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Two famous chickens from County Armagh: Boogaloo and Graham is a Bafta Award Winning short film and is now in the bidding for the Oscars this Sunday. Trained and reared by Dr Doolittle himself, Foothill farm man, Kenny Gracey. Anne Marie went along to meet him and his star animals. You can see the film on Sunday 22nd February at 10.30pm on 麻豆社1 Northern Ireland.听听

For centuries brick was made in the fields along the River Arney and transported on boats to Enniskillen. Arney Bridge is the oldest in the county and the was fought close by on the banks of the river. For the past year Killesher Community Development Association and Cleenish Community Association in Fermanagh have had a project on the go to celebrate and bring back to life some of this social, historical and cultural heritage. And to find out more, Anne Marie talks live to Barney Devine who has been at the helm since day one.

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County Down Man, Hugh McShane has written a book about WW1 and the local connections with it. He grew up in Newry and is an expert on the men from his home city that fought in the Great War. Marie McStay went to meet him in the older parts of Newry, St Marys Graveyard, in the Old Chapel, high above the town and talked about war.听听

They used to say if you had mumps and crawled under the legs of a donkey three times, it would cure you and if you touched a sty on your eye nine times with a gooseberry thorn it would go away. Fireside Meadow Tales tells traditional storytelling about folk tales around a cosy fire as part of the .听 Anne Marie went along to Enniskillen and Killykeegan Nature Reserve to meet Conor McKinney.

On the other side of the world, County Down men were fighting in Asia. The Singapore Mutiny of 1915 was witnessed first-hand by husband and wife, Edwin and Mary Brown. And their amazing account of what happened has just been published for the first time. Their granddaughter, Celia Ferguson wrote the introduction to the new book and she joins Anne Marie live in studio.听听

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