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“I just let out a nervous laugh and agree!”

Sean reveals his tactics when he can’t hear what someone is saying.

“I have a friend from Dungannon,” Sean says, “and whenever I see him, and say ‘Hello’, he says, ‘Och! Hello yourself!’ It tickled me. I asked him if I could borrow it. ‘Yes you can,’ he said , ‘for a while, but I want it back.’ But… I don’t like, ‘What’s the craic!’ I would never ever say that.”

“An expression I find irritating,” says Cathy in Rathfriland, is when someone can't hear what you're saying, they say, 'What is it!’

“Well it’s very difficult to ask people to repeat themselves. What I find is embarrassing, is when you ask them to repeat something, and then they repeat it, and you still can’t hear what they say. You just let out a nervous laugh and agree.”

With music from Neil Diamond, Paul Carrack, Tom Jones, and more.

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Music Played

  • Paul Carrack

    When You Walk in the Room

    • Collected.
    • Universal Music, a division of Universal International Music BV.
    • 7.

  • Emmylou Harris

    Never be Anyone Else but You

    • Brand New Dance.
    • Reprise.
    • 8.

  • George Baker Selection

    Baby Blue

    • Hot Baker (Remastered).
    • Universal Music, a division of Universal International Music BV.
    • 2.

  • Kris Kristofferson

    Come Sundown

    • 16 Biggest Hits.
    • Monument/Legacy.
    • 9.

  • Solomon Burke

    Cry To Me

    • The Best Of.
    • Discos Cada.
    • 2.

  • Tom Jones

    Help Yourself

    • Tom Jones - Greatest Hits.
    • Universal.

  • Post Malone & Dwight Yoakam

    I Don't Know How To Say Goodbye (Bang Bang Boom Boom)

    • I Don't Know How To Say Goodbye (Bang Bang Boom Boom).
    • Via Records.
    • 1.

  • Roy Orbison, Larry Gatlin & Barry Gibb

    Indian Summer

    • Collected.
    • Universal Music, a division of Universal International Music BV.
    • 15.

  • The Beatles

    Eight Days A Week

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 008.

  • Merle Haggard & The Strangers

    I Threw Away The Rose (Remastered)

    • Branded Man.
    • Capitol Nashville.
    • 7.

  • Bobby Darin

    Beyond The Sea (La Mer)

    • Hi-Five: Bobby Darin.
    • Rhino.

Broadcast

  • Last Thursday15:04
    BBC Radio Foyle