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This week on The Culture Cafe: Stacy Gregg, Andrea Montgomery and Edel Murphy. 

Ballywalter screenwriter Stacy Gregg on making comedian Patrick Kielty not funny. 

Joining Marie-Louise Kerr this week, playwright & screenwriter of “Ballywalter” Stacy Gregg on making the naturally funny stand up and actor Patrick Kielty struggle to make people laugh. She also does a Hitchcock and appears on screen herself! Playwright Andrea Montgomery discusses her theatre to film piece, 'Me You Us Them'. Andrea's writing is based on the real stories of racism, identity and sense of belonging in Northern Ireland.

Edel Murphy has just landed her dream job as the new CEO of the Northern Irish arts organisation University of Atypical, a disabled-led charity that develops and promotes the work of d/Deaf, disabled and neurodiverse artists and enhances access for audiences. She also talks about her own life – from being diagnosed with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 3, an extremely rare condition affecting around four people in Northern Ireland, and told by doctors she would not live beyond the age of 12.

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