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If you’re interested in Island history, if you can’t resist a good story, and if you like meeting great characters, then you’ll love everything in The Archive Room! Real stories, told by the people who were there - using Manx Radio archive recordings to explore every aspect of Island life in years gone by.
Unknown Host hosts The Archive Room, a history show with 58 episodes published.
In this episode of The Archive Room, we tell the story of Cunningham's Camp, and of the Falcon Cliff Hotel - plus there are memories of the Derby Castle, and we celebrate 100-year-old Laurence Kermode becoming the oldest
Memories and stories from managers and film-goers who remember the days when Manx cinemas were numerous - and always full to capacity - and we find out what happened when the Isle of Man was chosen as the location for an
Douglas Buxton, Manx music legend, recalls the chance conversation which shaped his whole career; Norah Moore recalls another leading figure in the world of Manx music - her Father, Noah Moore, and Eva Kane shares some m
Another chance to hear a few gems from the shelf marked 'Christmas' in the Archive Room - including an interview with Geraldine Jamieson - the Manx Radio presenter who never gave interviews!
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
ETHEL GALE - aged 98 - is full of stories of life down North at the turn of the last century and LAURENCE KERMODE - breaking records by being the oldest person ever to win a class in The Guild when he was aged 100, talks
Stanley Karran, born in 1910, lived his whole life in Cregneash - so his fascinating stories are packed with gems of knowledge about the area - and David Callister and Terry Cringle go to the pictures, and chat with some
David Callister talks with Cecil Mitchell, who was given an award after crossing the Irish Sea over 4,000 times on Steam Packet vessels, and Charles Kelly recalls the joys of the Douglas Picture Houses in the early 1900'
In THE ARCHIVE ROOM this week we visit an auction - all the worldly goods of Dr Alexander Cannon, and a haunted church - St Barnabas in Douglas, then go shopping in 1970's Ramsey - and we finish with another episode in o
Dr Alexander Cannon was a Doctor who also longed to be a magician. What happened in his private clinic and in his theatre is told by people who were there. Howard Simcocks talks about overcoming total blindness in the 19
Bill Dennard was a young surveyor who came to the Island at the end of the 2nd World War, to start building the 4 runways for Ronaldsway Airport, and Joan Speedie remembers her life as a nurse at Nobles before the arriva
90-year-old Kathleen Green remembers being footloose and fancy free in Dalby; Miss Jean Thornton-Duesbury reflects on life in Bishopscourt; Mrs Elspeth Quayle (MHK for Castletown from 1971 to 1981) and Miss Katherine Cow
We're ending a year in The Archive Room with another chance to hear a great collection of funny and fascinating stories of Island life in years gone by - told by the people who were there. Ellen (Cissy) O’Brien and Inker
In The Archive Room this week .... Louise Quirk talks with Captain Corteen in 1971 as the Lady of Mann made a farewell trip to the Calf of Man before leaving the Isle of Man for good. Historian Peter Kelly talks to David
In The Archive Room this week, we use a vintage episode of The History Makers, and an episode of Kelly's Eye, to recall the inspiring story of Nellie Brennan - the "Mother" of Manx nursing. Then we go North to Ballaugh -
The year is 1980 - the 150th anniversary of the IOM Steam Packet Company - General Manager Sydney Shimmin shares stories from past and present; Teacher Irene Shimmin gets a surprise new career when she goes to hire a hal
In The Archive Room this week - Dee Lewis reflects on 16 very varied years working at Manx Radio; we discover just how difficult it is to make a radio commercial, and a Governor tries his hand at ploughing at Cronk-y-Vod
In The Archive Room this week - Charles Guard reports on the 1982 flood - the worst the Island had ever experienced; former Lt Governor Sir Laurence New shares some Tynwald Day thoughts; inventor and adventurer Jack Cari
Kathleen Morrey recalls the time her home was used as a film set - John Kelly recalls his years as a butcher in Peel - residents of Glenside are full of tales of family life - Group Captain David Scouller talks about an
In this first programme of the new series, David Callister talks with Inkerman Faragher and with Ellen O'Brien (also known as Cissy) Born in 1924 and 1922 respectively, they both spent the majority of the childhood in th
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