Tag: broadcasting
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Guernsey's entire police force is arrested, Sark is the star of a Channel 4 drama, and Jersey is brought to a standstill by a hoax bomb threat. The first episode of Puffin's Pla(i)ce is broadcast across the Channel Islands, Guernsey Airport hires a dead man as its new boss, and, when a man slips and falls on the steps to Jersey's Fort Regent, it's only after he dies that the mystery of who he really is emerges.
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The Channel Islands’ last witch trial
Amy Lake stands trial for witchcraft and setting a mortal curse on her neighbour in the run-up to the First World War, Alfred Hitchcock has reason to be grateful for a surprising Jersey connection, and an oil rig on its way to South America washes up on Guernsey's coast. Guernsey politicians unveil plans for a new airport, and Jersey Airways offers to cover the cost of construction - but only if it can have a monopoly on landing and taking off there. Politicians in Jersey meet to decide whether they want a commercial or BBC radio station, and Isaac Newton gives a Guernsey inventor's device the once-over... before it's lost for ever.
