I alluded a while back to something coming up that I couldn’t talk about but now I can reveal all! Well apart from the other things that are on the list of things that might be happening that I still can’t talk about that is! Starting on 5th February I will be co-host of a radio programme & podcast about the occupation of the Channel Islands.
I have been talking for a year or so about the idea of teaming up for this project with local tour guide, amateur historian and broadcaster Keith Pengelley. You can find out more about Keith and his tours here. He is a stalwart of GNETRadio as well as a tour guide and member of the team that looks after visitors to our heritage sites.
Each episode will cover a month of the occupation starting in June 1940. The idea being that we will talk about social issues, life under occupation and the military impact. We will be using diaries of those that were here, our combined research, our families experiences and also talking about other things that were going on in the wider European theatre of operations that impacted the islands.
We finally managed to align diaries and recorded a pilot show for GNETRadio which has now been scheduled for broadcast on 5th February of the pilot episode. We had so much fun with the pilot episode that we decided it was worth putting out. Rest assured the later episodes will be more polished, well we hope so anyway!
Click the link here if you want to listen live on 5th February at 19:00.
Our aim is to broadcast an episode every two weeks which you can either listen to live online or listen later by downloading it from Mixcloud or using the GNETRadio website.
I will be posting links here and on social media each time an episode is released for catchup on Mixcloud. Sign up here to be notified by email of these.
We have a lot of other ideas about where we can take this concept and will be working on these over the coming months and announcing them as we firm them up!
I hope that you have enjoyed reading the blog post.
I also co-host a podcast with Keith Pengelley in which we talk about the occupation of the Channel Islands month by month using first hand accounts, diaries and our research in the archives. You can find us on all the major podcast services. Just search “Islands at War” or visit our podcast page here.
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