Jersey’s languages, news, stories, and neighbours.
Voices serves Jersey’s linguistic communities through Portuguese and Polish news bulletins, Jerriais storytelling, and occasional long-form cultural interviews. Its pace moves from practical island updates to myth, memory, music, and public-service detail.
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Voices is a multilingual Jersey programme with the texture of community radio. It carries news, memory, language preservation, literary reading, folklore, and diaspora conversation in one broad feed. Portuguese bulletins sit at the centre of the recent run, with Rui Pires presenting island news for the Portuguese community. Those segments favour practical consequences over abstract headlines. Migrant-worker rights, work permits, health charges, automatic voter registration, school expenses, and ETA travel confusion are treated as matters that shape daily life. The Polish editions, presented by Paulina Ławida, bring a sharper international-news register. They report on war with Iran, British defence planning, pressure from Donald Trump, oil prices, hunger risk, WFP funding strain, and the knock-on effects for Africa and Asia. La Lettre changes the air completely. Its Jerriais and French-inflected episodes linger over Sherlock Holmes, the legend of Arna and Ayuna, La Fontaine des Mites, church responsibilities, old language work, and tributes to figures such as Ralph Nichols. The pace there is slower and more ceremonial. A listener hears local language being kept alive through story, prayer, thanks, and repetition. The Lúcia Macedo interview adds the warmth of biography. It follows a singer from Madeira through migration, family music, restaurant shows, early singles, producer changes, and the unfinished work around Phoenix. The show’s strength is its range of civic and cultural registers. It can move from school-uniform support to nymphs at Belle Hougue, from a Jersey library event with Isabel Ricardo to international famine warnings, without losing its community address. Voices is not sleek. It is specific. Names, places, official rules, songs, books, and personal appeals matter here because the audience is imagined as neighbours rather than market segments. For discovery, its best moments are the ones where language, island life, and migrant memory overlap.
Made for: Voices is for listeners interested in Jersey’s Portuguese, Polish, Jerriais, and wider multilingual communities. It especially suits people who value local public-service information, diaspora memory, language preservation, and gently paced cultural storytelling.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by placing practical community news beside Jerriais folklore, literary readings, and intimate music interviews. It treats multilingual life as ordinary daily infrastructure, not as a special feature.
A celebration of Jersey's diversity in Jerriais, French, Portuguese and Polish.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Voices records how migration, family memory and practical persistence shape the musical lives of its guests.
Voices turns musicians' working lives into detailed oral histories, following the decisions, migrations, family ties and practical setbacks behind a public performance.
Career timelines keep yielding to family voice notes, so you meet the singer beyond the stage.
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A grounded artist interview about place, family, and the slow work of finishing songs.
The interview works best when it stays close to the music and the life around it. Lucia Macedo traces a path from Feijao da Ovelha and school singing to an early stretch in England, a return in 2018, and a life in Crawley.
A warm Madeira-to-Jersey portrait carried by family, memory, and a quietly moving musical turn.
Venancio Costa's visit reads as a warm community portrait shaped by Madeira, Venezuela, Jersey, music, and family pride. It follows his life with calm patience, moving from Madeira to Venezuela and then Jersey, while also holding his marriage, his late start in singing, and the…
A warm interview about Sandra Doria's tribute to her father and the songs behind it.
Voices centers Sandra Doria, a Madeira-born singer, and the tribute she is making to her father, Luis Filipe Aguiar, by reworking his songs with a new sound. The talk moves through archive, memory, and migration.
A warm, biography-first interview that gives a long career its human shape.
Monica Sintra comes across as a singer whose story is anchored in the work itself: 31 years of career, plus turns as a juror, presenter, and commentator on television.
A clear fado portrait that follows Lina Cardoso Rodrigues across borders, training, and a spare new album.
Lina Cardoso Rodrigues is presented as a fadista shaped by movement, with roots that begin in Hamburg in 1984 and settle from 5 months old in Aveleda, Braganca, near Galicia.
Chris Black and Jason Stewart riff on fashion, food, and celebrity culture three times weekly.
Rachel Fisher and Desi Jedeikin dig into true crime, scandal, and pop culture history.
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Billboard's Keith Caulfield and Katie Atkinson break down the week's Hot 100 and 200 charts.
This episode continues the Sherlock Holmes story in 'The Adventure of the Norwood Builder', focusing on Holmes' intense concentration and interactions with Watson as they investigate a case.
The World Food Programme warns that prolonged war in Iran and high oil prices could trigger a global famine affecting 45 million people, exacerbating existing hunger crises.
This Portuguese-language news bulletin from BBC Rádio Jersey announces a visit by acclaimed Portuguese writer Isabel Ricardo to Jersey to present her new book 'O Valor da Liberdade', which uses fantasy to explore the 1974 Carnation Revolution, with details on school visits, library sessions, and a community event at the Wellbeing Hub.
Eva Pritchard, a French teacher at the French school in Oslo, reads a folk legend from the island of Jersey about two water nymphs named Arna and Ayuna who lived for centuries in a coastal cave garden at La Belle Hougue.
Lúcia Macedo, born in Feijão da Ovelha in the Freguesia da Calheta, traces her path from a shy school singer to a stage performer in Crawley, Kent, after support from Lino Santos, also known as DJ Migs.
Boustedanguay Antoine hosts this Jerriais-language episode, paying tribute to Dr.
Este boletim de notícias em português da BBC Rádio de Jersey aborda temas como direitos de trabalhadores migrantes, mudanças no sistema de saúde com novos custos para pacientes, e a introdução de registro automático de eleitores na ilha.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer discusses the ongoing conflict with Iran, emphasizing that a quick end is unlikely and detailing UK efforts to provide defense systems to Middle Eastern partners while maintaining a defensive stance.
A podcast celebrating Jersey's diversity through segments in Jerriais, French, Portuguese, and Polish.
A celebration of Jersey's cultural diversity through segments in Jerriais, French, Portuguese, and Polish.
Venâncio Costa arrives as a singer and a friend.
A celebration of Jersey's cultural diversity through segments in Jerriais, French, Portuguese, and Polish.
A Portuguese-language news bulletin covering local events in Jersey, including a poetry and talent competition for students.
This episode covers a language competition in Jersey featuring recitations and songs in Jerriais, French, Portuguese, and Polish, celebrating the island's linguistic diversity.
A news report on a Jersey politician's proposal to update the law to crack down on illegal taxi drivers operating through Facebook groups.
An interview with Brazilian sertanejo singer Aladim about his duo Rian e Aladim, their music, and audience reception.
This episode covers the Portuguese section of iStatFood, a poetry and singing competition for students in Jersey, highlighting community participation.
An interview with Portuguese popular music star Rosinha, known for her accordion and lively performances, celebrating Jersey's diversity.
Sandra Dória brings a tribute.
Mónica Sintra comes in with warmth.
A Portuguese-language news bulletin from BBC Radio Jersey covering community events and cultural highlights from the past year.
This episode features an interview with the Portuguese-Venezuelan musical duo Xandra and Ricardo, discussing their 30-year career, musical style blending Portuguese and Venezuelan traditions, and family history of emigration from Madeira to Venezuela.
This episode features an interview with Madeiran singer and composer Beatriz Cadoz, discussing her early musical influences and career journey.
A celebration of Jersey's cultural and linguistic diversity through interviews in Jerriais, French, Portuguese, and Polish.
This interview features Bia Cadoz, a Madeiran singer-songwriter who discusses her innovative fusion of traditional fado music with unexpected genres like techno, rap, and sertanejo, including her experience performing at an electronic music festival.
François le Maître discusses a TV program about teaching Jerriais in a primary school and a book launch event.
A celebration of Jersey's cultural diversity through segments in Jerriais, French, Portuguese, and Polish.
A celebration of Jersey's cultural diversity through Jerriais language events, including festivals, music, and poetry.
A news report on Poland's new work permit regulations for foreigners and their impact on labor shortages.
A celebration of Jersey's cultural diversity through interviews in Jerriais, French, Portuguese, and Polish.
A podcast celebrating Jersey's cultural diversity through segments in Jerriais, French, Portuguese, and Polish.
A celebration of Jersey's cultural and linguistic diversity through interviews in Jerriais, French, Portuguese, and Polish.
An interview with Madeiran singer-songwriter Elisa discussing her musical influences, authenticity in live performances, and personal identity.
A celebration of Jersey's diversity through segments in Jerriais, French, Portuguese, and Polish.
A Jersey resident recounts his work painting boat colors at a museum, reflecting on cultural diversity.
Lina Cardoso Rodrigues talks fado, family, and movement.