Charlie Landsborough, Jan Brierton & an Easter Sunday Songbook

Liverpudlian singer and storyteller Charlie Landsborough was an overnight sensation fifty years in the making, and credits his success in the mid 1990s to BBC Radio Ulster's Gerry Anderson Show. A cd of Charlie's landed on Gerry's desk in Radio Foyle, and he played him on his morning radio show and booked him for his tv show "Anderson on the Box". It was Charlie's first ever tv appearance and the rest is music history.
In a wide ranging, down to earth chat, Charlie talks to Anna about the noise of his Merseyside childhood home, with ducks, geese and a pet monkey, to the grief of his mother's death when he was a boy to his faith, family and being adopted by Ireland.

And in the second hour of the show Anna catches up with Dublin poet Jan Brierton ahead of her Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival gig in May and we have an exclusive as she has written a brand new poem especially for Easter declaring it's ok to eat chocolate for breakfast!!!

And the show wouldn't be complete without the Sunday Songbook packed full of classic tracks.