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
Cyrano de Bergerac of the Rostand play was Bergerac's cousin, who lived with his sister, Catherine de Bergerac, at the Convent of the Daughter of the Cross. As in the play, Bergerac did fight at the Siege of Arras (1640) a battle of the Thirty Years' War between French and Spanish forces in France (though this was not the more famous final Battle of Arras, fought fourteen years later). One of his confrères in the battle was the Baron Christian of Neuvillette, who married Cyrano's cousin. However, the plotline of Rostand's play, "Cyrano de Bergerac", involving Roxane and Christian is entirely fictional. Cyrano