Spotlight - Manx Radio

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

H looks forward to this year's Manannan Festival at the EAC, here's about a Pride Film Festival and more on a great new guide to some of the Island's hidden wonders.

H hears about a wonderful new book highlighting the Island's unknown wonders, calls in to see Momma Moon in her studio and hear about a forthcoming exhibition, and Xpoet Saiorshe Coyle-Carroll tells us about her journey into poetry

Drums, teeth and XPoetry - what more could you want!

As the 80th anniversary of VE Day takes place, we hear how bell ringers on the Island will be taking place in a celebratory ring across the British Isles, a new exhibition of the work of Island-born wartime photographer Leonard McCombe and we hear this year's Cleveland Medal winner, Ruth Tickle.

H gets the naked truth about a forthcoming production of Calendar Girls the musical, hears about this weekend's Great Laxey Great Brass Band Festival and also more about Sunday's celebration of the coming of May - Oie Voaldyn

H hears about this year's wonderfully eclectic Oie Voaldyn Festival, talks to the adjudicator at the MADF Easter Festival of Plays and more advice for those wishing to break into the music business from Arts Council Graduate Intern, Callum Rowe

H hears about this year's IOM Art Society Easter Exhibition and drops down to see the preparations in progress, IOMAC Graduate Intern Callum Rowe tells him about Music Pathways, and Manx Youth Bard Ellie Reynolds has a poem penned on a bus!

H goes along to the opening of the spectacular new Archibald Knox exhibition at the Manx Museum, hears about the iconic Untold Orchestra coming to the Island and catches up with new Manx Youth Bard, Ellie Reynolds.

Andy hits the road again with the likes of Eric Church, Cameron Whitcomb and Scotty McCreery

H hears about this year's Easter Festival of Plays, a second collection of work from former Bard Owen Atkinson, more from the newly appointed Biosphere Photographers in Residence and Shennaghys Jiu this coming weekend

H catches up with the new Biosphere Photographers in Residence, hears about a large-scale choral work coming up at the Gaiety Theatre . . and some biting art heading to the Loom Gallery in this year's Open Art Competition . .