What Makes A Derry Girl? podcast to launch on BBC Sounds

Presenter Anna Curran talks to four famous Derry girls in a new podcast, to hear about their connection to the city.

The TV series Derry Girls is based around women from Londonderry, who in the past, were crucial for the economic survival of the city through working in the shirt factories which housed the 44 shirt manufacturers there.

As wives and mothers, the women raised children during the dark days of the Northern Ireland Troubles. Through it all, there was empathy, humour and creativity which are now woven into the fabric of the city.

In What Makes A Derry Girl?, Anna Curran, who is also from the city, talks to Eurovision winner Dana, actress and film producer Roma Downey, and actresses Amanda Burton and Jamie Lee O’Donnell, to find out what still ties them to their homeplace and makes them proud ‘Derry girls’.

Anna Curran says: “As a proud Derry girl I am thrilled to be fronting this series. I grew up watching Roma, Amanda and Dana on the TV and like audiences the world over I am a huge fan of Jamie Lee and the Derry Girls series.

“It has been a privilege to listen to their stories of success, struggle and everything that makes a Derry girl.”

The four-part series will be available to listen to on BBC Sounds from Monday 10 February.

It will also be broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster from 3-4pm from Monday 10 February- Thursday 13 February and on BBC Radio Foyle across four Fridays from 14 February – 7 Friday March, 12-1pm.

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