Tony Barnfield catches up with Gilbert O’Sullivan, 53 years after they both competed in a BBC Radio 1 talent show, and Kimberley Rew recalls the UK’s last Eurovision Song Contest win 25 years ago. Plus Nicholas Frankau, who played British airman Carstairs in 'Allo! ‘Allo, on reviving his role in Newmarket, while student drama productions feature … [Read more...]
Tony Barnfield: Suzi Digby
Suzi Digby OBE speaks to Tony about her ORA Singers’ new CD Stella and their concert in Trinity College Chapel on Friday, plus ADC Theatre manager Jamie Rycroft looking ahead at their new Summer line-up. And Tony meets the teams behind The Son, and a student-written musical about the trials and tribulations of student theatre. … [Read more...]
Tony Barnfield: Paul Jones
Singer and actor Paul Jones looks back on his wide-ranging career, ahead of The Manfreds’ concert at The Apex on Thursday, while love is at the heart of an off-Broadway revue at the ADC and an Alan Ayckbourn drama at the Corpus Playroom. Plus Lesley Garrett CBE on her one-woman show at the Arts Theatre – and how the 2019 Mill Road Winter Fair … [Read more...]
Tony Barnfield 17/04/2022
This Thursday marks Her Majesty the Queen’s 96th birthday – and the release of a Platinum Jubilee Anthem from Lesley Garrett CBE and Thomas Mace-Archer-Mills, who join Tony for a chat, plus tenor Luciano Botelho on opera at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner on his annual taxi awards, local drama producer Frank Crosby and TV presenter … [Read more...]
Tony Barnfield 27/03/2022
As Ramadan approaches, Tony explores the Muslim faith with Cambridge Professor Tim Winter, known in Islam as Abdal Hakim Murad. And as the final episode of Holby City is set to air, Tony meets hospital boss Henrik Hanssen, alias actor Guy Henry. And, among the week’s theatre openings, he visits Cambridge Operatic Society in rehearsal for Priscilla, … [Read more...]
Tony Barnfield 20/03/2022
Tony Barnfield has the latest on the performing arts and events in Cambridge, reflects on the role of the choral conductor, with Fairhaven Singers’ Ralph Woodward and Janet Wheeler of the Granta Chorale. Plus news of the Mill Road Winter Fair from its Chair Kate Collins. … [Read more...]
Tony Barnfield 13/03/2022
The programme featuring the performing arts in Cambridge, from Music for Ukraine to The Choral Pilgrimage 2022, Jewish people in Poland in 1940 to comic actor Kenneth Williams and Music and climate change to Singin’ in the Rain, Tony Barnfield talks to those involved in events in the week ahead. … [Read more...]
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