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Guernsey Press Arts Podcast

Guernsey Press

34 episodes

4 months ago

A monthly show exploring the full gamut of Guernsey's arts scene.

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A monthly show exploring the full gamut of Guernsey's arts scene.

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Performing Arts

Episodes (20/34)

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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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4 months ago

50 minutes 53 seconds

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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 Orchestra.

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5 months ago

39 minutes 43 seconds

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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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7 months ago

37 minutes 31 seconds

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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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8 months ago

56 minutes 53 seconds

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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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9 months ago

25 minutes 45 seconds

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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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11 months ago

39 minutes 20 seconds

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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 Lydia Jane Pugh who is heading to New York for a Covid-delayed album premiere while planning a new musical about the Occupation.

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11 months ago

54 minutes 35 seconds

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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 Tasmin Ferguson as their photographs are included in the Guernsey Photography Festival and Margaret Moffatt tells us about her 50th outing as a director at GADOC, with The Vicar of Dibley - The Holy Trinity. Presented by Simon De La Rue and Shaun Shackleton.

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1 year ago

47 minutes 11 seconds

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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 few days of each other.

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1 year ago

1 hour 22 minutes 21 seconds

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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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1 year ago

33 minutes 2 seconds

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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 recent Guernsey Street Festival, and a look at what’s coming up locally.

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1 year ago

25 minutes 25 seconds

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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 Harrison on her ongoing Art at the Park exhibition and Hayley Bachelet and her dad Graham from Sula Gallery as its sale of a private collection featuring celebrated local artists draws to a close.

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1 year ago

51 minutes 42 seconds

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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 The Marquesses Of Bute: Patrons Of Opulence and will be presented by Matthew Williams, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, at 7pm on Wednesday 26 June.

This year’s lecture topics also include Pre-Raphaelite houses, the 1951 Festival of Britain, Beijing’s Forbidden City and the medieval arts patron Jean, Duc de Berry.

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1 year ago

25 minutes 19 seconds

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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.

Plus there’s chat on the One Act Play Festival, Element Films’ new short ‘Luck’, and a snippet from a fascinating interview with Irving Finkel, who recently spoke in an Arts Society Guernsey lecture on the most successful board game of antiquity.

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1 year ago

48 minutes 52 seconds

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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 the two vessels lost near to the Channel Islands.

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1 year ago

43 minutes 16 seconds

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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 they look back at the best of the last few weeks, including Art for Guernsey’s latest show, Cheshire Dramatic Arts’ production of ‘Six’, and Nessi Gomes’ new single.

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1 year ago

36 minutes 33 seconds

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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 increasingly eclectic.

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1 year ago

46 minutes 38 seconds

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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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1 year ago

52 minutes 26 seconds

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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 musical motivations.

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1 year ago

31 minutes 40 seconds

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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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1 year ago

36 minutes 21 seconds