Give My Head Peace

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And of course, Give My Head Peace Live is on tour.

Tickets below.

In the meantime, thank you very much.

Thank you.

She went to Queens and then worked at the BBC.

She appeared in the Hole in the Wall gang and Give My Head Peace before joining UTV as the first woman in Ireland to head up her own show, McKeever.

She's since presented on BBC Radio Ulster and has written and performed her own plays, including the award-winning Truth, Love or Promise, In the Window and the recent production Everybody Knows.

Welcome, Nuala.

A relative newcomer to stand-up, she was shortlisted for the final of the BBC New Comedy Award in 2021 and has since guested on Radio 4's The News Quiz and is a regular panellist on The Blame Game.

She led an episode of Derry Girls as Katya, she played one of the leads in the BBC improvised comedy Soft Border Patrol and she's the recurring character Grania in BBC's Give My Head Peace.

Her debut play Bridesmaids of Northern Ireland was a sellout hit and is coming to the UK this summer as Bridesmaids of Britain and there's a link to where you can buy tickets for that in the show notes.

And she also has a podcast, Remember When, where each week she welcomes a celebrity guest to discuss a moment from pop culture history.

As always, ladies and gentlemen, uh, we like to plug things on this show.

So first of all, the most important plug of all is for Give My Head Peace Live, which is on tour, and tickets are on sale right now.

Uh, we are on tour all over March of 2027 and bits of April.

We are in the Grand Opera House the last week of March.

So get your tickets now.

Link below.

Isn't that right, Dan? Link below for, uh, Give My Head Peace Live.

Uh, our guest is definitely gonna buy tickets this year, 'cause I know he's a big fan of Give My Head Peace.

That's the headline in the newsletter today, revealing that two of Northern Ireland's biggest brands in comedy have been axed by the BBC as part of the massive cuts the corporation is now imposing across the UK and indeed globally across the entire organization, as the BBC tries to save five hundred million pounds, uh, over two years because of significant financial pressures.

The creative team behind Give My Head Peace first met many years ago while at university in Belfast, and some of those earliest forays into broadcast comedy were actually on this program, on Talkback, where they earned the moniker that stuck, the Hole in the Wall Gang.

They are Damon Quinn, Tim McGarry, and Michael McDowell.

And let's welcome them into the Talkback studio with their own herald, the theme from Give My Head Peace.

With your bombs and your bullets and your goings on.

I'm right, you're wrong.

I mean, to be honest with you, um, we d- we, we, we knew this, this was happening about a month or so ago.

Uh, uh, we're, we're disappointed obviously.