Between 2010 and my rushing to hospital in November 2015 Liz and I ran a kind-of production company writing and presenting weekly radio programmes in English for a few French local radio stations with the aim of making the British and Dutch population of Rural France more up-to-date with French laws, rules and regulations.<\/p>\n
We had a tremendous amount of fun doing them, especially when we had a whole hour to fill at Christmas, so we’d put on our own Christmas Specials to rival Morecambe and Wise.<\/p>\n
I really enjoyed writing those. I was absolutely given my head with no editorial control and so it was a case of “anything goes” – or “everything I had always wanted to do in a radio programme but was always edited out”.<\/p>\n
D\u00e9chain\u00e9<\/em> as you might say around here.<\/p>\n While I’ve been cleaning up my various old hard drives I’ve come across most of the old “Radio Anglais” files and so I’ve uploaded one of our Christmas Specials.<\/p>\n Since I came back from one of my adventures in the High Arctic in November 2019 I’ve been working for a French local radio station here in Granville.<\/p>\n Outside broadcasts (which for obvious reasons, I can no longer do), technology support; music consultant and, on Friday and Saturday nights, my own hourly rock show.<\/p>\n Two years ago I recorded a Christmas rock special, and that’s included too.<\/p>\n If you’re listening on a desktop or laptop computer or similar device, could you download the two above rather than stream them? Streaming plays havoc with my bandwidth and could cost me a fortune if 300 people decide to stream everything.<\/p>\n And that reminds me – neither of my websites is sponsored. I pay for the hosting and streaming etc. myself.<\/p>\n And so if you have enjoyed these pages, please consider making your next Amazon purchase via the links aside. It costs you no extra but I receive a small commission that helps defray expenses<\/p>\n To those of you who do that on a systematic basis, I don’t know who you are of course but I am extremely grateful.<\/p>\n Thirdly, I have a little Inuit friend (well, I have several as it happens, but there’s one in particular) in the town of Uummannaq, about 500 miles north of the Arctic Circle in Greenland.<\/p>\n Uummannaq is the farthest north place where it was possible to revictual THE GOOD SHIP VE … errr … OCEAN ENDEAVOUR<\/a> when we were On The Trail Of John Ross so we put in there a couple of times.<\/p>\n On one occasion in 2018 a group of us went for a walk around the town while the ship was fuelling up, and we heard the sound of a guitar coming from one of the rooms of the Orphanage. And so we went there to check it out, like you do … "like some of you do" – ed<\/em> …<\/p>\n It turned out to be a young girl of 14, an inmate of the orphanage, playing guitar. And we were all totally captivated. It ended up being one hell of a jam with Heidinnguaq (for that’s her name) and SHERMAN DOWNEY<\/a> on guitar, Dylan White on Keyboards and Yours Truly on bass and we finished off with Amy Winehouse’s “Back in the Black”.<\/p>\n Heidinnguaq and I still keep in touch occasionally, and she sent me one of her songs to share with you all as a little Christmas present. That’s on the Christmas page too.<\/p>\n Some of you might have heard it before. Heidinnguaq came to Granville to see us all a couple of years ago and I did a radio programme of her. That was one of the songs that she played. Anyway, THERE YOU ARE<\/a>. Enjoy them all, with love from Liz, Heidinnguaq and me<\/p>\n![\"heidinnguaq](\"https:\/\/www.erichall.eu\/images\/1809\/18091233.jpg\")
<\/a>It goes without saying, of course, that STRAWBERRY MOOSE<\/a> fell in love, and can you blame him? <\/p>\n
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