Cambridgeshire Child and Adolescent Substance Use Service and Cambridge 105 to benefit from charity single A collection of musicians from the Cambridge area are to record their own version of Do They Know It’s Christmas? – the now classic Christmas single – originally recorded in 1984 by Band Aid as part of the Ethiopian famine appeal. … [Read more...]
Davey Hammond’s Smelly Flowerpot: Lost Lungs
Davey Hammond’s studio guests are Stowmarket band Lost Lungs; there’s an interview with Wooden Arms, recorded before their recent gig at the Cambridge Junction and hear tracks from the new LP by psych folktronica artist Jane Weaver. … [Read more...]
105 Drive with Julian Clover: Dot Dot Dot & The South
Julian speaks with Katharine Hibbert of Dot Dot Dot is looking to safeguard empty properties by matching tenants with landlords. We then hear from Dave Hemingway, once of The Housemartins, The Beautiful South, and now The South – they’re at The Cambridge Junction on Friday. … [Read more...]
105 Drive with Julian Clover: Leddra Chapman
Julian chats with singer-songwriter Leddra Chapman. She's a friend and collaborator of Ed Sheeran and has received national airplay. She'll be back in Cambridge at The Portland Arms on November 3rd. … [Read more...]
Greg’s Afternoon Record Club: Sam Harrison
The guest in Greg's Afternoon Record Club this week is Sam Harrison. Sam is a Lincoln born singer songwriter, whose fresh and quirky songs have graced stages at Glastonbury, the Edinburgh fringe and the 2012 Olympics, but who still occasionally comes down to Cambridge to sing and perform at The Alma Sessions. Sam Harrison on Greg's Afternoon … [Read more...]
The Science Show 25/10/2014 – World War One, the Chemists War
How the First World War, that began in 1914, put the world’s chemists to work making chemicals to harm as well as heal though overall with horrific outcomes. The author of two books about the First World War, Dr Michael Freemantle will remind us that Chemistry was not only the destructive force in the war but it also protected the troops, and … [Read more...]
Best of the Guests 20/10/2014
In this week's download, Linda Ness chats to Eddi Reader ahead of her visit to play live in the city, Leigh Chambers meets actress Zoe Svendsen, Phil Rowe speaks to Brian Loughborough who used to sleep rough on the streets of Cambridge and has sinced turned his life around and runs Poetry4Free, Matt Webb is joined in the studio by Mill Road … [Read more...]
