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Cambridge 105 Radio at Christmas 2017

 

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Full Schedule at: http://cambridge105.co.uk/schedule/

Festive highlights across the city and South Cambridgeshire

Commenting on the schedule Tim Willett, Station Manager, Cambridge 105 Radio said: “Across the holiday period Cambridge 105 Radio listeners can enjoy a wide range of Christmas specials as well as shows by their favourite presenters

“Whether you want to listen to carols performed by local school choirs, relive memories of 1967, or join on a treasure hunt across the city we’ve got something for you

“It’s sometimes hard to believe that everyone you hear on air – and works behind the scenes – at Cambridge 105 Radio is a volunteer who gives up their time for the benefit of the listener.” 

Performances and Events

  • Mandy Morton and Seven youth and school choirs join 600 people for the annual Rotary Club of Cambridge Christmas Concert at Great St Mary’s Church, Cambridge. [Christmas Day at 12 noon]
  • Julian Clover presents live coverage of the traditional Midnight Mass from Our Lady and the English Martyrs Catholic Church in Cambridge. [Christmas Eve at 11.20pm]
  • Tim Willett takes a look back at his favourite New Music Generator studio sessions of 2017 [Christmas Day at 9pm]

Factual

  • Dr Sue Bailey recalls the life of one of the first celebrity chefs, Fanny Craddock, recreating her performance from the Museum of Cambridge. [Christmas Eve at 6pm]
  • Julian Clover speaks to those who Cambridge 105 Radio has given their first taste of broadcasting. [Christmas Day at 5pm]
  • Paul Christoforou recalls the magical year of 1967 when Cambridge was visited by Duke Ellington, Cambridge United and Cambridge City were in the Southern League Premier League and Cambridge business Pye was taken over by Royal Dutch Philips. [Christmas Day at 6pm]
  • Folk-rock band Fairport Convention are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year and in an exclusive interview with the band’s founding member Simon Nicol, Mandy Morton traces their history, fraught with comings and goings, a fatal motorway crash and a dogged determination to survive five decades of the British music industry. [Christmas Eve at 8pm]
  • The award-winning Talking Men returns with a one-hour special. In this episode Matt Webb looks at male victims of domestic abuse, male loneliness, men’s mental health and looks back at some of the key topics raised by MPs during this year’s International Men’s Day debate in Parliament. [30 December at 2pm]
  • Tony Barnfield examines life and its challenges in conversation with Terry Waite CBE, who came to Cambridge after 1,763 days imprisonment in Lebanon, and former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, now Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. [Christmas Day at 2pm]
  • Julian Clover introduces Cambridge 105 Radio’s highlights of the year in Rewind 2017 [30 December at 1pm]

Entertainment

  • Breakfast presenters Neil Whiteside and Linda Ness provide the perfect soundtrack to your Christmas morning. [Christmas Day at 10am]
  • Neil Whiteside and Linda Ness play the very best in soul and disco to take us into 2018. [New Year’s Eve at 11pm]
  • While Neil & Linda have a Christmas lie-in, Julian Clover wakes up the city and South Cambridgeshire. [Boxing Day to 29 December at 7am]
  • Brian O’Reilly and Ian Daborn present the first Breakfast show of 2018. [New Year’s Day at 8am]
  • Tim Willett introduces the fifth Where’s Flossie? treasure hunt around the city as Louise Wilson is the willing runner but will she find the treasure in time? [New Year’s Eve at 1pm]
  • Tony Barnfield explores the evergreen appeal of Christmas, encountering on the way Arts Theatre pantomime Dame Matt Crosby, Canadian conductor and musician Sarah MacDonald and Emma Meade, blind from birth, not to mention people on the streets of Cambridge! [Christmas Eve at 1pm]
  • Neil Jones is joined by Therapy lead singer and local boy Andy Cairns for a chat about the band’s plans for 2018. [Boxing Day at 9pm]

Sport

  • Daniel Baker looks at the Boxing Day football sporting action. [Boxing Day at 1pm]
  • In a 2-hour special Tim Armitage and the From the Terraces team review the festive football action from our local sides. [27 December at 5pm]
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Posted: 18 December 2017 | Last Updated 18 December 2017

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