Episodes
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Radio Silence - the new Occupation musical
Simon De La Rue and Shaun Shackleton hear from Laura Simpson and Lydia Jane Pugh about their forthcoming new musical Radio Silence, telling the story of a fictional family's experience of the German occupation of Guernsey.
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On the trail of Victor Hugo and looking back at the Liberation Concert
Shaun Shackleton joins Simon De La Rue to discuss what's going on in Guernsey's arts scene. We hear from Laura Harrison of the Victor Hugo Centre about its exciting new trail and from Rachel Wright after her instigation of the Liberation Concert on 10 May, which featured the Biberach Youth...
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Art for Guernsey’s ‘Finding Turner’ exhibition
Simon De La Rue and Shaun Shackleton round up the latest from the local arts scene, including a look at Art for Guernsey’s new exhibition - ‘Finding Turner’, which continues its journey celebrating the work created here by the celebrated English artist.
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Inside the Islands at War podcast and Guernsey Arts’ 2025 plans
On this month’s show, Simon De La Rue and Shaun Shackleton hear all about the Islands at War podcast from the two men behind it, Keith Pengelley and Nick Le Huray, and speak to Russ Fossey and Louise Le Pelley from Guernsey Arts about its plans for 2025 and beyond.
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‘A celebration of photography and music’: Photo-Symphony preview
Simon De La Rue and Shaun Shackleton preview this weekend’s second Photo-Symphony at St James and look ahead to some of the other arts events happening over the next few weeks.
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Panto special with GADOC and MTG
Simon De La Rue and Shaun Shackleton go behind the scenes on the GADOC and MTG productions as Guernsey’s panto season gets into full swing.
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The Fabric of Guernsey exhibition and Lydia Jane Pugh
Simon De La Rue and Shaun Shackleton speak to artist Sally Ede-Golightly, Le Tricoteur owner Rachael Laine and Art for Guernsey chairman and founder David Ummels about a new exhibition focussing on the storied and much-treasured jumper of jumpers - the guernsey. We also catch up with composer…
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Comedian Al Murray, music in Montserrat, photography and Gadoc's third Dibley
Comedian and author Al Murray describes the origins of his Pub Landlord character, with which he recently sold out two nights at St James, Guernsey Music Service head Tim Wright talks us through the past, present and future of our growing ties with Montserrat, we hear from Estelle Moseley and...
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Three new books: poetry, history and a novel
Shaun Shackleton and Simon De La Rue speak to Trudie Shannon about her new collection of poetry, to Dawn O'Porter about her third Guernsey-set novel and to John Nettles and Steve Foote about a warts-and-all revision of a German officer's occupation diary, all of which are being published within a...
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Chris Foss on his ‘Sci-Fi Journey’
As a retrospective exhibition continues at Art for Guernsey, Simon De La Rue speaks to legendary local sci-fi illustrator and artist Chris Foss about his decades-long career, which has included work on several major films.
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Cameron Ashplant on his new one-man play ‘The Glaswegian’
This month with Simon De La Rue and Shaun Shackleton, actor and director Cameron Ashplant joins to talk about his new play ‘The Glaswegian’, which premieres at the Princess Royal Centre for the Performing Arts in a couple of weeks. Plus there’s chat on Rosanne Guille’s latest exhibition, the…
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Exhibition special: Chris Foss, Sarnia Arts & Crafts, Gill Harrison and Sula Gallery
Simon De La Rue and Shaun Shackleton explore some of the exhibitions taking place this summer, including hearing from pioneering sci-fi artist Chris Foss about his retrospective at Art for Guernsey, Liz Potter from the Sarnia Arts & Crafts Club ahead of its centenary show later in July, Gill...
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‘It isn’t a game for idiots’ — uncovering the Royal Game of Ur
An ancient board game was the first subject of this year’s Arts Society Guernsey lecture series. Simon De La Rue speaks to Dr Irving Finkel from the British Museum about his successful, decades-long quest to figure it out... The next lecture in the 2024 Arts Society Guernsey series is entitled…
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List Fest, Arts Society lectures, One Act Play Fest, Element Films, and more
Simon De La Rue and Shaun Shackleton round up the latest from the local arts scene, including a look back at this year’s Guernsey Literary Festival, featuring interviews with comedian Helen Lederer, author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Louis de Bernières, and festival chairman Sir Terry Waite.…
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‘The Hunt for Lady Olive & the German Submarine’
A once-in-a-lifetime discovery, documented on film... Tony Curr is joined by filmmaker Karl Taylor, skipper and veteran wreck-hunter Richard Keen and camera operator Peter Frankland to talk about the making of a new documentary which tells the story of a unique WW1 naval battle and the search for...
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Olympia McEwan’s ‘7 Women’, ‘Fool for Love’, and more
This month with Simon De La Rue and Shaun Shackleton, we hear from artist Olympia McEwan as her new public art project ‘7 Women’ goes on display at the Royal Court, Simon talks through his own theatrical project as he makes his directorial debut with ‘Fool for Love’ at the Fermain Tavern, plus…
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Last Flamingo of the Red Summer Sunset and the Mallard’s increasingly eclectic programme
This month with Simon De La Rue and Shaun Shackleton, we hear from the cast and crew of Guernsey-made film Last Flamingo of the Red Summer Sunset, which has just premiered at the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square, and we find out why the programme at the Mallard Cinema is looking...
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2023 highlights and Art for Guernsey founder David Ummels
Simon De La Rue and Shaun Shackleton pick out their highlights of the last 12 months across music, theatre, film, and more, plus Tony Curr catches up with Art for Guernsey founder David Ummels to reflect on the impact of its high-profile Renoir exhibition and look ahead to what’s in store in 2024.
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SPP Sketch Club, Night Voices, and the final part of Guernsey Arts' plan
On our final episode of 2023, Simon De La Rue speaks to Charlie Hodder from the St Peter Port Sketch Club, heads to JB Parker's to meet the young Guerns behind the Night Voices poetry project, and catches up with Russ Fossey about the final two parts of Guernsey Arts' 10-year plan — and his own...
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David Le Page on breaking down musical barriers
Simon De La Rue speaks to Guernsey's foremost classical musician David Le Page, who began learning to play the violin at age seven and his since forged a diverse career as a performer, composer, producer, and arranger, about his achievements, ambitions, and inspirations.
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GADOC's 'The Diary of Anne Frank', Guernsey Film Fest, painter Tony Parsons, and Guernsey Arts on cultural tourism
This month with Simon De La Rue, we hear from some of the cast and crew behind GADOC's 'The Diary of Anne Frank', which is being staged at the newly-refurbished Beau Sejour theatre this week, speak to Guernsey Film Festival organisers Lars Janssen and Charlotte Dawn Potter about this year's event…
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Renoir in Guernsey, 1883
Ahead of the opening of its landmark ‘Renoir in Guernsey, 1883’ exhibition later this week, Art for Guernsey founder David Ummels joins Simon De La Rue at the Guernsey Museum at Candie to talk about how it came together, what has been discovered in the process, and what it means for the island.
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‘Bet Your Bottom Dollar’, Vraicfest, and Guernsey Arts
On this month’s show with Simon De La Rue, Guernsey Press features reporter Shaun Shackleton speaks to first-time writer and director Brandon Ashplant about his new short film ‘Bet Your Bottom Dollar’ — which premieres locally this Friday, Tony Curr gets the lowdown on Vraicfest as the island’s...
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Bonus: Vale Earth Fair, GADOC, MTG, and Guernsey Arts
Simon De La Rue brings you a bonus edition of the Guernsey Press Arts Podcast, featuring a look ahead to this weekend's Vale Earth Fair, a chat with some of the cast and crew behind GADOC's recent 'fringe' production and Music Theatre Guernsey's unusual staging of the musical 'The Last Five…
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David Le Page, 'At Death We Part', and Oliver Bailey-Davies
This month, Simon De La Rue speaks to classical musician David Le Page, three of the crew behind new local film 'At Death We Part' — Daniel Hollingworth, Dave Hyett, and Kiya Ashton, and the director of the Princess Royal Centre for Performing Arts — Oliver Bailey-Davies.
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A look back at Arts Sunday
Simon De La Rue speaks to some of the stallholders at last month's Arts Seafront Sunday, and hears from Guernsey Arts' Russ Fossey about another strand of its long-term plan.
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Guernsey Filmworks' 'Underground', Brenda Munson interview, One Act Play Festival, and Guernsey Entertainment
This month Guernsey Filmworks' directors Lars Janssen and Charlotte Dawn Potter join Shaun Shackleton to talk about their debut feature-length production 'Undergound', a paranormal thriller set in the German Underground Hospital. Plus Simon De La Rue speaks to Lisa Burton and Jo Dowding about the...
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Lit Fest lift off, St James and the future of facilities, and the Priaulx Library podcast
This month with Simon De La Rue, Nick Le Messurier lifts the lid on the Guernsey Literary Festival, which has just got under way, we find out why the Priaulx Library has turned to podcasting with chief executive Steve Foote and Jim Delbridge, host of its Guernsey Life & Times podcast, and we...
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AFG's 'A Renaissance of Victor Hugo', sculptor Sophie Le Lievre, and a plan for public art
On this month's show with Simon De La Rue, we hear from Daniel Hosego, one of the visiting artists featuring in Art for Guernsey's 'A Renaissance of Victor Hugo' exhibition at its new Mansell Street home, sculptor Sophie Le Lievre on her recent show 'Portal', and Guernsey Arts' Russ Fossey and...
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David Ummels and Jock Pettitt on Art for Guernsey's new Mill Street home
Tony Curr speaks to Art for Guernsey founder David Ummels and director Jock Pettitt about the opening of its newly-renovated home in the island's Old Quarter; its journey so far, its plans for this year and beyond, and how they hope it can help them make an outsized impact on that part of town —...
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A Plan for the Arts: Festivals
In the first in a special series exploring the key elements of Guernsey Arts' new, long-term strategy, Simon De La Rue is joined by its head of arts development, Russ Fossey, Jade Kershaw from the Vale Earth Fair Collective, and Claire Allen from the Guernsey Literary Festival to talk about the...
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Victor Hugo Centre plans take shape, Eisteddfod in full swing, and focus on festivals
On this month's show, with Simon De La Rue, we hear from Larry Malcic, the chairman of the Victor Hugo Centre Group, about its plans for a new landmark attraction and performance space in St Peter Port, visiting Eisteddfod music adjudicator Ben Costello tells us about his first experience of the...
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Debut playwright Jack Ingrouille, Alderney Lit Fest, and more!
On this month's show with Simon De La Rue, we hear from Jack Ingrouille about his debut play “All of You” which premieres at the Fermain Tavern later this month, Isabel Picornell tells us about this year's Alderney Literary Festival and what makes it special, plus we find out how you can get...
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Introducing the Guernsey Press Arts Podcast
On the first edition of the new, monthly Guernsey Press Arts Podcast, Simon De La Rue is joined by Russ Fossey and Louise Le Pelley from Guernsey Arts and Tyler Edmonds, the founder and director of the School of Popular Music, to explore the current state of the arts locally, reflect on how...
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