Episode 86 - What's in a Name? - The Talking Derry Girls tie up some loose ends.

Marie-Louise finds her true self and Jeanie discovers that the only member of her family to embrace their family identity is Charlie the dog. Meanwhile Pauline confesses to telling people that Marie-Louise is a girl to marry. 3 years since their first chat with "Derry Girls" creator Lisa McGee the girls are nostalgic about that memorable encounter..wonder if Lisa still prefers a cream finger to a cream horn? Jeanie has reignited her David Beckham flame, Pauline claims only to have binge watched his 4 part Netflix documentary "Beckham" for the Spice Girls footage and Marie-Louise is prepping for a special broadcast from the Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Bellaghy Co Derry to commemorate Book Week NI and the 10th anniversary of the Nobel Laureate’s death. Anyone who has heard the Radio 4 broadcast of Loose Ends will know that "Blue Lights" writers and creators Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson were guests. Marie-Louise co hosted - Declan has said that the girls could be extras, wonder if he remembers? NOTES  Marie-Louise co-hosting Loose Ends on BBC Radio 4 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001rgqz (available for 30 days)  Clive Anderson  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Anderson Blue Lights  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14466018/ Belfast International Arts Festival -https://belfastinternationalartsfestival.com/2023-festival/ Take That podcast coming soon -https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/42Kvn2/ Beckham on Netflix  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Beckham Soweto Gospel Choir -https://www.sowetogospelchoir.com/ Rogue Agent  https://www.rogueagentfilm.com/ James Norton -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Norton_(actor) Robert Freegard -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hendy-Freegard Marie-Louise’s Culture Cafe on BBC Sounds  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001rqjd Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Bellaghy, Co Derry https://seamusheaneyhome.com/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1995/heaney/facts/ Bellaghy  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellaghy Glenn Patterson  https://www.glennpatterson.com/page4 The Letters of Seamus Heaney  https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571341085-the-letters-of-seamus-heaney/ Four Sides of Seamus Heaney BBC Radio Sounds - 4 part series   https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m001pt1p (available for over a year) Spice Girls  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_Girls (As featured in Series 3 of Derry Girls Ep1 - The Affair) City of Derry International Choir Festival (mass sing along to Dreams on 19th October) - https://derrychoirfest.com/ Vote for us (and get all your friends to vote for us as well) for listeners choice in the Irish Podcast Awards - you have to vote before Thursday 19th October (remember to do the email bit at the end to make it count)  https://www.theirishpodcastawards.ie/#listenerschoice Earlier TDGs episodes we refer to in Ep86  Ep 9 - This ’n That  Ep 13 - The first time we talked to Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee  Ep 66 - Blue Lights  Ep 67 - Take a Beat with Declan Lawn (co-writer of Blue Lights)