Trevor Dann meets the BBC's former diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall who’s now the Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge University’s oldest college. One of the UK’s most distinguished reporters talks about reporting from Moscow, interviewing Putin, fake news, social networks and the future of journalism. … [Read more...]
Cambridge Minds: Sander van der Linden
When Cambridge psychologist Dr Sander van der Linden announced that people might be immunised against fake news, he found himself making the news. … [Read more...]
Cambridge Minds: Chris Young
Trevor Dann meets Professor Chris Young, deputy head of the University of Cambridge’s School of Arts & Humanities. Chris specialises in the study of medieval German literature and culture, but he’s also written extensively about German sport. Perhaps he knows why the Germans always win on penalties. … [Read more...]
Cambridge Minds: Steve McCauley
Trevor Dann returns with the programme where we meet some of the brains who make our city one of the great intellectual capitals of the world. In this edition Steve McCauley, from University of Cambridge's Centre For Rising Powers helping political leaders to find imaginative new ways to tackle world problems. … [Read more...]
Cambridge Minds: Carolin Crawford
Trevor Dann returns with the programme where we meet some of the brains who make our city one of the great intellectual capitals of the world. In the first show Dr Carolin Crawford, public astronomer at Cambridge University’s Institute of Astronomy. … [Read more...]
Cambridge Minds – Trish Sheil & Rupert Featherstone
Trevor Dann meets two more of Cambridge’s thinkers. Trish Sheil from the Arts Picturehouse is Education Officer for the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium and a guest lecturer in film studies at Anglia Ruskin University. Art historian Rupert Featherstone is director of the Hamilton Kerr Institute, assistant director of conservation for the Fitzwilliam … [Read more...]
Cambridge Minds – Jem Davies & Andy Salmon
Trevor Dann interviews some of the university city’s brightest stars. In this edition Jem Davies, Technology VP and Fellow at ARM and Andy Salmon, Deputy Dean for Partnerships & Enterprise at Anglia Ruskin University. Jem talks about how a firm based in Cambridge has become market dominant in smartphones and tablets worldwide and about his … [Read more...]