ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
This Is Islay is a community podcast celebrating the people, places, events and connections which shape the Hebridean island communities of Islay and Jura. Our goal is to use podcasting to foster community involvement, education and training, providing resources and facilities to research, produce and promote content for a worldwide audience. We collaborate with Islay High School, and with MYCOS and their programmes in support of local young people. We actively seek volunteers to join our podcasting team. Contact us at e-mail: thisisislay@gmail.com. Follow on Twitter & Facebook @ThisIsIslay .
Update frequency:
every 17 days
Average audio length:
27 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
61 episodes
since Aug. 10, 2020
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In this episode, This Is Islay's Richard Mansbridge is in conversation with David Protherough, a Senior Coastguard Operation Officer with responsibility for Islay, Jura and Colonsay. We learn what happens when the call comes, and the role of the Coastguard working in conjunction with RNLI and other…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Continuing our collaboration with Islay primary schools, this episode features the students across Port Ellen Primary discussing their favourite fact-finding books, as well as characters from their most-loved storybooks. Students also offer their reading recommendations to their friends and classma…
Marking the new school year, and continuing our collaboration with Islay primary schools, this episode features the students across Port Ellen Primary discussing their favourite fact-finding books, as well as characters from their most-loved storybooks. Students also offer their reading recommendat…
Discover what makes the Islay Book Festival unique. In this episode, This Is Islay's Jolyon Thurgood chats with Charlène Busali, Creative Director of the 2026 Islay Book Festival, We learn about the book creators and special guests who make up the festival and how its events engage the Islay commu…
In this episode, a group of students from Islay High School have created their own podcast. They did so as part of their journalism and media studies, as a result of a two day Media Skills programme sponsored at the High School by the National Union of Journalists and led by Fiona Macdonald, a well…
This episode launches a new four-part series on Caring for Older People. Part 1 – Policies, People & Partnerships - lays out the care framework by providing an overview of how national and local policies and services impact our lives as we get older, through Scottish Government policies for old…
In this episode, This Is Islay's Jean MacLellan is in conversation with Mairi McCuaig, manager of Argyll College on Islay, part of the University of the Highlands and Islands and offering further and higher education across Argyll. The conversation also include Andrew Davis, a Social Sciences lectu…
In this episode, we meet with Malcolm Ogilvie, Deputy Chair of the Museum of Islay Life, and the Museum Manager, Christine McPhie. We learn about the origins of the Museum in Port Charlotte, and take a tour of its highlights. Find out more at https://www.islaymuseum.org
Acknowledgments:
Many thanks…
Continuing our collaboration with primary schools on Islay, this episode features the students of Primary 1 and 2 and their older students of Primary 6 and 7, together with staff at Port Ellen Primary School, discussing the Vikings. What did we know before and what did we learn? One thing we know f…
Continuing our collaboration with primary schools on Islay, this episode features students and staff at Port Ellen Primary School discussing "Marvellous Materials".
Acknowledgements:
Many thanks to the staff and students of Port Ellen Primary School who contributed to this episode through…
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