It’s called Cracked Voices - the aim of the project is to create a 60-minute classical song cycle using forgotten voices from Cambridgeshire and North Hertfordshire. Cracked Voices is also focusing on the lives of extraordinary people - and on Saturday, the premiere will take place at Anglia Ruskin University. Graham and Jenni joined Daniel … [Read more...]
Arts Round Up: Art of Float, Oggie Tomic and Lady Sybil
In this edition Simon Bertin is immersed in a flotation tank at Art of Float and encounters artist Kay Goodridge at a venue with a creative difference; Cambridge Film Maker Oggie Tomic talks about a range of interesting new projects and on how drones belong in the hands of the responsible; and author Simon Boyd launches Lady Sybil at the Cambridge … [Read more...]
The Ivy Cambridge opens this month
In the Friday Foodclub Julian Clover and Drive Chef Jamie Mountford are joined by Stuart Conibear, head chef of The Ivy Cambridge Brasserie set to open on Trinity Street on March 14. … [Read more...]
Charity of the Month: Findacure – Shelly’s Story
For the last of our interviews with Charity of the Month Findacure, Julian Clover spoke to Shelly Simmonds. In 2014, Shelly’s son Fraser was 11 months old, he was diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. He was also joined in the studio by Katie Cliss - Fundraising Officer at Findacure. … [Read more...]
Suzie Thorpe: Dr Gill Sutherland
This year London will get its first statue of a woman in Parliament Square. Historian and fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, Dr Gillian Sutherland joined Suzie and explained how Suffragist leader Millicent Garrett Fawcett will join the ranks of 11 statesmen who have been honoured with monuments there. … [Read more...]
Suzie Thorpe: Going Plastic Free
In a bid to remind herself and her friends about the world’s waste problems, Cambridge resident and teacher Hilary Tunnicliffe decided to go plastic-free for February. This afternoon Hilary talked to Suzie about what she hopes will become a lifelong passion. … [Read more...]
Leigh Chambers: Most Paper Planes in 15 Minutes World Record Attempt
Leigh’s guest was Fernando Pinho, founder of local charity Please Take Me There which provides humanitarian transport for sick children. Fernando will be explaining why he’s hoping his attempt to break the world record for the most paper planes made in 15 minutes will help raise funds for a specially designed aircraft. … [Read more...]