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):

Housing on Islay – Part 3 – Wakey-wakey Islay !? – This Is Islay

We continue our exploration of local housing issues on Islay and Jura. This time Russell discusses the core issue of land ownership and particularly the role of community buyouts with Lesley Riddoch, the award-winning broadcaster, journalist, author, cyclist, land reform campaigner and lover of all things Nordic.For all our podcasts, visit thisisislay.co.uk FeaturingGuest: Lesley Riddoch lesleyriddoch.com Host: Russell PollockAcknowledgementsProduction team : Jolyon Thurgood, Gordon Bermingham and the crew.Music by ⁠Ievgen Poltavskyi⁠ from ⁠Pixabay⁠ (333111)

1. Housing on Islay – Part 3 – Wakey-wakey Islay !? 31:33
2. Housing on Islay – Part 2 – A Builder's Perspective 23:32
3. I'd Be Dressing A Banana 21:42
4. Autumn Music Events around Islay and Jura ft Islay Jazz Festival 20:41
5. Housing on Islay – Part 1 38:37

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