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The Archive Room

The Archive Room

By: Radio Manx Ltd
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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.Copyright Radio Manx Ltd World
Episodes
  • THE ARCHIVE ROOM - Happy 90th birthday to No Limit - and the scary end to the serial!

    THE ARCHIVE ROOM - Happy 90th birthday to No Limit - and the scary end to the serial!
    Mar 27 2025

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

    THE ARCHIVE ROOM - more fascinating true stories from the last century - and our archive serial is reaching a gripping finale!
    Mar 20 2025

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

    THE ARCHIVE ROOM - Great stories from Stanley Karran and David & Terry go to the pictures!
    Mar 14 2025

    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
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    27 mins

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