Listen to the This Is Islay podcast

Some new media from Islay to write about. Back in August the This is Islay podcast was launched. Its goal is to bring you voices from Islay, news and events with interviews from the community. It is intended for both locals and listeners further afield to give an insight into what is happening on Islay and how the community experienced events. The intention is to complement other news sources (e.g. The Ileach), not to compete with them.

As of writing this two episodes have been published, Welcome to This Is Islay Fàilte a chàirdean and Islay Resilience and A Trip To India. The below embedded player should list and allow you to play the most recent episodes (as of writing this the two mentioned ones):

"Lady Charlotte Bury" by Margaret Storrie – This Is Islay

In this episode, Dr Margaret Storrie talks about her latest book, focussing on the unconventional life of Lady Charlotte Bury Campbell, who was known as a notorious diarist (think Lady Whistledown) in the time of George IV, a popular novelist and mother of 11. Lady Charlotte's oldest son was Walter Frederick Campbell, who became Laird of Islay and named Port Charlotte after his mother. Margaret is a long-time resident of Port Ellen and is the author of "Islay: Biography of an Island".FeaturingGuest: Margaret StorrieHost: Jolyon ThurgoodAcknowledgementsMany thanks to Margaret.and is availableMusic :  Kaazoom Pixabay 447800Production Team: Jolyon Thurgood and Gordon Bermingham 

1. "Lady Charlotte Bury" by Margaret Storrie 32:58
2. Pickups For Peace – Beth Newman 38:23
3. Port Ellen Primary School: Neurodiversity 19:32
4. Catriona Bell – Life on Islay 2 30:02
5. Housing on Islay – Part 3 – Wakey-wakey Islay !? 31:33

I hope you’ll enjoy the podcasts as much as I did and will subscribe to them (I’m using Google Podcasts, which works really well for me, but various other services including Spotify are available). With the latest developments around Covid-19 I found the information about the Islay Resilience Group very interesting and how it will help with possible future developments. But of course there are plenty of other interesting topics as well.

Author: Armin Grewe

I blog about Islay. View all posts by Armin Grewe