Spotlight - Manx Radio

Poetry for Palestine medical support, the festival of choirs 2025 plus who won the teeth and what's next at the Loom!

We hear from some of the cast of the stage show "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", sample some soul at the Loom gallery in Laxey and check out the pedal-driven sounds of musician Patrick Knight

In this week's edition, Howard hears about a special anniversary for an arts group in the north of the Island, it's your last chance to apply for funding for a project around the Year of the Manx Language in 2026, and there's more about a book looking at the history of Manx delicacies.

H hears about short film project highlighting the realities of cancer care, more on the Ramsey Music Society Summer series and the Promenade performance and get your tickets for a unique promenade performance of Midsummer Night's Dream

H hears about the Ramsey Music Society's summer programme of concerts, looks forward to Yn Chrunniaght, hears about the One World Centre's SDG poster competition and a reminder to get your bardic entries in!

H speaks to award-winning playwright Jenny Derbyshire, hears about the year of the Manx language, what's happening on the One World Centre stage this Tynwald Day and how a local artist is using her creative skills to highlight a chronic illness

LIttle Shop of Horrors comes to the Gaiety, a long-form gothic folk poem is turned into a short film and beer-soaked verse from the Bard!

H talks to recently retired Arts Development Manager at the Arts Council Jane Corkill, hears from current Bard Jordanne Kennaugh as she heads towards the end of her tenure in the role and an early preview of this year's Yn Chrunniaght

The search begins for a new bard - H talks to two former holders of the role, a musical Spelling Bee comes to Ballakermeen Studio Theatre and classical guitar at the next concert in the Ramsey Music Society's Summer Series

H hears about a show at the Gaiety featuring over 200 young local singers, chats to historian Andrew Scarffe about his new book on the Laxey Mines Railway