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52 minutes | Sunday, 20 September 2020
Dollin Mercer is joined by Education Minister Dr Alex Allinson and Cat Woolley of the Manx Students' Union
52 minutes | Sunday, 13 September 2020
How do we resuscitate, revitalise and reimagine the tourism industry on the Isle of Man? A Tynwald committee is looking into it...
53 minutes | Sunday, 6 September 2020
A campaigner and two interested MHKs discuss the saga of prices for Manx Gas customers on the Isle of Man
54 minutes | Sunday, 30 August 2020
We meet the newly-elected representatives for the South of Douglas, in the same week they topped the polls
53 minutes | Sunday, 23 August 2020
After the major incident in October 2019, Chief Minister Howard Quayle promised lessons would be learnt. Almost a year on, have they been?
52 minutes | Sunday, 16 August 2020
In a post-lockdown world, is it time for a rethink about how we travel around the Isle of Man?
53 minutes | Sunday, 9 August 2020
From September, the Bunscoill Ghaelgagh will be a ‘fully maintained’ government school, for the first time in its 19-year history
52 minutes | Sunday, 2 August 2020
In the July sitting, Tynwald failed to agree on a move to change the speed limit policy on the Island's roads
53 minutes | Sunday, 26 July 2020
Two MHKs reflect on the July interim budget update - what did we learn?
53 minutes | Sunday, 19 July 2020
Dollin Mercer was joined, live in the studio, by Paul Moulton of Isle of Man TV, Jess Ward of Isle of Man Newspapers and Josh Stokes of ITV Granada Reports: Isle of Man
52 minutes | Sunday, 15 March 2020
We listen in to a public discussion with seven hopefuls for Tynwald's upper chamber - four of whom were successful
52 minutes | Sunday, 8 March 2020
Dollin Mercer reflects on the news that the regional airline had gone into administration - taking almost half of the Island's flights with it
52 minutes | Sunday, 1 March 2020
Dollin Mercer is joined by the One World Centre and former Garstang residents to discuss all things Fairtrade
51 minutes | Sunday, 23 February 2020
Following Tuesday's budget, Dollin speaks to Treasury Minister Alf Cannan MHK and guests
52 minutes | Sunday, 16 February 2020
FSA heads under the spotlight before a Tynwald scrutiny committee
52 minutes | Sunday, 9 February 2020
Perspective plots a timeline of developments so far - but what will come of the branch?
51 minutes | Sunday, 2 February 2020
Tynwald's Public Accounts Committee meets two senior figures from the UK
53 minutes | Sunday, 26 January 2020
The Children's Champion, Tim Baker MHK, has constructed his first annual report, which paints a damning picture for looked after children on the Isle of Man
53 minutes | Sunday, 19 January 2020
Tynwald's Public Accounts Committee gets the thoughts of the treasury minister and chief financial officer on the losses of the Media Development Fund, good governance, and current procedures
52 minutes | Sunday, 12 January 2020
Following the release of Professor James Curran's report on climate change - the culmination of six months of work from his team - Perspective gets a range of responses to what it has to say
52 minutes | Sunday, 5 January 2020
An MHK recently described the examination of Professor James Curran's report on climate change as "probably the most important debate we've had for decades." Perspective looks ahead to its release.
52 minutes | Sunday, 15 December 2019
Garff MHK Daphne Caine tried again to launch a feasibility study, about the prospect of resettling Syrian refugees here, following a petition from Ballakermeen students
53 minutes | Sunday, 8 December 2019
Dollin Mercer is joined by ex-professional snooker player Darryl Hill, to speak about his new project - 'the Cue Zone IOM'
50 minutes | Sunday, 1 December 2019
The autobiography of Dr Brian Stowell was launched this weekend. Dollin Mercer is joined in the studio by two of his children, and Dr Wendy Mercer, who helped compile and edit his memoirs
51 minutes | Sunday, 24 November 2019
This week, the Domestic Abuse Bill 2019 faces the consideration of clauses stage in the House of Keys. We look back at the legislative progress so far.
52 minutes | Sunday, 17 November 2019
A Tynwald Committee is looking at a range of topics relating to Her Majesty's Attorney General - including the relationship he has between the Government, Governor and Tynwald.
52 minutes | Sunday, 10 November 2019
Some tributes and reflections, after we lost one of the Isle of Man's best-known and most respected broadcasters, Roger Watterson
53 minutes | Monday, 4 November 2019
Perspective on Podcasting
51 minutes | Sunday, 27 October 2019
Dollin Mercer is joined in the studio by Devon Watson of the Fare Free Campaign
52 minutes | Sunday, 20 October 2019
We hear from the chair of government's climate emergency transformation team, and one of the top people at the UNESCO Man and Biosphere Programme
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