A party of 37 men left Peel aboard a two-masted schooner called the Vixen to sail to Melbourne in Australia. The idea was that they would seek their fortune in digging for gold. We hear a poem about their departure and then entries in the diary kept by Henry Maddrell Graves about some of the events on their voyage. After 92 days - which included 21 days becalmed - they reached Melbourne on 2nd May 1853.
Our short story in Manx is about a self-confessedly boring man, rather old-fashioned and lacking in confidence, whose life is changed when he's unexpectedly tempted to buy an electric tooth brush.
As y kiaull ain -
CARREG LAFAR - Y gleisiad yn y gwanwyn
SINEAD O'CONNOR - Baidin Fheilimi
MIKE JAMES & YVES LEBLANC - Pas a sept
DOOLISH Y KARAGHER & BRIAN MAC STOYLL - She inneen jeh'n vochilley boght
GWENNO - Amser
DA CAMERA - Andante/Minuet (Spring - The Ranunculus : James Oswald)
KATHERINE JENKINS & CATRIN FINCH - Dafydd y Garreg Wen
THE POGUES & THE DUBLINERS - The Irish Rover
RUA MACMILLAN - Ooh, Pierre!
