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KID-ULTS

Academics rediscover a phenomenon that never really went away - grown up children who can't afford to live away from home.

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A BRIDGE TOO FAR?

Sleek, sinuous, and graceful. And that's just the plans for a new bridge for Derry. Anita looks back on bridges already crossed, and takes issue with the naysayers.

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RECESSION BITES

Anita discovers that the eastern part of Northern Ireland is feeling the effects of the recession, and wonders why sandwich bars seem immune.

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A LADY WHO LUNCHES

A waitress considers whether to offer Anita the seat by the kitchen door or the one beside the loo.

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WHAT MOTHERS WANT

Why what most mothers want is what most children won't give them, and a mother's place is in the wrong.

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2AM BULLETIN

A 2am bulletin seemed to turn Northern Ireland's clock back 30 years. Anita looks back on the week which brought the return of long lensed intrusion into private grief, callously clever graffiti, and a silent cry for peace from the public heart.

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IN THE DUMPS

A warning to the City Council - beware the outrage of the middle classes.

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VALUES

Why do we rush to judgement? Jade Goody wins sympathy as the Press dubs the remarkable Gail Trimble the "answering machine".

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SINNING

Does anyone, these days, remember the seven deadly sins?

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KELVINGATE

Back after holidays, Anita asks what has Gregory Campbell got in common with Blondin - and her take on project Kelvin.

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MAKE DO

Anita considers whether the current generation have the talents of the last.

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CHEERFUL

Anita discovers some reasons to be cheerful.

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EDDIE STEPS IN

After Anita succumbed to the cold, Eddie Kerr took over her slot for a week. He urged Christmas bargain hunters to enjoy the season - while shops last.

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THE STRONGER SEX

In time of flu, why is it that the women are able to soldier on?

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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WORD

Anita discovers the most beautiful word in the English language - on a visit to hospital for breast screening.

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THE WONDER OF WOOLIES

A shoplifter's dream? Anita looks back at the glory days of Woolies, and considers how children suck you dry.

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AT YOUR CONVENIENCE

Mascara, hair driers, and a little gentle character assassination. Anita explains what really happens in the Ladies.

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QUIGGY

Anita looks to Eoghan Quigg's unusual hairstyle to lighten the mood.

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HOMELESS

Anita wonders what other city than Derry would have people sleeping rough in the doorway of a boarded up hostel.

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TASTE AND DECENCY

Anita with her thoughts on the changing face of broadcasting.

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RIVER OF CHANGE

Anita's thoughts have been occupied by the changing face of the Foyle.

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HUMMING OPERA

Ridiculous or sublime? Anita's verdict on operatic music.

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STATE OF IGNORANCE

"The woman tempted me and I did eat" - Eve took the rap for Adam, but after 40 years of feminism, is it any different now?

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BLUE BAGS FAGS AND CARDS

"Street drinkers sit sunning themselves consuming their liquid breakfast" - Anita has her say on antisocial activity.

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"MEN'S CLUB"

Do the men of Derry need a "Big Boys club" where they can talk about their problems?

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WINDCHILL

Anita seeks comfort from a puppet government with pocket money as she faces into the icy darkness of a chilly winter.

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RAZZMATAZZ

What with all the razzmatazz associated with the American elections, Paul set a challenge for Anita - how do you "sex up" our own local politicians?

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NO SHAME

Anita Robinson says she won't be shamed into clean living after Andrew Lansley, the Shadow Health Secretary, said there was no excuse for being fat.

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SERIOUS

Anita attempts to lift the mood in serious times.

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SCIENTIFIC

Anita deals with a scientific matter.

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KNICKERS AND TART

As we face an economic recession, Anita talks about falling knickers, the price of a lemon tart, and how we are being strangled by the purse strings!

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VIGIL FOR EMMETT

Hours after the murder of 22 year old Emmett Shiels, hundreds of people attended a vigil, to be told that the community had come to a fork in the road: it had to choose between the violence of the past and the new politics of the future.

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DAMNED LIES, AND THE APPRENTICE

Lee McQueen talked himself into a £100,000 a year apprenticeship with Sir Alan Sugar, even though he lied on his CV. Anita Robinson ruminates on the realities of "The Apprentice".

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A SOW'S EAR

A listener accused Paul of being "all gloom and doom." So he invited Anita Robinson to show him how to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

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BELT TIGHTENING

As the credit crunch bites Anita Robinson has been chatting to Paul about tightening her belt.

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ON THE STREETS

Is Derry the centre of its own universe - or at the outskirts of somebody else's?

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NEW BALLS!

New balls, please! Anita Robinson muses on the issues which matter this rain-sodden summer; why, for example, does one of the Williams sisters wear her bra outside her dress?

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LANGUAGE

Anita Robinson is here - or there - considering the complexities of language in this province, in these occupied six counties, in Ulster, in the north, in Northern Ireland (take your pick).

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FEDORA

First Minister Ian Paisley may be cutting a dash in his black fedora, but Anita Robinson's less impressed with the sartorial elegance of some of his ministerial colleagues.

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WEXFORD TRAGEDY

The lessons to be learned from the tragedy in Wexford, in which four members of the Dunne family lost their lives.