This year's final edition comes from Cambridge Station, where Tony talks to Greater Anglia's Geraint Hughes about the plans in hand for their recently-secured nine-year franchise [for the East of England], as the newly revamped station is fully revealed. … [Read more...]

Tony meets the Master of the Queen's Music, Judith Weir, who studied Music at King’s College, Cambridge, while in Showtime!, a celebration of the life and career of the late Marni Nixon, who (largely unknown) dubbed the singing voices of Deborah Kerr and Audrey Hepburn, among others. Plus another dip into Ben le Vay's Eccentric Cambridge. … [Read more...]

Internationally renowned trumpeter Alison Balsom is looking forward to returning to her Cambridge roots as Artist-in-Residence at the Corn Exchange this week, as she tells Tony Barnfield; Suzie Thorpe is back with another tale from Ben le Vay's Eccentric Cambridge. … [Read more...]

This week's programme comes from The Master's Lodge at Pembroke College, where Tony talks to The Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury PC MA PhD, now Master at his alma mater. … [Read more...]

There's a nostalgic treat in store when Tony turns the clock back to September 1967, when the bright new Radio 1 arrived at the BBC, chasing out the Home Service and the Light and Third Programmes. The musical bill of fare ranges from Carly Simon to Julie Andrews, Justin Timberlake to Herb Alpert, without his Tijuana Brass. And Suzie Thorpe pops in … [Read more...]

In the week that sees Hallowe'en, All Saints, All Souls and Guy Fawkes. Tony's studio guest is the Rev Ron Lancaster MBE, founder of Kimbolton Fireworks, now the UK's only remaining company producing display pyrotechnics. There's music with a seasonal twist, from the musicals and the small screen – plus another dip into Ben le Vay's Eccentric … [Read more...]

Steve Bagnall, Managing Director of Cambridge Live, joins Tony in the studio to preview the 2016/17 Cambridge Classical Concert Series at the Corn Exchange which begins on Friday. Steve also talks about Artist in Residence, trumpeter Alison Balsom, and her role in the season’s educational programme ‘Create’. … [Read more...]