In this July edition, Jim and Steve talk to Chief Librarian Sue Laker with a preview of the annual Summer Exhibition now on display in the library gardens, tour guide Simon De La Rue about tour guiding and the value of the library to preparing his tours, and Alex Bates about his new film 'Born of Water' set in Guernsey in the medieval period. And in the first of our new Guernsey Icons series - Jim also talks to Mark Guppy, whose father created the iconic Original Guernseyman, Stone de Croze.

In this episode, we continue our series on the Guernsey Farmhouse with architect, Andrew Dyke; JP Fallaize talks about researching and exploring the shipwrecks around our shores; for Book of the Month we talk to  Jag Sherbourne about her new book “Clouds in my Guernsey Sky”; and we round off our series on Guernsey Surnames by looking at surnames derived from the father’s name.

In this episode we talk to Architectural historian, Andrew Dyke about the Guernsey farmhouse, with particular reference to the Les Caches, the National Trust’s farmhouse in the Forest; Jim tells the story of his great-great-great-great-grandfather, Lucas Houguez, lighthouse keeper of Les Casquets; Steve takes another look at Guernsey Surnames – with a particular focus on local names derived from nicknames; and in Book of the Month, we talk to Mari Jones of Cambridge University about her “Glossary of the Norman Language in the Channel Islands” and “Sark Sayings”.