Manx History, Heritage & Culture Podcasts

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Manx History, Heritage & Culture:

MANX RADIO OLD NEWS:

• OLD NEWS 07 DECEMBER 2025 Ramsey Cottage Hospital

  Ramsey Cottage Hospital: No closing or change of use contemplated. Recent news? Yes - but this headline was first used in 1961!

 MANX RADIO'S ISLAND LIFE SERIES:

• Remembrance Day Special 2025

  On the day people across the nation pause to remember those who've died in conflict and served in our armed forces, we hear more about the Manx forces who had a different experience of war. In this special Island Life Siobhán Fletcher speaks to Dr Stacey Astill, whose grandfather was captured in Crete.

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:

• The £1.8 million Christmas giveaway - a free story podcast - and an invitation you won't want to miss!

  Why would someone give away £1.8 million that they could keep for themselves?? And what's so different about this year's Christmas Live in Douglas? All the answers are here - plus music, another packed notice board and details of part 2 of Bishop Tricia's new 4-part series of Advent reflections - see the separate At Your Service podcast - THROUGH ADVENT with Bishop Tricia - and find more resources here https://www.sodorandman.im/prayer/advent-study-2025/

PAUSE FOR A POEM:

• 1. PAUSE FOR A POEM - Joan Bennett

  Join H as he turns back the years and flips through the pages of "Pause for a Poem" - a Manx Radio feature back in 1970s. Did you feature?!

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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