Bailiwick Podcasts

Another Guernsey Literary Festival has come and gone in what’s been described as a record breaking year for the events.

Over 7,000 people piled into venues across the island to hear from a wide range of writers, poets, speakers and personalities.

Express sat down with Festival Director, Claire Allen, and its Marketing and Press Officer, Nick Le Messurier to look back and wrap up on another successful few weeks of culture in the Bailiwick. 

During a series of podcasts the President of ESC, Deputy Andrea Dudley-Owen spoke to Express about her committee’s mandate and the future of education in Guernsey.

This third podcast touches briefly on the ongoing public debate surrounding the funding of the Guernsey Sports Commission.

Deputy Dudley-Owen says ESC will work to support the Commission, but funding allocation does need to be looked at…

During a series of podcasts the President of ESC, Deputy Andrea Dudley-Owen spoke to Express about her committee’s mandate and the future of education in Guernsey.

This second podcast explores the route Guernsey’s education system has taken so far and what happens next.

Deputy Dudley-Owen touches on the difficulty of getting her committee’s message across, the battle against the false narrative and why it makes more sense for Education to be prioritised in the upcoming capital projects debate…

During a series of podcasts the President of ESC, Deputy Andrea Dudley-Owen speaks to Express about her committee’s mandate and the future of education in Guernsey.

Our first conversation touched on ChatGPT, and the future of technology in the classroom and during early years development. 

She says, while the introduction of increasingly powerful AI is concerning, its incorporation into the school setting aligns with the digital roadmap, which outlines how technology should and can be used to benefit the learning experience… 

This week, Express and the JEP have launched a series investigating Our Throwaway Society.

Jersey's Recycling Officer, Piers Tharme, explains why he thinks it is in everyone's best interests to use less and reuse and recycle more, even if the financial costs don't quite yet stack up.

But by changing our behaviour, he argues, they probably soon will....

Despite being less well-known than its St. Brelade counterpart,  La Cotte à la Chèvre is one of the most extraordinary archaeological sites in Jersey, throwing up over 16,000 artefacts since it was first excavated in 1881. 

A small cave near Grosnez where people may have lived and hunted up to 250,000 years ago, it is one of the earliest inhabited spots in the Channel Islands and one of the last places Neanderthals could have lived. 

In this podcast, Charlie Flynn speaks to Dr Josie Mills, an archaeologist who has been working on sites in Jersey since 2010 and who is working at the Sir Francis Cook Gallery to catalogue all the finds from this incredible site.

They discuss what was found at  La Cotte à la Chèvre, what it was and what our ancestors may have used it for, and what the site can tell us about Jersey’s pre-history...

One current and one former politician, who both spent a night sleeping rough in a car park last November, compare notes on politics, planning and people without homes.

Housing Minister Deputy David Warr, and former chief minister and Chair of local charity Sanctuary Trust, Frank Walker OBE, discuss Jersey's housing crisis, the cost of living, and what needs to be done to tackle homelessness in Jersey.

Sanctuary Trust is Connect's charity partner for 2023. You can read their feature in the May edition of the magazine here and donate to Sanctuary Trust here.

You can also sign up to Sanctuary's main fundraiser of the year – the Sleep Out in Pier Road car park on Friday 17 November - here.

Deputy Peter Ferbrache has been the President of P&R for more than two years now and first stepped into island politics back in 1994.

During the final episode of a series of podcasts  Express asked him what his experience has taught him and what he would change.

He speaks on executive government, a reduction in deputies and his future position in the States Assembly…

After nearly two years of discussing the potential purchase of a new vessel for Condor, P&R supported the ferry company in acquiring the MV Straitsman, a ferry from New Zealand that’ll be renamed the Islander.

The route to purchase was a complicated one, involving an initial plan for the Guernsey Investment Fund to buy it and then a second plan that required the convening of the Civil Contingencies Authority.

During the second of a series of podcasts with Express, the President of P&R, Deputy Peter Ferbrache discusses how the dream of buying a boat was realised…

The President of P&R sat down with Express to speak on a variety of topics, including; the capital project portfolio, Condor's new boat, the Guernsey Investment Fund and his future in the States. This is part one of three and focuses on P&R's proposal to deprioritise the Hospital Modernisation Project.