Saturday Magazine - 01/05/2010

This week the Saturday Magazine programme comes live from the North West - Derry City on the Banks of the River Foyle. John Toal talks to best selling author Jodi Picoult about her new book ‘House Rules’ - a story about a teenage boy with Asperger’s syndrome, it looks as what it means to be different in our society and how autism affects a family Mirenda Rosenberg performs some smooth jazz as Derry celebrates its 9th City of Derry Jazz & Big Band Festival and Chef Paula McIntyre puts us in the mood with some cajun & creole cooking straight from the French Quarters of New Orleans. Its 40 years since local girl Dana won the Eurovision song contest with a massive international hit ‘All Kinds of Everything’. John asks her if she still tunes in and what she thinks of the more recent Eurovision Song contests.