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It has been just over a year since Express took its first steps into the world of news podcasts... More than 100 episodes later, we decided to look back at your top 10 listens...
Without further ado, here's our 'top of the pods' countdown...
10. Carbon neutral roadmap
After Jersey’s politicians decided that the island must start driving towards net zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2020, Express spoke to the man with the ‘roadmap’, senior government policymaker Steve Skelton…
Serious bullying allegations, staff shortages, buildings which are no longer fit for purpose, and a new hospital still four years away...
The daily challenges for senior managers in Jersey's Health Department only seem to be worsening.
Bracing for flu season after 18 months of a pandemic, the then-Group Managing Director, Rob Sainsbury, shared his honest take on the health of Health...
Why do we need a 900-kmsq Marine National Park in Jersey's territorial waters?
Express speaks to Freddie Watson of Blue Marine Foundation, a charity that has campaigned for the park's formation, to find out just that…
Amid warnings that hundreds of islanders could suffer fatigue, joint pain and ‘brain fog’for up to three years after being infected with covid-19, we spoke to one young islander about her experience of Long Covid…
Inappropriate comments. Playground porn. Upskirting. Assault.
In the wake of Sarah Everard's death and the Everyone's Invited revelations, schoolgirls who previously suffered sexual harassment once brushed off as 'banter' or 'boys will be boys' are now speaking up - including in Jersey.
It’s a difficult time at the prison.
While an ambitious programme to transform the service and introduce a new ‘Seven Pathways’ approach to reducing reoffending is underway, budget constraints, staffing and morale struggles, and the pandemic are all posing problems...
Six months into the job, Express spoke to Prison Governor Susie Richardson.
It’s a school designed to look after some of Jersey’s most vulnerable children, but it’s been likened to a “containment facility”… Is this really what ‘putting children first’ looks like?
Back in 2005 the States did a deal with global chemical giant 3m, to accept £2.6m, in return for agreeing never to take legal action about the pollutant PFOS which had got into the water supply from fire-fighting foam used at the airport.
The details in that agreement, were never made public… until Express shared them.
This wasn’t betting as we know it.
Jersey-based Football Index was a self-styled ‘football stock market’ where fans could grow ‘investment portfolios’ worth thousands - then suddenly the company collapsed, and their money disappeared.
Regulatory referees in Jersey and the UK are now consulting the VAR screens to see if there was a foul. But some players are wondering if the refs were paying full attention to the match…
A man who had served his island for more than 37 years as a Deputy, Senator and then Constable... Len Norman was Home Affairs Minister when he died, but he was much more than that to many islanders.
His brother Les celebrates a life well-lived.
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