Guernsey Press Arts Podcast

Radio Silence - the new Occupation musical

Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:02:33 GMT

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

Fri, 16 May 2025 12:41:34 GMT

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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Art for Guernsey’s ‘Finding Turner’ exhibition

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:36:38 GMT

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

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:39:04 GMT

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

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:26:42 GMT

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

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:00:49 GMT

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

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 23:46:39 GMT

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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Comedian Al Murray, music in Montserrat, photography and Gadoc's third Dibley

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 15:41:21 GMT

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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Three new books: poetry, history and a novel

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:32:05 GMT

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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Chris Foss on his ‘Sci-Fi Journey’

Tue, 27 Aug 2024 07:09:57 GMT

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’

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 14:23:19 GMT

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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Exhibition special: Chris Foss, Sarnia Arts & Crafts, Gill Harrison and Sula Gallery

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 19:19:56 GMT

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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‘It isn’t a game for idiots’ — uncovering the Royal Game of Ur

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 11:10:42 GMT

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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List Fest, Arts Society lectures, One Act Play Fest, Element Films, and more

Mon, 20 May 2024 11:02:22 GMT

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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‘The Hunt for Lady Olive & the German Submarine’

Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:10:01 GMT

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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Olympia McEwan’s ‘7 Women’, ‘Fool for Love’, and more

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 06:48:07 GMT

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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Last Flamingo of the Red Summer Sunset and the Mallard’s increasingly eclectic programme

Sat, 10 Feb 2024 06:00:00 GMT

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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2023 highlights and Art for Guernsey founder David Ummels

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:01:53 GMT

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

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 09:01:10 GMT

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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David Le Page on breaking down musical barriers

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:49:18 GMT

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

Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:24:51 GMT

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 — and its role in bringing the local filmmaking community together, check in on Guernsey Arts' Russ Fossey as cultural tourism comes to the fore, and find out how the process behind visiting artist Tony Parsons' work.

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Renoir in Guernsey, 1883

Mon, 25 Sep 2023 11:43:48 GMT

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

Sun, 10 Sep 2023 12:22:45 GMT

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 leading tribute bands prepare to rock L’Eree Aerodrome on Saturday, and Russ Fossey and Louise Le Pelley from Guernsey Arts discuss the ways in which it wants to help fund its work in future.

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Bonus: Vale Earth Fair, GADOC, MTG, and Guernsey Arts

Sat, 26 Aug 2023 10:01:06 GMT

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 Years', plus Guernsey Arts' Russ Fossey explains another strand of its long-term strategy.

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David Le Page, 'At Death We Part', and Oliver Bailey-Davies

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:32:21 GMT

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

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:52:33 GMT

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

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:57:56 GMT

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 latest exhibition at Candie featuring the work of local artist Brenda Munson, checks in on the recent One Act Play Festival, and hears all about a new booking agency set up by Guernsey musicians Kiya Ashton and Mike Meinke.

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Lit Fest lift off, St James and the future of facilities, and the Priaulx Library podcast

Fri, 05 May 2023 16:34:32 GMT

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 discuss the future of local venues with Russ Fossey from Guernsey Arts and St James executive director Jon Bisson.

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AFG's 'A Renaissance of Victor Hugo', sculptor Sophie Le Lievre, and a plan for public art

Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:51:40 GMT

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 artist Chris Simcox about the future of public art in Guernsey. Plus we check in on GADOC's production of '9 to 5' and the OSA Pop Up Shop, where the 'Quirky Kiwi' Claire Fisher has been showing her Maori-inspired work.

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David Ummels and Jock Pettitt on Art for Guernsey's new Mill Street home

Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:41:08 GMT

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 — and the wider community.

Stay tuned to this feed for conversations from across Guernsey's creative community, including our monthly magazine show at the start of each month and one-off interviews covering the full gamut of the island's artistic output.

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A Plan for the Arts: Festivals

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:54:36 GMT

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 growth in festivals locally, their impact on island life, and how they can be further supported and encouraged in future.

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Victor Hugo Centre plans take shape, Eisteddfod in full swing, and focus on festivals

Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:56:27 GMT

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 event — and the talent on show, and we sit down with Jade Kershaw from the Vale Earth Fair Collective, Claire Allen from the Guernsey Literary Festival, and Guernsey Arts' Russ Fossey to talk about the local festival scene.

The Guernsey Press Arts Podcast is a monthly show, hosted by Simon De La Rue and produced by Tony Curr.

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Debut playwright Jack Ingrouille, Alderney Lit Fest, and more!

Sat, 04 Feb 2023 08:25:36 GMT

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 involved in the Guernsey Street Festival and Eisteddfod.

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Introducing the Guernsey Press Arts Podcast

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 18:03:58 GMT

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 Guernsey's creative economy has grown over the last decade, and look forward to a new 10-year plan to guide the Bailiwick's arts scene.

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