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Manx History, Heritage & Culture Podcasts

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Manx History, Heritage & Culture:

MANX RADIO OLD NEWS:

  • OLD NEWS 29 JUNE 2025 - Seaweed

    As PSM commissioners work to deal with the smell of rotting seaweed, H looks back at how it's been dealt with around the Island over the years. There's no shortage of it around the Island's coastlines - but is it a boon or a bane?

 MANX RADIO'S ISLAND LIFE SERIES:

  • PRIDE SPECIAL: No Man Is An Island

    She's back - Siobhán Fletcher marks Pride month 2025 with a special documentary episode of Island Life. Back in 2023, we heard from the likes of Alan Shea and Hazel Hannan in our series 'A Brief History of Pride'.Now, a short verbatim documentary exploring the history of the Isle of Man leading up to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1992 has been released online.Directed by John Craine, and funded by BFI Doc Society, The Guardian and Isle of Man Arts Council, "No Man Is An Island" was primarily filmed here on the Island last year - and we went along to the set!In this episode, we hear more from members of the cast, producer Diarmuid Hughes, and find out the details on where to watch the film as part of the Island's first ever Pride film festival, which gets underway next week in Port St Mary.You can buy tickets to 'Pride on Screen' here - Port St Mary Business Association event tickets from TicketSource.And you can stream 'No Man Is An Island' here - No Man Is an Island: a British society and its historic push for gay rights | Pride | The Guardian

THE ARCHIVE ROOM:

AT YOUR SERVICE:

  • AT YOUR SERVICE - This week, we're delivering a plane, and planting a vineyard!

    AFD Software - the Ramsey-based Postcode People - are famous for their high level of support for local and global charities, including the purchase of an aircraft for Mission Aviation Fellowship, the world's largest humanitarian air operator. David Dorricott - Managing Director of AFD Software, talks about the new plane and the difference it will make to some of the world's most disadvantaged people.Matt and Katrina Baptist are based in Peel, and are planting a Vineyard Church on the Island - the full story is here! And there's music too - and another packed notice board.

MANX RADIO AT 60:

  • Manx Radio at 60: The Last Look

    John Moss takes a final trip into the archives to relive some of the finest interviews and features we've brought you throughout our 60th anniversary year.

KELLY'S EYE: 

ISLE OF MAN HERITAGE RAILWAYS: 

  • MANX ELECTRIC RAILWAYS 130th ANNIVERSARY

    A continuation of Mike Buttell's journey through history on our Heritage Transport in a year of Anniversary Celebrations.  This week: Mike completes the journey to Ramsey, remembers a landslip that might have seen the end of the Railway and reveals a top secret service at the top of Snaefell, in this final part of our series about the Island's pioneering and much loved form of transport.

TERRY CRINGLE'S HISTORY MAN:

THE CHARLES GUARD SERIES

  • Giles Job relives childhood memories of Derby Castle

    Giles Job lived in the Derby Castle Hotel as a child in the late 1940s. At the time the building was divided into two apartments and he and his family lived in one of them.
    On a recent visit to the Isle of Man he took the opportunity to talk to Charles Guard about his memories of the living there, including anecdotes about the Derby Castle theatre, the dance hall and the underground maze of cellars and passages that he explored as a young boy.
     

 

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