One to Three

The One World Centre Charity Challenge is underway and students from 6th Forms around the Island are taking part, raising funds and awareness for some of the smaller charities around the world. Camilla, Evie, Issy and Hannah from Castle Rushen High School team 'Seed Madagascar' tell Christy about their own project and charity. Find out more here

Christy catches up with Jude Fullerton from Douglas Choral Union and two of the leading cast from the upcoming production of 'Chicago', Jordan McCormack who plays Velma and Evie Skillicorn who plays Roxie. Fascinating to learn about the real life events that inspired the murderous storyline! The show runs at the Gaiety from 7th to 15th Feb.

On a particularly grey day here on the Isle of Man - and on the day of the year recently labelled 'Blue Monday', we decided that the best person to speak to would be happiness expert and CEO of Laughology Stephanie Davies, on the subject of using colour to our advantage.

Christy visits the new South Beach Shelter, built by the community, for the community - then runs in to the sea...

Local legend Dot Tilbury popped in to tell us about her upcoming concert in Marown on January 25th, with a host of fabulous guests AND a good Manx supper, all raising money for the young cyclists.

St Ninian's High School students Emma Worsfold, Lindi Nyoni, Lucie Williams, Ella Edwards and Freya Beggs tell us about the One World Centre Street Child Charity Challenge. You can find them on Instagram @streetchildsnhs

On Boxing Day, hundreds of hardy folk across the tiny Isle get together to take part in two great Manx traditions: Hunt the Wren in the morning, then it's off to St Johns for 'Cammag'. With tales of knobbly sticks, zero rules and (friendly) fights on the field, we thought it best to find out from those in the know - 3 generations of Callisters who've been playing it for decades. 3  generation...

Christy and Howard have a very festive afternoon at Hospice Isle of Man, chatting with staff, volunteers and fundraisers to find out about the year that’s been and the year to come.

Drum teacher Ed Wilson tells us about the return of Carolaoke, an event which proved so popular, they've had to move venues to accommodate the audience! This year, the event is being held in the Ramsey Lifeboat Station on Sunday from 2pm and is raising funds for the RNLI, with audience members encouraged to sing along to their favourite Christmas songs with a live band backing them.

Christy chats with the voice of Love Island, Iain Stirling, ahead of his stand up gig at the Gaiety in February. They talk Taskmaster, tiling issues, stalker journos and f4rts in j4rs. That's when he eventually turns up... ;-)

Christy catches up with Caroline Devlin about a new carol that she's written to help support Ballaugh Old Church

Dennis Curphey from the Queens Pier Restoration Trust speaks to Christy about some of the events they have coming up over the festive period and into 2025.

Christy catches up with cast and crew from Stage-Ed's 2024 Panto production, Dick Whittington - with Producer Steve Palfreman, Director Mark Hilton, Sarah the Cook - aka writer Jolyon Dixon and Dick Whittington himself, played by Millie Christian

This weekend, Nov 23rd and 24th, sees the return of the popular Laxey Christmas Markets. Beckie Williams from the Laxey Institute tells Christy more

🎭The Panto is back in Peel (oh no it isn't!) 🐰Christy chats with some of the cast and crew - Kayleigh, Lisa, Victoria and Ellie - ahead of Peel Pantoloons' production of Alice In Wonderland which starts at the Centenary Centre on Dec 1st. 🎟 Get tickets at Celtic Gold or online from the Peel Centenary Centre here: https://www.centenarycentre.com/

Carl Parker and John Walker talk to us about the new Parker and Snell adaptation of Victor Hugo's 'Les Miserables', which is on at the Gaiety from Weds 20th Nov to 23rd Nov. Tickets available here: Les Misérables - The Drama

Kate Bergquist and Gary Thomas tell us about the free all-day event being organised for International Men's Day, with everything from glass bottom kayaking to whittling, bushcraft to sauna and sea dipping. The event is on Nov 30th and you can book on here: GreenCreek

Fynoderee Distillery have just released their most special product to date: Refuge Manx Rum. A real labour of love, the spirit took a year to mature, left out on the Tower of Refuge to take in all the elemental flavours. With a very limited number of bottles now on sale, 20% of every single sale goes to the RNLI, to mark the Manx born organisation's 200th Anniversary. Tiffany Kerruish tells Christ...

You might remember Pippa Lovell as being the award winning Chef behind foraging restaurant Versa in Port Erin, well, she moved back to the UK earlier this year (not forever though) and will be appearing on BBC 1 TONIGHT at 9pm, in the current series of Masterchef the Professionals. Christy caught up with her this morning to try find out a bit about it. And don't worry, no spoilers here!

10 year old Aastha Vakil is a rising star in inspirational music who shares her time between Mumbai, London and the Isle of Man. She has just released a new song and video, which was filmed at Ballakermeen High School with children from Rachel Wild's Performance Studio, titled "Believe in Yourself." The project aims to promote children's mental health awareness and empower children to develop resi...

Leanne Harper and Jane Anderson, from the Dan Kneen Charitable Trust, tell us about their new project 'TORQ', which provides mental health support to TT racers and their families working alongside coaches from Rock to Recovery . We also get the details of the annual 14 Ball, with a hint at some of the money-can't-buy auction items... Book your tickets for the ball and find out more about the chari...

Ruth Keggin Gell tells us about this year's Cooish, the Manx Language Festival, taking place from 6th to 10th November across the Island. There are events as varied as cocktail making sessions to sea swims, tiny talks to games nights. See learnmanx.com/cooish for all the details

Our One2Three charity this week is TORQ, previously the Dan Kneen Charitable Fund. Still very much a tribute to Dan, they continue to support organisations like the Rob Vine Fund but now also have a focus on providing mental health support to riders and their family and friends, during the racing schedule and beyond. Leanne Harper and Jane Anderson tell us more about the charity and it's goals.

Christy catches up with much loved British comedian, (song)writer, historian and presenter Frank Skinner, ahead of his first visit to the Island on November 3rd, bringing his '30 Years of Dirt' tour to the Gaiety Theatre.

Viv Cornelius , a volunteer fundraiser and John Knight , Hospice Isle of Man CEO, update us on upcoming events - from bingo to Hop tu Naa parties - and they also give us the lowdown on what it means to be a volunteer for the local charity. Find out more about volunteering here , and about the various events here .