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APPLAUSE . A packed show tonight. It is a

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politician free zone. We've Andrew Smyth from

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The Great British Bake Off who will be creating one

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of his festive masterpieces, Bryan McFadden and Keith Duffy

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from Boyzlife will be dropping by. And there's music from Aled Jones,

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as well as a few surprises for one But to kick it all off and get

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the Christmas party started - it's the Belfast Community Gospel

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Choir! # Rocking around the Christmas tree

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and # Mistletoe up where you can see,

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every couple # Walking around the Christmas tree,

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let the Christmas spirit ring. # Who will get a sentimental feeling

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when # Voices singing let's be jolly,

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deck the halls with boughs of holly. # Everyone dancing merrily in the

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new old-fashioned way. # You will get a sentimental feeling

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when you hear voices singing let's be jolly, deck the bowls with --

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deck the holes with boughs of # Everyone dancing merrily in the

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new old-fashioned way. # The weather outside is frightful

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but the fire is still # Since we've no place to go, let it

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snow, let it snow, let it snow. # It doesn't show signs of stopping,

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so I've got some corner before popping.

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# The legs are away download, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

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# Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

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APPLAUSE Ladies and gentlemen the Belfast

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Community Gospel Choir! This feel-good TV is good.

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Now my first guest has been really difficult to tie down -

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he's been working around the clock and hasn't had a single day off

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But we've tracked him down and we hope that we've managed

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to get the satellite link up for this very special guest.

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There he his -- there he is, good evening! Hello, is that Stephen? I

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am a little bit deaf but hopefully you will be telling me I have been a

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good boy this Christmas. Yes, I'm glad you rang me because Santa's

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phone is a mobile phone and it is pay as you ho ho ho. I am very busy

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but I always have time to talk to you and the good people who are with

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you. I have been looking at my book, Stephen. It says Stephen Nolan, aged

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40 plus, 1982, the present you wanted, connect four. I loved

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connect four. And your railway set in train set. Did you ever ask for

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goalkeeping gloves? I loved Bruce Grobbelaar! This isn't clap but that

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isn't scripted. I used to fly through the air like a young Finn.

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My else tell me there is a very special boy called Nathan Scott. He

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has had nearly as many letters and cards sent to him this year as I

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have. I'm observant elf of mine spotted his mum's appeal and social

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media. He was just around the three age. He was a completely different

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child from what we have known. Autism wasn't even heard of. His

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daddy's birthday cards went up in September and they were viewed

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numerous times in the day. It was automatic in the morning for Nathan

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to comment and it was as if he was just making sure that the details

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that he had stored on here that everything was just perfect the way

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he had seen of the day before. My Facebook of the -- appeal, it went

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up on the Sunday morning and an average on 300 friends on my page,

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if one tenth of those people were to send Nathan a card it would make his

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weekday, it was unreal. There are over 2000 cards in this house with

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promises of more to come and they have come from all over the world.

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The laughter that comes behind that child when he opened those cards,

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especially when he opens and glitter or sequins for out but it is like,

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where did that come out of? His whole emotional well-being since the

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start of December has been nothing but happiness. This has been the

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best Christmas ever for us. APPLAUSE

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What a beautiful little boy, Nathan. I hope you have a really happy

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Christmas and everybody here is going to give you a huge round of

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applause, make them, happy Christmas!

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APPLAUSE -- Nathan. Is there an Ava

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McWilliams? With the be an Ava McWilliams in the studio tonight?

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Put your hand up if there is an Ava McWilliams in the studio. Hello. It

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says you have been a very good girl. Helping your mum Evelyn and your dad

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Nigel looking after your younger sister Grace, is that right? And

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what do you do to help mum and dad? I read to grace and do her homework.

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And do you help her at school? Yeah. And what would you like from Father

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Christmas this year? A playhouse. I think I might be able to manage

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that. Anything else? What about a yo-yo? Does Grace want a yo-yo?

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Grace is beautiful. What colour yo-yo, Grace? Blue. If your sister a

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good girl looking after you? APPLAUSE

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That is lovely. It is very good to love one another, especially at

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Christmas time. I have it all written down in mime big book and I

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will be bringing you presence. I've got to go. Everybody say goodbye to

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Santa. Merry Christmas everyone. Now Christmas wouldn't be complete

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without the mince pies, One man who knows all

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about cooking up a treat or two is runner-up in this year's

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Great British Bakeoff, Andrew Smyth. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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. Hello. Great to see you. You are going to make is something

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Christmassy tonight, are you? Yes, I will be making some snow globe

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cupcakes. I made these earlier. I will do some icing. The main thing

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will be these little gelatin bobbles. They are edible. They will

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sit on top. Your own personal snow globe. I was going to use that. So

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how does this work? I have got to melt down some gelatin. A couple

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more seconds in the microwave. You soften some gelatin with a bit of

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water and some bowling is here that I have lightly greased which I will

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dip in coming give them a little twirl and they take overnight to

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dry. You can cut and peeled them straight off again. Hopefully! Very

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posh, and you? I have got different accent. I am from the Hollywood.

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Hollywood... LAUGHTER

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I have lived in England for seven years so it takes the edges of the

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accent. You don't close like that. It has got a really thin layer of

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gelatin. Do you want to give it a go? Do a pick one of this? Not a

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whole block, just one! A little dog and a twirl. Little dog? -- little

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dog. Overnight? This is my blue Peter moment. Some I made earlier

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these have got the Delta and hardened. This is where it could all

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go you have got this totally edible

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that you can then put on top of your cupcake. Well done so far!

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APPLAUSE My mum and grandmother taught me the

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basics when I was younger. I was able to kind of practice myself a

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lot more later. I have always enjoyed my food. It was the next

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base thing. If you go to pity is a big reason you can get a nice stuff

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so I thought why not alone to make myself? Is it true you designed jet

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engines? Yes, four days a week and then one day a week for baking. I

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helped to design jet engines. I work in analysis. Don't want to bore

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people with the detail I can't but I take engine data. That is what I do

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four days a week. You're a smart guy and we are very proud you obviously

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in the Bake Off. The people back home really got behind me and I got

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so many messages and people behind me and people were proud to see

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people representing Northern Ireland. We like to see someone

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doing really well. What was your experience on at? The sick abating

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after it? I had to have a bit of a break from baking afterwards because

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it had been quite intense. How intense desert? I was juggling it

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with the day job -- day job. I was doing six hours of baking every

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night after two practice. It was quite intensive. What are you doing

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now? I am going to just another one of these. Then once you have got

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these, you trim off the bottom. I will make up some buttercream icing

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which will go on top. I have some ground down, little sugared pearls

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that you can get in the supermarket. Chocolate Orange. One of those ready

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to go for you later on. Don't do what you did to the gelatin to

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those. We will have some gingerbread men and it will be a nice snowy

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scene hopefully by the end of the show. Why is that utensil important?

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That is just a spring, Stephen. LAUGHTER

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-- spoon. And you have the knife there, don't you? We will come back

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to you later. I know I have been having a bit of banter but we are

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proud of you and thank you for representing us so well across the

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water. APPLAUSE

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As it's Christmas, and we thought you might like to hear

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Vinny went along to Millennium Integrated Primary School in

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Carryduff and Holy Trinity Primary in Enniskillen to see what they had

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to say about Christmas and a few other things.

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What are you? I'm a sheep in the play. I had to ask for a leg

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warmers. Sheep don't wear legwarmers. What do you think Brexit

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is? You eat it. Serial? May be some run some ice cream store. What do

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you think of the new 20 mph speed limit in Belfast? In Germany, you

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can go any speed. Not at eight miles per. I would go zooming, so I would.

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I would be a princess. Eat sweets all day. Who would run the country

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if you were doing that? My mum. I would go to the beach. They would

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run the country if he were at the beach? I would ask one of my

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friends. Like me! Yes. What do you think about the waiting lists at

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hospitals. How heavy UI. How would you make waiting lists shorter? If

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you are smaller. You get seen quicker. Yes. Is give them a round

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of applause. APPLAUSE.

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And there will be more from kids later.

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Christmas isn't always a happy time, people can feel lonely and be under

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We wanted to say thank you to a few people who this year are going that

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extra mile to ease the pain for those less fortunate.

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Kris Nixon - you're just about to launch this year's

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This is the second year we did it. It is a repository for people to

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drop things off if they think that people might need them and for

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people to get what they need. You don't have to ask for help. The idea

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is that members of the public would put things in the draw and someone

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who is in need, they can come up and take what they need from the

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kindness drawer. Clothes, toiletries, books, everything that

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someone might urgently need on the street. There are some novels in

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there. An added bonus. This is in some other countries as well. Yes.

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It is moving into other countries as well. People have really taken to

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it. It is superb. We had a lot of concern when we put it in Belfast,

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people saying they would get destroyed and wrecked, but people

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treated them well. It was handled perfectly, Belfast did us proud. Are

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they filled up much by members of the public? Yes. You will get highs

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and lows of what is in there and over the course, we had it for two

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months last year and it did not run dry. It ran itself. You were

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promised yourself? Yes, when I was a teenager. I was homeless at

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Christmas. It is not easy. What do you do on Christmas Day, I think

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about it, for me, my mum is in a little semidetached house, and I

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love going into her home and she has got the table all set out, she is

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usually burning the turkey and the peas are really hard, but I love her

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so much, I don't care and it tastes beautiful because she has made it.

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What is it like when you don't have that Christmas Day and there is no

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one around you? It's not as bad as you think, because as much as you

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are used to Christmas being a big thing, the previous days weeks and

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months have not been great so you are not building up to Christmas

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will be fantastic, because you know what your life is at that point and

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you're not looking forward to what you know you will not have. Can we

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doubt about the way can we expect to see these? I can say where yet. We

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like to pop them up in different places and see how Belfast takes to

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them but we will have them out this week and encourage people to put

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things in. Toiletries are always imported. Wet weather clothes.

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Anything you can spare. It is a lovely idea.

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Carol Doey - you're a community worker at The Hub in Cookstown.

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And for the last number of years you and a team of volunteers have

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been providing 100 or so Christmas dinners at the centre.

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We open up on Christmas Day and cook dinner for people, people feel

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lonely for different reasons and we felt it would break our hearts if we

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knew that there was one person sitting on their own on Christmas

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Day who did not have food or that someone was bringing them in food

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rather than joining us in a family atmosphere. We absolutely love it,

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it is a brilliant day, and we encourage anyone who is out there in

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our area are further afield, we picked them up, we send them home

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with tea, there is music all day, we give our time. That must mean the

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world to someone. Do you get all shapes and sizes, different ages?

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Absolutely. Some families who are not as financially well off, we

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might have a man who has lost his wife, maybe families who have not

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agreed over the years and they could be on their own, anyone, people feel

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lonely for different reasons, so we invite them to come and join us. If

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I was lonely, I would not ask you go to a place where it says, are you

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lonely, so we manipulate the situation is. We tell a few lies and

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get people to join us for Christmas Day. My year said am we had eight

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turkeys and we needed people to help them cook them and eat them. It is a

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lovely gesture. Alan McClure, you're

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the co-ordinator of Is there a big demand

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for food banks this year? This year, in the past six months,

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the food banks across Northern Ireland that up under the umbrella

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of the trial saw trust have fed 13,000 people. North Belfast has fed

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1000 of those, but what really compounds that for me is that half

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of the 1000 people that we have fed our children. Wow! I find that a

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sign of where we live and that is hard to take. You must see a lot of

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people under financial pressure at this time of year. There is a lot of

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people, recently, my phone has increased with people calling who

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are employed. Normally my clients are unemployed but we are getting

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more who are employed at and they are finding the next pay packet hard

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to reach. How would families manage if it were not for the food parcels?

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I have people who ring me quite regularly, different people who have

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not eaten for maybe for, five or six days. I have people who ring and

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they say, I can't take my medication, because I have no food,

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it says on my prescribed medication that I have to eat before taking

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this and I cannot take those prescribed medications because I

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have no food. Thank you for what you do. Ladies and gentlemen, give them

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a round of applause. APPLAUSE. Thank you, sir.

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If you're like me, you'll just love driving past the houses that

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are covered with twinkling fairy lights and inflatable snowmen!

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There's Lynn C Nelson's house in Belfast, shining bright.

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And Marie Fullerton's home in Four Winds is looking very festive.

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And it's not just houses, look at these, Randalstown Young Farmers

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have lit up their tractors for Christmas - brilliant!

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Well, one family in Tandragee have really gone all out to brighten up

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Tim Hancock and his dad Mark spend the entire year planning

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and designing their outdoor Christmas illuminations display.

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They were delighted when we asked could the BBC come and film

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So we decided to have a bit fun and send along Keith Law,

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our fake environmental official, who is concerned about excessive

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light levels affecting the nearby Armagh Observatory.

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We have everything from nativities, elves, Santos, snowmen, anything you

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can imagine really. Dad started, about 2000 and Bor at two figures,

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one for me and my brother, we kept visiting the sales and we got to

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where we are today. He is the Project manager and I am apparently

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be Assistant Project manager. Which generally means, gopher, I have to

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follow instructions and do what I am told. Tim and Mark think we are here

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to cover the switch on for a BBC News programme. Everything OK? Good.

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Little do they know that Patricia is not a reporter, but is in fact one

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of our researchers. Has anyone said that you're both crazy? Yes.

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Christmas is talked about all year. We have been doing this display in

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smaller amounts since the year 2000. We had just moved here in the last

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month, for us, if it makes one person smile as a result of what we

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has done, then it would make it worthwhile. Five - four, three, two,

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one... It is absolutely fantastic, we did

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not have any technical hitches. What about your nerves? Now that they are

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on and nothing has tripped, that is the good thing. Our prankster Keith

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says he has had a complaint about excessive light levels and is off to

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investigate. Tim is delighted it has all gone so well. It comes down to

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the plan, if you don't have an effective plan in place, that is

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when things start to go wrong. And things are about to go very, very

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wrong. Here comes an angry official with his clipboard! Excuse me. Are

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you the person behind the lights? Yes. Are you aware of your houses?

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Yes. Can we do this... They are in contravention... We are within a 12

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mile exclusion zone of the Armagh planetarium. As most people to see

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the star is. Do you have an exemption certificate? Exemption

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certificate? No. We have everything checked out... You have not checked

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out with the environmental unit. The display is emitting too much light

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and is breaking Keith's regulations. Get them turned off. Turn off. Time

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for our man on the in to pull the plug on the display. Everyone is

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plunged into darkness as the lights display is shut down.

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APPLAUSE. We'll go back to them a little bit

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later to see just how rattled Mark and Tim get when tempers start

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to flare up! Now, my next guests

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tonight are no strangers to playing in Belfast,

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but They've now got together to form

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their very own supergroup, Boyzlife. Let's have a look back

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to when Boyzone and Westlife # I hear myself say

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# Why can't this feeling displayed away

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# All dressed up and ready to rock 'n' roll...

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# Let the reason the love... Ladies and gentlemen, it is Keith

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Duffy and Bryan McFadden. Happy Christmas! It gets on my nerves when

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we have two good-looking men but at least they're not as good-looking as

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they were! When you look back on that, is it through rose tinted

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glasses? Even just talking to each other, we looked at the clips and we

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cannot remember when they were or where they work, it becomes a fuzzy

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haze. You have to remember, for me especially, you took a break, but

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for me, my time in Westlife was so quick. It all becomes one big mess

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in your head. I think the first few years we

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couldn't believe has accessible we work butted up to a stage is before

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a left where they stopped it. The Westlife boys carried on and game

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maybes started to enjoy it. For me it had become a little bit like

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that. You took a break, didn't you? We were together for six years and

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it was pretty crazy back when. I was quite content to keep going forward.

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We were at the top of our game. Like any business you build a duck to be

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the best band and why would you break it up? I wasn't for the break.

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It was suppose to be a year and it ended up being seven. The power must

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be quite seductive and the success. 20 number ones between you.

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APPLAUSE .

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I got most of them now. We have also got six lives between us! -- wives.

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Is it scary to let it go? It is at the time because Roman and Stephen

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did most of the lead vocals. I went on to do Coronation Street and then

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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.

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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

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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

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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!

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE And you can catch Boyzlife in

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Belfast on the 4th and 5th of April. Now, time for a few

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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.

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APPLAUSE Now I want you to meet

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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.

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LAUGHTER HE BEATBOXES. Stephen.

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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.

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