1) A Postcard From… The Past (Occupation survivor Reginald Whitley)

‘A Postcard From… The Past’ is a special edition series of short podcasts hearing the memories of Occupation survivors in Jersey.

Carrie Cooper spoke with Occupation survivor Reginald Whitely who tells us about his appetite for getting one over on the Germans as a teenager. First however, he begins by introducing himself and offering his age…

* ArtHouse Jersey commissioned artist Helen Marshal from The People’s Picture to create a large scale mosaic portrait made up of over six thousand individual Jersey faces called The Face of Liberation. The public art will now be displayed in St Helier later this year. Part of that project was about trying to discover ‘the face’, the person whose portrait would be depicted in the final artwork. And that meant speaking to many people about their memories of the Occupation. *