Simon Bertin presents highlights from the spring Cambridge Literary Festival, including interviews with Samira Ahmed and Sophie Raworth on their new books, plus poetry from Harry Baker’s Tender. Also, multimedia artist Diana Scarborough gives a tour of her installation at Sidney Sussex College, and artist Ben Varney discusses Disquiet and Misrule, … [Read more...]

Simon Bertin meets acclaimed sculptor Harry Gray, discovering why his bold figurative style keeps winning him high-profile commissions for standout public artworks. … [Read more...]

Simon Bertin meets the directors of Infusion Physical Theatre Dance Company to explore Soothe: Dance and Brain Chemistry, a performance blending movement with the science of the mind. Plus, backstage at Cambridge Operatic Society’s Guys and Dolls at the Cambridge Arts Theatre with the director and leading actor, and a return visit to the David Parr … [Read more...]

Simon Bertin visits the Cambridge Arts Theatre where CEO Rachel Tackley gives an update on the theatre’s redevelopment project; we drop in on artist Naomi Tomkyss OBE who is exhibiting at Fitzbillie’s on Kings Parade and Cambridge University’s anthropologist Dr Carol Brown-Leonardi, curator of the Legacies of Windrush in Cambridge Exhibition. … [Read more...]

In Cambridge Arts Roundup, Simon Bertin joins Cambridge University’s Dr Marina Velez Vago on a visit to the Archaeology and Anthropology Museum; the qualities of Ghost stories written by women and performed at the Leper Chapel by Insitu theatre’s Richard Spaul; Jas Chadha goes to Stapleford Granary to visit multidisciplinary artist Harry Cory … [Read more...]

Simon Bertin encounters sculptor Ian Wolter at his new exhibition Perfection: Exploring Perfection in the Human Condition at the Wightman gallery; the philosophical issues of artificial intelligence and art with Fitzwilliam College associate professor Dr Alex Carter; and Dr James Freeman on how people approached the medicinal in medieval times in … [Read more...]