Anita Robinson: humorous, serious, irreverent, but always worth listening to. Listen to Anita Robinson every Friday on the Sarah Brett Show.  | | THE IMPORTANCE OF HANDBAGS | Anita Robinson explains why, in a woman's life, one thing will remain a priority. She must always know where her handbag is. | | ADULT EDUCATION | It's that time of year when peoples thoughts turn to signing up for interesting courses they feel really committed to. | | CATALOGUE SHOPPING | Strange things are available in a catalogue falling through a letterbox near you. | | WASTE FOOD | Does anyone remember what the phrase, Waste not, want not means? | | FORGETFULNESS | If returning to the house once after leaving it is a sign of stress, what is it, again, when you have to go back a second time? | | | DERRY FORTNIGHT | As the town shuts down, Anita gets busy learning the distinction between mizzle and drizzle. | | | DINOSAUR | Anita recalls a time when she spent big money on a dinosaur. | | | FACTORY GIRLS | Factory hooters no longer regulate the days of Anita Robinson. | | | MATTER OF FAITH | There are some things we used to believe. | | | ELECTION REFLECTION | Anita searches out a few reasons to be cheerful on the election trail. | | | TRAVEL | Does the travel chaos we've experienced show we've become more uncharitable? | | | FEAR | Is it part of the media's brief to frighten the public to death? | | | EASTER | Anita on what we really think of Easter. | | | ELECTION BLUES | Anita offers sympathy for channel surfers as sitting room saturation coverage of the election campaign begins. | | | WHERE'S THE CULTURE? | Is it true that Derry people don't go to plays unless they're in them? | | | LOVE OF ANIMALS | Anita aims to offend no-one, except animal lovers. | | | FEMINISM | Was it all worth it? | | | | MAIL ORDER | The perils of buying by mail order. | | | VALUES | How do lottery wins reflect the value we place on work? | | | MODEL CITY | A semi-naked model pictured in Ferryquay Gate gets Anita thinking | | | WELL HEELED | Victoria Beckham's footwear sets Anita back on her heels | | | PYJAMAS | Northern Ireland gets ahead of the latest trend in sartorial elegance. Apparently. | | SWEET TAKEOVER | The implications of one major announcement for each and every one of us. |
| | GET A GRIP | Anita finds supplies of true grit are running low. |
| | LOW TECH | Avoiding the race to become technologically literate. |
| | SWEET THOUGHT | Anita leads a crusade to bring back the tinned sweet. |
| | GETTING EXERCISED | Does working out help you lose weight? Anita considers whether fit is a feminist issue. |
| | UNHEALTHY SERVICE | Is this generation to be the last cared for by a National Health Service? |
| | SELLING GRANNY | Anita reveals what she'd like to do to the child who tried to sell her granny. |
| | BEAUTIFULLY STUPID | Women will never listen to trade unionists about beautifully stupid shoes. |
| | WHAT WOMEN WANT | Why do ageing feminists suddenly want to be with men cleverer than themselves? |
| | WASTE NOT | Anita carries on using food after its sell-by date. |
| | CROSS | A few authority figures get Anita cross. |
| | SUNBEDS | Yearning for freckles to join up to form a tan, and the perils of sunbeds. |
| | TRADITION | Party bags, colour co-ordinated wedding parties, and other rapidly evolving traditions. |
| | HYSTERIA | A dictionary helps to dissect the hysteria of fans. |
| | BARBECUE | Anita Robinson finds she's eating much less red meat these days. |
| | CYCLE | Anita on the attractions of pedal power. |
| | SHEDS | Anita considers the lure of sheds. |
| | HEAT | What is it that brings out the worst in us? Anita investigates. |
| | BRIGADOON | Anita comes to the alarming conclusion that she is living in Brigadoon. |
| | MILK | Anita Robinson discusses MPs expenses and if we also "milk" the system. |
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| DON'T WATCH NEWS Anita keeps calm and carries on. |
| | Listen | CUP RUNNETH OVER Anita considers a subject very close to her heart. |
| | Listen | INFECTED NEWS Have we encountered enough dirt, wonders Anita, as the possibilities of a swine flu pandemic infect the news. |
| | Listen | BUDGET Anita considers how like a bathtub Northern Ireland is, and tries to get her head around the Chancellor's Budget. |
| | Listen | KID-ULTS Academics rediscover a phenomenon that never really went away - grown up children who can't afford to live away from home. |
| | Listen | A BRIDGE TOO FAR? Sleek, sinuous, and graceful. And that's just the plans for a new bridge for Derry. |
| | Listen | 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. |
| | Listen | A LADY WHO LUNCHES A waitress considers whether to offer Anita the seat by the kitchen door or the one beside the loo. |
| | Listen | 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. |
| | Listen | 2AM BULLETIN A 2am bulletin seemed to turn Northern Ireland's clock back 30 years. |
| | Listen | IN THE DUMPS A warning to the City Council - beware the outrage of the middle classes. |
| | Listen | VALUES Why do we rush to judgement? Jade Goody wins sympathy as the Press dubs the remarkable Gail Trimble the "answering machine". |
| | Listen | SINNING Does anyone, these days, remember the seven deadly sins? |
| | Listen | KELVINGATE Back after holidays, Anita asks what has Gregory Campbell got in common with Blondin - and her take on project Kelvin. |
| | Listen | MAKE DO Anita considers whether the current generation have the talents of the last. |
| | Listen | CHEERFUL Anita discovers some reasons to be cheerful. |
| | Listen | 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. |
| | Listen | THE STRONGER SEX In time of flu, why is it that the women are able to soldier on? |
| | Listen | THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WORD Anita discovers the most beautiful word in the English language - on a visit to hospital for breast screening. |
| | Listen | THE WONDER OF WOOLIES A shoplifter's dream? Anita looks back at the glory days of Woolies, and considers how children suck you dry. |
| | Listen | AT YOUR CONVENIENCE Mascara, hair driers, and a little gentle character assassination. Anita explains what really happens in the Ladies. |
| | Listen | QUIGGY Anita looks to Eoghan Quigg's unusual hairstyle to lighten the mood. |
| | Listen | HOMELESS Anita wonders what other city than Derry would have people sleeping rough in the doorway of a boarded up hostel. |
| | Listen | TASTE AND DECENCY Anita with her thoughts on the changing face of broadcasting. |
| | Listen | RIVER OF CHANGE Anita's thoughts have been occupied by the changing face of the Foyle. |
| | Listen | HUMMING OPERA Ridiculous or sublime? Anita's verdict on operatic music. |
| | Listen | 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? |
| | Listen | BLUE BAGS FAGS AND CARDS "Street drinkers sit sunning themselves consuming their liquid breakfast" - Anita has her say on antisocial activity. |
| | Listen | "MEN'S CLUB" Do the men of Derry need a "Big Boys club" where they can talk about their problems? |
| | Listen | WINDCHILL Anita seeks comfort from a puppet government with pocket money as she faces into the icy darkness of a chilly winter. |
| | Listen | 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? |
| | Listen | 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. |
| | Listen | SERIOUS Anita attempts to lift the mood in serious times. |
| | Listen | SCIENTIFIC Anita deals with a scientific matter. |
| | Listen | 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! |
| | Listen | 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. |
| | Listen | 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". |
| | Listen | 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. |
| | Listen | BELT TIGHTENING As the credit crunch bites Anita Robinson has been chatting to Paul about tightening her belt. |
| | Listen | ON THE STREETS Is Derry the centre of its own universe - or at the outskirts of somebody else's? |
| | Listen | 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? |
| | Listen | 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). |
| | Listen | 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. |
| | Listen | WEXFORD TRAGEDY The lessons to be learned from the tragedy in Wexford, in which four members of the Dunne family lost their lives. |
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