Manx History, Heritage & Culture Podcasts

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Manx History, Heritage & Culture:

MANX RADIO OLD NEWS:

• OLD NEWS - warm weather!

  H looks back at some of the thoughts recorded in the Island's newspapers over the years on the subject of warm weather. Get your flannels on and keep off the buses !

 MANX RADIO'S ISLAND LIFE SERIES:

• REWIND 20 APRIL 2025

  H looks back at some of Manx Radio's recent output which you may have missed - from memories of VE Day to Dodgeball via Wetherspoons!

THE ARCHIVE ROOM:

• THE ARCHIVE ROOM - Happy 90th birthday to No Limit - and the scary end to the serial!

  As the George Formby classic film No Limit prepares to celebrate it's 90th birthday, we hear from people involved in making - and showing - it back in 1935 - and it's the final episode of our archive serial - The Little Dark Cupboard - spoiler alert - it's scary!!

AT YOUR SERVICE:

• AT YOUR SERVICE - Tackling big questions about life - and turning the clock back 40 years!

  Rev Dr Dee Dee Haines ministered in Trinity Church at Rosemount, Douglas for over 10 years, and works now within the Hospice movement in Minneapolis, USA, where she is Bereavement Coordinator and Supervisor of Spiritual Care & Music Therapy.She enjoys returning to the Isle of Man each year for a holiday - and a chat about the big questions of life!And from the Manx Radio archive, we turn the clock back 40 years for a visit to Colby Methodist Church, and a conversation with Cecil McFee - a Methodist Local Preacher for 60 years!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: 

• KELLY'S EYE - CLARENCE TERRACE

  David and Peter look at well-known terrace from the 1840s and some new buildings there . .

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 History Man - 18th December 2022

  In this archive edition, Terry looks at the history of Noble's Hospital.

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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