Culture of Jersey picked up on the neighbouring coast of the Norman mainland. One of the best known portrayals of Jersey on the small screen was the BBC's crime drama - "Bergerac", featuring John Nettles as Jim Bergerac as a policeman in "Le Bureau des Étrangers" (a fictional department, based on the real "Bureau des Étrangers", for dealing with non-Jersey residents). This was filmed mainly in Jersey, but storylines increasingly moved further afield to England and France. Jersey has two local radio stations, BBC Radio Jersey and Channel 103 The island's patron saint is Saint Helier. The established church is the Church of
Battle of Bergerac Battle of Bergerac The Battle of Bergerac was fought in August 1345. An Anglo-Gascon army commanded by Henry of Grosmont, Earl of Derby, defeated a French force under Henri de Montigny, Seneschal of Périgord, outside the walls of Bergerac. The French suffered heavy casualties and the loss of the town. In the ninth year of the Hundred Years' War, Edward III of England decided to launch a major attack on the French from the north, while sending smaller forces to Brittany and Gascony. The French focused on the threat to northern France, leaving comparatively small forces in the south west.