Listen to a selection of interviews and reports that have featured on the programme.

CELEBRATING THE AUDIO LANDSCAPE

During Paul Moore’s three weeks filing in at Radio Foyle we have brought you our alternative to Thought For The Day with our soundscape features which have taken the form of audio postcards recorded for us by student Rachel McClure at different locations around the North West.Paul brings the features to a quite fitting sonic climax.

MAGILLIAN GREENCASTLE FERRY SOUNDSCAPE

Student Rachel McClure illustrates the art of
the soundfeature with this soundscape she recorded of the Magillian Greencastle Ferry.

BARRY'S AMUSEMENTS SOUNDSCAPE

Rachel McClure sends an audio postcard
from Barry's Amusements in Portrush.

MONTAGE OF SOUNDCAPES

Rachel McClure brings our soundscape feature to a fitting end by creating a montage of the soundscapes she recorded over the series. From the Ulster Scots Festival and the Roe Valley Country Park via the bowling alleys of Pennyburn ,Rachel paints an acoustic picture of the North West. How many locations and sounds you can recognise?

DERRY CHAT

Is the Derry style of chat and banter disappearing? Well, that’s what local academic John Thompson feels, and not only that, but he feels the Derry wit has travelled down the road to Strabane. Paul debated the issue with John and proud defender of Strabane with Vincent Sharkey.

OUR MAN IN CHINA

With the biggest sporting event in the world the Olympic Games taking place in Beijing in China, who better to give us a guide to this extraordinary country and what it’s like to be there than Derry man Sean Mc Ananey who lives there.

KINKY FRIEDMAN COWBOY EXTRAORDINAIRE

Paul Moore catches a word with Texas’s most famous Jewish cowboy the one and only Kinky Friedman.

And you can access Kinky’s website here.

ULSTER SCOTS MUSIC WORKSHOPS

Stuart Buchanan illustrates to Paul
the history behind some well known tunes

BIG NIGHT MUSICIANS PLAY LIVE

Sean McBride, Willie John Hegarty and Louise McKinney are just some of the talented musicians who play at the "Big Night" gatherings in Donegal. The gatherings are an attempt to recreate the old traditional ways people used to entertain one another by meeting up in a house to tell stories,recite poems or play music to each other. Louise, Sean and Willie John played live in studio to give Paul a brief glimpse of a bygone era.

BLUEGRASS MUSIC AND IT'S ORGINS
As part of the Maiden City and Foyle Ulster Scots Festival bluegrass band Accoustic Grass played live on the City's Walls. They came in and played live in studio for Paul and one of the band renowned local musician Frankie Robinson told Paul about Bluegrass music and it's Ulster Scots links.

THE LOST ART OF "THUMBING"

Time was when you were travelling in the car that on the outskirts of every town there was a row of people – usually young people – thumbing a lift. But no more. Have they all now got their own cars, are they travelling by public transport or are times just too dangerous to thumb. Irish Times journalist Brian O’Connell set out to thumb around Ireland to see what our attitude to thumbing is now and both he and former hitchhiker Gillian Kennedy from Derry gave Paul the lowdown on this lost art.

HITCH HIKING TALE FROM HELL

And Gillian’s and Brian’s hitch hiking tails prompted one listener John from the Waterside to ring in with his own “thumbing story”….

BALLYMAGORRY GRAVEYARD

Paul Moore in the company of Dr William Roulston visits one of the Northwest's oldest cemeteries, Old Leckpatrick Graveyard outside the village of Ballymagorry.

JACQUELINE MCKAY'S COT

How many times have you been doing something and thought to yourself I could make a better job of that? That’s exactly what one young Derry mother, Jacqueline McKay thought when she had her first baby and couldn’t find a suitable cot for her needs. But she did what most of us don’t do and went ahead, designed her own and is having success in beginning to have it manufactured and marketed. Jacqueline joined Paul in studio to tell him what inspired her to invent a new cot.

ERNIE BADNESS

Control Zone were a punk band from Omagh at a time when every town had its own punk band. One of its members, Ernie Badness, was an important figure in the punk scene across the UK. Paul Moore visits Ernie -
otherwise known as Tony McGartland - in his home to look back on one of the most exciting and important periods in popular music.

NASA'S BIRTHDAY

Nasa's celebrating its 50th anniversary. Ash McFadden of the Greencastle Planetarium spoke to Paul Moore, and admitted to having more than a passing interest in Nasa's rockets.

CHARITY FOOTBALL MATCH

Football agents and scouts from around the world arrived in Derry city as the finest footballers to ever come out of the Creggan took on a crack international selection. The game was in aid of locally based charities. Eddie Kerr and Elly Odhiambo of the match joined Paul Moore in studio, with Raymond McCartney on the phone.

MICKEY MCGUINNESS

Paul featured excerpts of people celebrating the old tradition of the "Big Night", where people would gather in a house and entertain one another with songs and stories. One of those who attended the Big Night, was local Derry man Mickey McGuinness who told Paul what attracted him to attend....

JIM FITZPATRICK

Jim Fitpatrick is one of Ireland’s most famous artists. Not only is he the founding father of what is termed the Celtic Art school, he also designed covers for T Rex and Thin Lizzy albums and, most famously, drew the now iconic Che Guevara poster which adorned millions of student bedrooms across the globe. Jim was in Derry recently to speak at the University of Ulster summer school and Paul shared a cup of tea with him in the sun at a quayside restaurant.

WORKING FOR THE LOVE OF IT?

Most of us work to make money yet recently two big money winners, a cleaner and a McDonalds worker, decided they would keep on working. So just how much do we value work, is our identity bound up in our careers? Paul spoke to two people: local baker Tony Paige who even at the age of 82 loves to bake, and Steven Overall of the Work Foundation, a think tank that deals with work and employment. Steven began by giving his view on the two money winners who decided to keep on working.

RADIO FREE DERRY

Jimmy Porter is a man famous for his involvement with Radio Free Derry. His love of radio and broadcasting has been a life long passion, indeed Jimmy is known throughout the world for his short wave radio broadcasts. Anybody driving out the Culmore Road towards Donegal couldn't but notice a large mast as they drive along that road. That mast has been used since the 50's by Jimmy for his short wave broadcasts across the world, and he spoke to Paul Moore.

ROBERT OPIE

A campaign has been launched to save the British postcard. Postcards are one of those objects that people like to collect so who better to talk to about just why we should value postcards is the famous memborallia collector Robert Opie.