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As Santa gets ready for his busiest night of the year, Anne Marie visits the boys and girls of Kilrea Primary School to find out what they have asked for Christmas and how Santa can find their houses. 

We’ll have some festive cheer and a sing song on the programme courtesy of Ballymena’s Raise the Roof Kids' Choir. Alyson Reid from Glarryford is the Director and she’ll join the young voices in the studio for a chat.

In County Fermanagh just outside Belcoo stands Mullylusty Cottage, a 200 year old dwelling with no running water, electricity or gas. Homeowner Margaret Gallagher has spent many a Christmas there and takes comfort in the simpler way of life.   

In keeping with the festive theme Peter Makem recites his poem the First Mourne Christmas.

Saturday is the Winter Solstice and over in South Armagh at the summit of Slieve Gullion lies the Ireland’s highest passage tomb which at the setting of the winter’s sun will be filled with Light.  Geologist Dr Siobhán Power and Archaeologist Dr Vanessa Ryan from the Mourne Cooley Gullion Geotourism Project tell us about this fascinating event and the people behind it.

Author Michael Wallace from Annaclone Historical Society talks about his love for funny, colloquial and unheard phrases which are the inspiration for his new book ‘Every Saying Under the Sun’.

To finish Deirdre Donnelly talks to us from the City of Culture where she met Dean William Martin of St Columbs’ Cathedral to hear about the life of the prolific hymn writer Cecil Frances Alexander. She moved from Dublin to Strabane and married the Bishop of Londonderry and Archbishop of Armagh.