The Archive Room

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If you’re interested in Island history, if you can’t resist a good story, and if you like meeting great characters, then you’ll love everything in The Archive Room! Real stories, told by the people who were there - using Manx Radio archive recordings to explore every aspect of Island life in years gone by.

  1. 12/27/2025

    A few more of the best bits - suspicions about Santa and stories from someone who never gives interviews!

    Another chance to hear a few gems from the shelf marked 'Christmas' in the Archive Room - including an interview with Geraldine Jamieson - the Manx Radio presenter who never gave interviews!

    51 min

  2. 03/27/2025

    THE ARCHIVE ROOM - Happy 90th birthday to No Limit - and the scary end to the serial!

    As the George Formby classic film No Limit prepares to celebrate it's 90th birthday, we hear from people involved in making - and showing - it back in 1935 - and it's the final episode of our archive serial - The Little Dark Cupboard - spoiler alert - it's scary!!

    27 min

  3. 03/20/2025

    THE ARCHIVE ROOM - more fascinating true stories from the last century - and our archive serial is reaching a gripping finale!

    ETHEL GALE - aged 98 - is full of stories of life down North at the turn of the last century and LAURENCE KERMODE - breaking records by being the oldest person ever to win a class in The Guild when he was aged 100, talks about his early years and his start in the entertainment world. Plus the penultimate episode of our archive serial - The Little Dark Cupboard

    31 min

  4. 03/14/2025

    THE ARCHIVE ROOM - Great stories from Stanley Karran and David & Terry go to the pictures!

    Stanley Karran, born in 1910, lived his whole life in Cregneash - so his fascinating stories are packed with gems of knowledge about the area - and David Callister and Terry Cringle go to the pictures, and chat with some of the cinema managers from the heyday of tourism

    27 min

  5. 03/08/2025

    THE ARCHIVE ROOM - Manx Radio in 1971, 4,000 Irish Sea crossings, and our serial takes a dark turn!

    David Callister talks with Cecil Mitchell, who was given an award after crossing the Irish Sea over 4,000 times on Steam Packet vessels, and Charles Kelly recalls the joys of the Douglas Picture Houses in the early 1900's - plus Episode 5 of 'The Little Dark Cupboard' and a chance to hear the sound of Manx Radio in 1971

    28 min

  6. 03/01/2025

    THE ARCHIVE ROOM - with an auction, a ghost, a shop - and another episode of our archive serial!

    In THE ARCHIVE ROOM this week we visit an auction - all the worldly goods of Dr Alexander Cannon, and a haunted church - St Barnabas in Douglas, then go shopping in 1970's Ramsey - and we finish with another episode in our archive serial - The Little Dark Cupboard, first broadcast on Manx Radio exactly 50 years ago.

    29 min

  7. 02/20/2025

    THE ARCHIVE ROOM - Dr Alexander Cannon - showman, or healer? And a new character emerges in Episode 3 of The Little Dark Cupboard

    Dr Alexander Cannon was a Doctor who also longed to be a magician. What happened in his private clinic and in his theatre is told by people who were there. Howard Simcocks talks about overcoming total blindness in the 1940's and there's Episode 3 of The Little Dark Cupboard

    28 min

  8. 02/18/2025

    THE ARCHIVE ROOM - where we meet Bill Dennard building an airport and Joan Speedie nursing before the NHS

    Bill Dennard was a young surveyor who came to the Island at the end of the 2nd World War, to start building the 4 runways for Ronaldsway Airport, and Joan Speedie remembers her life as a nurse at Nobles before the arrival of the NHS. Plus there's Episode 2 of The Archive Room serial - The Little Dark Cupboard

    35 min
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If you’re interested in Island history, if you can’t resist a good story, and if you like meeting great characters, then you’ll love everything in The Archive Room! Real stories, told by the people who were there - using Manx Radio archive recordings to explore every aspect of Island life in years gone by.

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  • Creator
    Radio Manx Ltd
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    55
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright Radio Manx Ltd
  • Show Website
    The Archive Room