STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951) In Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's thriller, tennis star Guy Haines (Farley Granger) is enraged by his trampy wife's refusal to finalize their divorce so he can wed senator's daughter Anne (Ruth Roman). He strikes up a conversation with a stranger, Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker), and unwittingly sets in motion a deadly chain of events. Psychopathic Bruno kills Guy's wife, then urges Guy to reciprocate by killing Bruno's father. Meanwhile, Guy is m

Good Luck Coins/Marriage Money for Weddings and Births Here are two Dublin women, Maria Oman and Ellen Bird chatting to me a few weeks ago about the custom of gifting silver coins to a new baby on its birth and also to a bride on her wedding day. Ellen brought in a five shilling piece which was given to her as a baby when she was born in 1951 while Maria brought in a four shilling piece which was gifted to her mother on her wedding day in 1947. Really worth listening to and did any of ye do it a