone all out to brighten up | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
Tim Hancock and his dad Mark spend the entire year planning | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
and designing their outdoor Christmas illuminations display. | :23:33. | :23:33. | |
They were delighted when we asked could the BBC come and film | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
So we decided to have a bit fun and send along Keith Law, | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
our fake environmental official, who is concerned about excessive | :23:42. | :23:43. | |
light levels affecting the nearby Armagh Observatory. | :23:44. | :24:02. | |
We have everything from nativities, elves, Santos, snowmen, anything you | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
can imagine really. Dad started, about 2000 and Bor at two figures, | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
one for me and my brother, we kept visiting the sales and we got to | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
where we are today. He is the Project manager and I am apparently | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
be Assistant Project manager. Which generally means, gopher, I have to | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
follow instructions and do what I am told. Tim and Mark think we are here | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
to cover the switch on for a BBC News programme. Everything OK? Good. | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
Little do they know that Patricia is not a reporter, but is in fact one | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
of our researchers. Has anyone said that you're both crazy? Yes. | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
Christmas is talked about all year. We have been doing this display in | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
smaller amounts since the year 2000. We had just moved here in the last | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
month, for us, if it makes one person smile as a result of what we | :25:09. | :25:12. | |
has done, then it would make it worthwhile. Five - four, three, two, | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
one... It is absolutely fantastic, we did | :25:18. | :25:28. | |
not have any technical hitches. What about your nerves? Now that they are | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
on and nothing has tripped, that is the good thing. Our prankster Keith | :25:36. | :25:44. | |
says he has had a complaint about excessive light levels and is off to | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
investigate. Tim is delighted it has all gone so well. It comes down to | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
the plan, if you don't have an effective plan in place, that is | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
when things start to go wrong. And things are about to go very, very | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
wrong. Here comes an angry official with his clipboard! Excuse me. Are | :26:04. | :26:13. | |
you the person behind the lights? Yes. Are you aware of your houses? | :26:14. | :26:27. | |
Yes. Can we do this... They are in contravention... We are within a 12 | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
mile exclusion zone of the Armagh planetarium. As most people to see | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
the star is. Do you have an exemption certificate? Exemption | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
certificate? No. We have everything checked out... You have not checked | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
out with the environmental unit. The display is emitting too much light | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
and is breaking Keith's regulations. Get them turned off. Turn off. Time | :26:55. | :27:02. | |
for our man on the in to pull the plug on the display. Everyone is | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
plunged into darkness as the lights display is shut down. | :27:07. | :27:07. | |
APPLAUSE. We'll go back to them a little bit | :27:08. | :27:10. | |
later to see just how rattled Mark and Tim get when tempers start | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
to flare up! Now, my next guests | :27:15. | :27:16. | |
tonight are no strangers to playing in Belfast, | :27:17. | :27:18. | |
but They've now got together to form | :27:19. | :27:19. | |
their very own supergroup, Boyzlife. Let's have a look back | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
to when Boyzone and Westlife # I hear myself say | :27:26. | :27:40. | |
# Why can't this feeling displayed away | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
# All dressed up and ready to rock 'n' roll... | :27:44. | :27:51. | |
# Let the reason the love... Ladies and gentlemen, it is Keith | :27:52. | :28:15. | |
Duffy and Bryan McFadden. Happy Christmas! It gets on my nerves when | :28:16. | :28:24. | |
we have two good-looking men but at least they're not as good-looking as | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
they were! When you look back on that, is it through rose tinted | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
glasses? Even just talking to each other, we looked at the clips and we | :28:37. | :28:39. | |
cannot remember when they were or where they work, it becomes a fuzzy | :28:40. | :28:45. | |
haze. You have to remember, for me especially, you took a break, but | :28:46. | :28:51. | |
for me, my time in Westlife was so quick. It all becomes one big mess | :28:52. | :28:56. | |
in your head. I think the first few years we | :28:57. | :29:10. | |
couldn't believe has accessible we work butted up to a stage is before | :29:11. | :29:15. | |
a left where they stopped it. The Westlife boys carried on and game | :29:16. | :29:22. | |
maybes started to enjoy it. For me it had become a little bit like | :29:23. | :29:28. | |
that. You took a break, didn't you? We were together for six years and | :29:29. | :29:31. | |
it was pretty crazy back when. I was quite content to keep going forward. | :29:32. | :29:35. | |
We were at the top of our game. Like any business you build a duck to be | :29:36. | :29:39. | |
the best band and why would you break it up? I wasn't for the break. | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
It was suppose to be a year and it ended up being seven. The power must | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
be quite seductive and the success. 20 number ones between you. | :29:50. | :29:53. | |
APPLAUSE . | :29:54. | :30:02. | |
I got most of them now. We have also got six lives between us! -- wives. | :30:03. | :30:16. | |
Is it scary to let it go? It is at the time because Roman and Stephen | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
did most of the lead vocals. I went on to do Coronation Street and then | :30:22. | :30:27. | |
various theatre shows and other TV stuff and movies so I have been very | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
lucky. You going back to Coronation Street next year? You never know. I | :30:33. | :30:40. | |
like answers, big lad, are you going back to Coronation Street next year? | :30:41. | :30:47. | |
Boyzlife, jumping back in, which in itself is interesting because it is | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
sometimes back -- better to let it set, the past. We missing the music | :30:53. | :30:58. | |
too much? It is a different idea. We have done the bands and I have done | :30:59. | :31:02. | |
it and Keith has done the acting. The thing he loves about acting, | :31:03. | :31:08. | |
getting the intimate audience and speaking instead of singing. | :31:09. | :31:16. | |
Creating stories. What we are doing together is called Boyzlife but it | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
is an autobiographical show where we have a look back over both Westlife | :31:21. | :31:26. | |
and Boyzone and other places within those two bands and reminiscing. The | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
show we did in Belfast was crazy. I think they thought it was goggle box | :31:31. | :31:36. | |
live. They kept shouting at us, sing a song! We are telling a story, what | :31:37. | :31:43. | |
part of that do not understand? Sing a Westlife song! It is quite funny | :31:44. | :31:48. | |
because Belfast for both bands was massive and they were probably the | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
most hard-core fans in the world. The first night of one of our gigs, | :31:53. | :31:57. | |
there was a girl in the front row and we showed videos of the past of | :31:58. | :32:03. | |
us growing up and career and then we tell stories and the very first | :32:04. | :32:08. | |
story, I come on first as an 18-year-old and this boy said, it | :32:09. | :32:18. | |
should be Boyzone first! I think Christmas, I turn into a little boy, | :32:19. | :32:22. | |
I love the feeling of it. My house is covered in all these tacky | :32:23. | :32:28. | |
decorations. Do you love Christmas's Christmas is all about family. It is | :32:29. | :32:33. | |
great when you have a good family and people love you. But I am sure | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
for some people it is not as lovely as we are fortunate enough to | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
experience because you walk chemistry to Belfast and Dublin and | :32:42. | :32:45. | |
you see homeless people and it is a time of reflection. You have to | :32:46. | :32:49. | |
remember how lucky we are and it is a time of giving. You have to do | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
your little bit for the people that are less fortunate. What will | :32:54. | :32:58. | |
Christmas Day be like for you? Absolutely crazy. Sitting down with | :32:59. | :33:01. | |
the family, plenty of mulled wine, plenty of old yarns, probably end up | :33:02. | :33:07. | |
in a big fight. What will you be doing? I have the case. This is my | :33:08. | :33:15. | |
year. Alternate years. 'S... Kids. It will be a big Christmas at home | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
this year. I love this Christmas show. It is a politician free zone. | :33:21. | :33:26. | |
All the people come down to back our studio out and it is up bit better | :33:27. | :33:31. | |
because you two have come so happy Christmas! | :33:32. | :33:32. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE And you can catch Boyzlife in | :33:33. | :33:35. | |
Belfast on the 4th and 5th of April. Now, time for a few | :33:36. | :33:40. | |
Christmas messages from some I, dropping by to say a happy and | :33:41. | :33:52. | |
eight useful business to everyone at the Nolan show and all over Northern | :33:53. | :33:55. | |
Ireland. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas. I would like to wish | :33:56. | :34:00. | |
everybody a very happy Christmas and prosperous 2017. Thank you your | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
support especially at the Ryder Cup but going forward hopefully I can | :34:06. | :34:08. | |
keep doing Northern Ireland proud. Cheers. Hi, I hope you have had an | :34:09. | :34:14. | |
incredible 2016. I certainly have was winning the World Superbike | :34:15. | :34:17. | |
Championship. They do so much for all your support and they wish you a | :34:18. | :34:20. | |
very Merry Christmas and a happy and successful 2017. | :34:21. | :34:21. | |
APPLAUSE Now I want you to meet | :34:22. | :34:25. | |
a very talented young man. But he has quite literally | :34:26. | :34:28. | |
found his voice and is the audience Good to see you. What is it you do? | :34:29. | :34:49. | |
Beat boxing. From my mouth. And you are really good at this? Confident | :34:50. | :34:56. | |
young man, that is what I like. When did you start doing this? Coming up | :34:57. | :35:01. | |
two years now. He discovered that he could do this on a long journey in | :35:02. | :35:07. | |
the car. Coming from Dublin and we were messing about and the next | :35:08. | :35:10. | |
thing comes up with I don't know where it came from. Do you have to | :35:11. | :35:16. | |
practice? Year. I tell you what we will do because it is often a young | :35:17. | :35:22. | |
kid like you. How old are you? 14. Often a young kid like you that we | :35:23. | :35:26. | |
can do think maybe a little bit shy and then when you perform you have | :35:27. | :35:31. | |
got it, you have nailed it. This is really boosted confidence, hasn't | :35:32. | :35:36. | |
it? Why is that? I have had a hard time at all the schools. Why? Racial | :35:37. | :35:46. | |
comments. Really? Well, I am sorry. I am sorry that has happened to you, | :35:47. | :35:51. | |
mate. I know you are a talented young guy and hopefully those | :35:52. | :35:57. | |
comments. . We are all proud of you. APPLAUSE | :35:58. | :36:00. | |
Take it away. Nolan show. | :36:01. | :36:35. | |
LAUGHTER HE BEATBOXES. Stephen. | :36:36. | :36:45. | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Thanks a lot! Give him a round of | :36:46. | :36:49. | |
applause! APPLAUSE | :36:50. | :36:52. | |
Now, earlier on you saw what happened when we sent our angry | :36:53. | :36:57. | |
official from the imaginary Environmental Unit along to Tim | :36:58. | :36:59. | |
Let's catch up with them again to see if Keith's light level | :37:00. | :37:04. | |
readings finally push Mark over the edge. | :37:05. | :37:16. | |
This is for charity. Get them turned off. Mark and Tim's light | :37:17. | :37:26. | |
extravaganza has been snuffed out by red tape. I need to know who you | :37:27. | :37:32. | |
are. You show me something that says... You are Keith Law. I need to | :37:33. | :37:38. | |
see it on that because they could show me that. Keith produces his | :37:39. | :37:48. | |
light meter. It is dazzling. What are you talking about? 140 is all | :37:49. | :37:55. | |
right but with the lights on I was getting a reading even when I went | :37:56. | :38:03. | |
up the drive, a reading of 2000. You have come onto my property and you | :38:04. | :38:08. | |
are throwing allegations at me. His wife is asking him to calm down. | :38:09. | :38:13. | |
When did you come to hear about this, was it today? This is part of | :38:14. | :38:19. | |
my roster. When did I come to do this? Listened to the question. When | :38:20. | :38:25. | |
did you know about this? This display and what was happening | :38:26. | :38:29. | |
tonight, that is two questions. I knew about this during the week and | :38:30. | :38:34. | |
it is all over social media. White Junot, in advance? Is the argument | :38:35. | :38:39. | |
heats up the guests are left in the dark. I don't know who you are. | :38:40. | :38:45. | |
There is nothing on that pad. Please stop touching my pad. There is | :38:46. | :38:49. | |
nothing that shows me that you or the person that is named there. Let | :38:50. | :38:54. | |
me get my boss. Come on out! He is the one who... I wonder can be boss | :38:55. | :38:59. | |
man shed a bit of light on this matter? Happy Christmas! I tried to | :39:00. | :39:14. | |
get you to come down! I have to say your lights are lovely. I wondered | :39:15. | :39:19. | |
why they kept on filming! Are you ever going to watch or problem | :39:20. | :39:28. | |
again? -- watch our programme again? Can we get these beautiful lights | :39:29. | :39:29. | |
back on again? APPLAUSE | :39:30. | :39:49. | |
Good stuff. Mark is in the audience with Tim. Was there a point where it | :39:50. | :39:52. | |
nearly tipped over the edge? Because we had gone through so much | :39:53. | :39:56. | |
bureaucracy in the run-up to it, those lights were going on. It | :39:57. | :40:00. | |
wasn't a case of they weren't going on, they were going on. He grabbed | :40:01. | :40:06. | |
your pass at one stage and said where is the foot of? I found it | :40:07. | :40:10. | |
fairly threatening. I am a bit scared being here right now. And | :40:11. | :40:17. | |
still there is no photo. Tim, you collect this, for how many years | :40:18. | :40:24. | |
now? We have had lights for about 16 years now. This is our fourth year | :40:25. | :40:27. | |
for charity. It has went big in the last four years and it has turned | :40:28. | :40:32. | |
into a charity thing but we had lights as early as 2000. You just | :40:33. | :40:36. | |
keep on adding it to your collection? Every month of the year | :40:37. | :40:39. | |
we have boxes arriving with Christmas lights at our house. It is | :40:40. | :40:42. | |
always really funny asking the personal guide to ask what is in the | :40:43. | :40:48. | |
parcel. And in July telling him it is Christmas decorations. They look | :40:49. | :40:52. | |
at you and walk away. A difficult time for you recently, Mark? It has. | :40:53. | :40:58. | |
I lost my mum six weeks ago and we weren't sure whether we would do the | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
lights, but when I sat one night in the hospital with her I looked at | :41:04. | :41:07. | |
her and thought she would have wanted us to keep doing this so we | :41:08. | :41:10. | |
quickly got everything out of storage and pulled it together in | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
four weeks. Thank you so much for letting us part of this. It made it | :41:15. | :41:20. | |
a special night for us that you took the time to come for us because we | :41:21. | :41:23. | |
think of what we do and we don't realise perhaps the full | :41:24. | :41:26. | |
significance of it so you made our night special. You have a beautiful | :41:27. | :41:30. | |
garden. Give them a round of applause. 's | :41:31. | :41:34. | |
My next guest became a household name at just 11 years old. | :41:35. | :41:37. | |
Since then he has sung for royalty, performed around the world | :41:38. | :41:40. | |
to millions and his albums have gone gold and platinum. | :41:41. | :41:44. | |
I have always wondered about you, if you are really as nice as you are on | :41:45. | :42:04. | |
the telly. LAUGHTER | :42:05. | :42:10. | |
I have been doing it since 11 and tonight I come out the real me. I a | :42:11. | :42:17. | |
normal guy. When I was a little kid the fact that you dress up as a | :42:18. | :42:20. | |
choirboy, everybody thinks you are whiter than white. By boys are | :42:21. | :42:24. | |
pretty wicked as well. I am just a normal guy. It is different when | :42:25. | :42:30. | |
some people get that level of attention when they are a child. | :42:31. | :42:34. | |
Sometimes they can go off the rails. I don't understand that because I | :42:35. | :42:40. | |
had four years doing what I did, 16 albums, spitting image, the only | :42:41. | :42:44. | |
time I was ever trendy as school was a sketch on me and they had me in | :42:45. | :42:50. | |
the studio singing Walking In The Air and the producers said that as | :42:51. | :42:54. | |
ten minutes until his voice breaks at 17 albums. It was a bit like that | :42:55. | :42:59. | |
but no one had done before me was no pressure. My mum and dad knew | :43:00. | :43:03. | |
nothing about showbiz will stop my mum was a teacher, my dad and | :43:04. | :43:09. | |
engineer. Why go off the rails? 31 years since you recorded Walking In | :43:10. | :43:16. | |
The Air. It is scary but it seems like yesterday to be honest with | :43:17. | :43:20. | |
you, the projects I have had this year, going back and duetting with | :43:21. | :43:26. | |
my young voice for the first time in my life I have looked back at what I | :43:27. | :43:29. | |
did as a boy and I feel proud about what I did. The recording that you | :43:30. | :43:34. | |
originally did came by chance, didn't they? Completely. I was just | :43:35. | :43:40. | |
a boy in a cathedral in North Wales and a local recording company asked | :43:41. | :43:43. | |
me to do an album. That was on sale somewhere in Cardiff and then the | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
next thing I know I am in the pop charts at number two with All | :43:49. | :43:50. | |
Through The Night. # Bat bristling steam is number one | :43:51. | :43:59. | |
with born in the USA. Isn't it amazing how things can catapult? I | :44:00. | :44:05. | |
was in the right place at the right time. Monday to Friday I would be in | :44:06. | :44:09. | |
normal school playing football and chasing girls and then on Friday | :44:10. | :44:13. | |
night it would be Hollywood or Rome or London or wherever. It was | :44:14. | :44:18. | |
amazing. We like cash in the Attic, do you like the presenting better | :44:19. | :44:23. | |
than the singing? Singing is always the first love. Hard work these road | :44:24. | :44:27. | |
shows recording day after day. Some of the things I found on the skip to | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
the country and Cash in the Attic, let's not go there. I love the fact | :44:32. | :44:37. | |
I have got my own show weekends on ITV. I still do a lot for the BBC as | :44:38. | :44:42. | |
well and when I am not doing the radio or television I, it is great. | :44:43. | :44:47. | |
Tell us about the new album. It is the follow-up to the first one this | :44:48. | :44:51. | |
year. One voice was released in April and this is not a record | :44:52. | :44:54. | |
company spin or newspaper rubbish but I was having dinner with my mum | :44:55. | :44:59. | |
and dad and I said I had done 16 albums as a kid and my dad went you | :45:00. | :45:04. | |
had done 17. He had quit a few glasses of wine so I didn't believe | :45:05. | :45:07. | |
him but he said there is an album in the airing cupboard. That we never | :45:08. | :45:12. | |
released because your voice broke so the record Company didn't want you | :45:13. | :45:15. | |
to release it. I didn't even remember recording this album of | :45:16. | :45:20. | |
folk songs. You did this 30 years ago? I was 15 and a half. I thought | :45:21. | :45:25. | |
this was really lovely. I decided to do a duet with myself because no one | :45:26. | :45:29. | |
has ever done this before. No guarantee it would work at all and | :45:30. | :45:32. | |
within ten seconds of both voices saying together it was really | :45:33. | :45:36. | |
emotional. There is in the back of the neck. We released it never | :45:37. | :45:41. | |
knowing what it would be like and it was my best released album ever, | :45:42. | :45:45. | |
three in the pop charts, 16 weeks at 11. On the back of that we have gone | :45:46. | :45:49. | |
back and found some of the other tracks that I did right at the | :45:50. | :45:51. | |
beginning of my life. Christmas carols. There is a duet with Terry | :45:52. | :45:58. | |
Wogan? Yes, my radio dad. I knew Terry from when I was 12 going on | :45:59. | :46:03. | |
this Job more than any other guest in the 80s and 90s and got to know | :46:04. | :46:08. | |
him through Radio 2 and we had a single through children in need, | :46:09. | :46:13. | |
Little Drummer boy. I put it on the record because Kerry is passing this | :46:14. | :46:18. | |
year. And your daughter is following in your footsteps in showbiz? She | :46:19. | :46:22. | |
acts a locked. She has been doing it since she was nine, she is 14 now. | :46:23. | :46:27. | |
She has been in Canada for eight weeks doing a film but no one really | :46:28. | :46:30. | |
knows she is my daughter because I wanted to do it on her own back. She | :46:31. | :46:35. | |
goes from film to film. She has a much better light than me. What will | :46:36. | :46:40. | |
Christmas be like for you? I make the kids watch the snowman all the | :46:41. | :46:47. | |
time. With a stick. I have got a couple of concerts towards the end | :46:48. | :46:50. | |
of the week and then I called the front door and just family time, eat | :46:51. | :46:57. | |
too much, drink too much, watch load of rubbish on telly alloy should | :46:58. | :47:00. | |
point out that Christmas Eve and Christmas Day I am on the television | :47:01. | :47:04. | |
ten times so I am really sorry now. Ten times? Sweeping up, aren't you? | :47:05. | :47:11. | |
Get off our screens, I want some airtime! You have to start singing | :47:12. | :47:16. | |
yourself. You will be singing at the end of the you. A Northern Ireland | :47:17. | :47:20. | |
welcome for for Aled Jones! Time for more wisdom from our school | :47:21. | :47:24. | |
kids in Enniskillen and Carryduff. And Vinny has one or two | :47:25. | :47:27. | |
not-so-pretty pictures to show them. # Bring out the bells... What do you | :47:28. | :47:54. | |
like about Christmas? Riding my bike. You haven't got the bike get! | :47:55. | :48:06. | |
I have a bike. It might be small. I have a tiny baby one. With | :48:07. | :48:11. | |
stabilisers on it. You want a big bike. Who is that? He looks like | :48:12. | :48:18. | |
you're grander. He is the President. That's right. Donald. Donald Duck. | :48:19. | :48:28. | |
It's a bit scary, OK? Are you ready? Who do you think this is? Work | :48:29. | :48:35. | |
person. He doesn't work a lot, to be fair. Is he the new second | :48:36. | :48:41. | |
President? That's a scary thought for all of us. Our bus driver. Civil | :48:42. | :48:48. | |
servant. You think he is a butler? Boss guy. He looks grumpy. He is a | :48:49. | :48:56. | |
grumpy man! He is. He gets into fights. He does this a lot. Give me | :48:57. | :49:07. | |
an answer. He's kind of fat. Do you think he could be Santa on his day | :49:08. | :49:17. | |
off? What! Are you ready? I like being on TV. So does Stephen Nolan, | :49:18. | :49:22. | |
he is on it a lot. Do you ever watch? Nope. Who do think you might | :49:23. | :49:29. | |
be? Maybe someone very special in the world. He thinks so. | :49:30. | :49:30. | |
APPLAUSE. Thank you. Now, Christmas is a time for giving | :49:31. | :49:35. | |
and there's lots of people all around Northern Ireland who do | :49:36. | :49:38. | |
some great work in the community. One person who is seated right up | :49:39. | :49:41. | |
there in our studio audience and who deserves to be recognised | :49:42. | :49:44. | |
is Moira Cullen. Moira, you weren't really | :49:45. | :49:49. | |
expecting this, were you?! Tell us what you do and why you have | :49:50. | :50:02. | |
been nominated to be recognised. I teach mathematics to young people, | :50:03. | :50:08. | |
15 and 16-year-olds who are not in school, whether they are excluded or | :50:09. | :50:16. | |
self excluded, but they are an alternative education. Did you leave | :50:17. | :50:21. | |
on your phone? Who are you? Who are you? I'm Finola. We ask you to turn | :50:22. | :50:31. | |
the phone off? Who is this. Hello? Rushing. I'm in the middle of a TV | :50:32. | :50:43. | |
show and you are disturbing it. Roisin who? Roisin King? Do you know | :50:44. | :50:54. | |
Roisin King. She's phoning us tonight. Shisha sister. She is in | :50:55. | :51:04. | |
Boston. No, she's not. Yes years. Though she's not. Oh my God! | :51:05. | :51:22. | |
You don't get to spend Christmas together. Not in about 40 years. | :51:23. | :51:51. | |
What are you thinking? I cant believe it. Tell me about your | :51:52. | :51:58. | |
family. That is my daughter. And beside her is my husband and my son, | :51:59. | :52:06. | |
Declan and shameless. In the front here... And my two brothers. And | :52:07. | :52:16. | |
that is all of us. Stand up until we see you! | :52:17. | :52:43. | |
Well-dressed, ladies and gentlemen. I really hope that you have a lovely | :52:44. | :52:47. | |
Christmas together. You have got some good news, Roisin, some good | :52:48. | :52:54. | |
news to tell the family. I am going to bring my christening robes back | :52:55. | :53:00. | |
home, I'm going to be a granny. For the first time. Don't be giving out | :53:01. | :53:05. | |
names! Give them a round of applause, ladies and gentlemen. | :53:06. | :53:08. | |
APPLAUSE. Now, I smell something | :53:09. | :53:15. | |
good over here. Andrew, how have | :53:16. | :53:16. | |
you been getting on? I have been slaving away. Look at | :53:17. | :53:29. | |
that! There are lovely. These are our snow globes, a bit of sparkle. | :53:30. | :53:36. | |
They are amazing. I didn't get it, I didn't understand it at the start. | :53:37. | :53:42. | |
Now I do. You can do fondant figures, a little bit of rosemary to | :53:43. | :53:47. | |
look like Christmas trees. You have cooked for royalty. I have the | :53:48. | :53:53. | |
chance to cook for Prince William. I made a cake for him. Yet you! You | :53:54. | :54:01. | |
promise me that I could eat one. Can I eat Santa? I would recommend | :54:02. | :54:12. | |
lifting off the bobble. Lifted off. -- lift it off. It is lovely. It is | :54:13. | :54:23. | |
quite solid. Santa is probably quite solid. Santa is as hard as a rock. | :54:24. | :54:29. | |
Give Andrew a round of applause. Just before we go, time | :54:30. | :54:35. | |
for some Christmas messages And very very happy Christmas to you | :54:36. | :54:53. | |
and to all your viewers and especially the audience there, I'm | :54:54. | :55:01. | |
sure they're all half full. Well, Stephen, you big howling, wishing | :55:02. | :55:04. | |
you and everyone on the Nolan show were very happy Christmas and to all | :55:05. | :55:08. | |
you folks back home, have a very happy Christmas and a prosperous New | :55:09. | :55:12. | |
Year. We had a great year in 2016 and I hope you have had a lovely | :55:13. | :55:16. | |
year and have a lovely Christmas and best wishes for 2017. | :55:17. | :55:24. | |
APPLAUSE. Just for me to say, thank you for listening to the radio | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
programmes and watching the television shows, I really do not | :55:29. | :55:31. | |
take it for granted. From me to you, thank you, have a lovely Christmas. | :55:32. | :55:35. | |
Thank you for coming tonight. Singing us out with the magical | :55:36. | :55:37. | |
Christmas classic Walking In # The people far below | :55:38. | :55:39. | |
are sleeping as we fly. # I'm finding I can fly | :55:40. | :56:22. | |
so high above with you. # Nobody down below | :56:23. | :57:00. | |
believes their eyes. # Everyone who sees us, greets us as | :57:01. | :58:05. | |
we fly. # We are walking in the air... | :58:06. | :58:09. | |
# Walking in the air... APPLAUSE. Hello there. Do you want | :58:10. | :58:36. | |
to come and sit on the big seat? Do you want to sit here? So, tell me | :58:37. | :58:46. | |
what happens on Christmas Eve, who comes down the chimney? Santer. | :58:47. | :58:51. | |
Santa? Really? Have you ever heard Santa before? Where have you heard | :58:52. | :58:57. | |
him? I have seen him in the steakhouse. Does he have a bigger | :58:58. | :59:02. | |
belly than me? Not really sure. Do you think Santer... | :59:03. | :59:09. | |
LAUGHTER. APPLAUSE. | :59:10. | :59:17. | |
Santa Claus has left some presents for you early. There is a present | :59:18. | :59:26. | |
for you from Santa Claus. And there is a present for you and all the | :59:27. | :59:30. | |
bombs and dads will give you a round of applause. | :59:31. | :59:35. | |
APPLAUSE. -- all the mothers and fathers. | :59:36. | :59:37. |