Cambridge Breakfast

After 20 years of working in natural history museums and searching out wild mammals around the world, zoologist and author Jack Ashby has decided that platypuses are the best animals to have ever evolved. He explains why to Julian Clover ahead of a Cambridge Festival session later this month. … [Read more...]

Julian hears from Jana Voigt, CEO of InferSens, one of the #21toWatch, Cofinitive's campaign to showcase what's been invented, developed and discovered in Cambridge. InferSens won in the ‘things’ category with its revolutionary ‘deep tech’ technology which is enabling ‘deep learning’ on device in the field on low-cost battery power for the very … [Read more...]

The Cambridgeshire Fens are facing threats from climate change, the availability of water, and the peat soil becoming exhausted and emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Julian hears from Dr Laurie Friday and Tom Marquand, who are leading a Cambridge Festival session next month. … [Read more...]

Julian visits Maggie’s at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, where he meets Caz Randell, who’s living with Clear Cell Carcinoma, and Professor James Brenton, clinician-scientist and Senior Group Leader at Cancer Research UK. … [Read more...]

Councillor Alex Collis explains the decision to end the annual Big Weekend. In conversation with Julian Clover, she also discusses the weekend's march against the Congestion Charge. … [Read more...]

Friday (February 24) marked one year since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Anatolii Pavlovskyi, a co-founder of Cambridge4Ukraine, is in the studio with Julian Clover.   … [Read more...]

Major rail projects to improve railway infrastructure around Cambridgeshire are to be carried out between Saturday 11 March and the late May bank holiday. Julian Clover speaks to Stephen Deaville from Network Rail which is running the work. … [Read more...]