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This Is Islay is a community podcast celebrating the people, places, events and connections which shape the Hebridean island communities of Islay and Jura.
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Reading Fun at Port Ellen Primary - Part 2 (opens the original)
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Continuing our collaboration with Islay primary schools, this episode features the students across Port Ellen Primary discussing their favourite fact-finding books, as well as characters from their most-loved storybooks. Students also offer their reading recommendations to their friends and classmates. Recorded in April 2026. (Part 2 of 2) Acknowledgements: Many thanks to Amy Hannett, and other staff and students of Port Ellen Primary School who contributed to this episode through recordings mad
Reading Fun at Port Ellen Primary - Part 1 (opens the original)
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Marking the new school year, and continuing our collaboration with Islay primary schools, this episode features the students across Port Ellen Primary discussing their favourite fact-finding books, as well as characters from their most-loved storybooks. Students also offer their reading recommendations to their friends and classmates. Recorded in April 2026. (Part 1 of 2) Acknowledgements: Many thanks to Amy Hannett, and other staff and students of Port Ellen Primary School who contributed to th
2026 Islay Book Festival (opens the original)
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Discover what makes the Islay Book Festival unique. In this episode, This Is Islay's Jolyon Thurgood chats with Charlène Busali, Creative Director of the 2026 Islay Book Festival, We learn about the book creators and special guests who make up the festival and how its events engage the Islay community and visitors alike. The 2026 Islay Book Festival takes place 27-30 August. We also feature introductions from three book creators who join the Festival this year: - Polly Pullar, author of In Compa
Young Minds & Big Topics at Islay High School (opens the original)
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In this episode, a group of students from Islay High School have created their own podcast. They did so as part of their journalism and media studies, as a result of a two day Media Skills programme sponsored at the High School by the National Union of Journalists and led by Fiona Macdonald, a well known BBC broadcaster and journalist with the World Service. During the workshop, she worked closely with all attendees, who included a couple of This Is Islay podcasters, but this episode is largely
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