Schedule

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On Air | Morning | Afternoon | Evening | Week at a Glance

Morning:

07:00 - 08:00 Early Breakfast

Ross Watchman presents a great variety of music to start your Sunday. And why not have a go at his weekly brainteaser? Programme Website

08:00 - 10:00 John Gannon's 60s Scene

John Gannon selects more tracks from the 1960s, along with the Guitar Twangers' Corner featuring The Outlaws and the Top 10 chart from this day in 1960. Programme Website

10:00 - 11:00 Women Making Waves

Women Making Waves features women who each play a positive part in shaping our society and are at the forefront of empowering change. Presented by Suzie Thorpe & Linda Ness. Programme Website

11:00 - 12:00 Bookmark Listen Again

Featured guest, Jim Kelly, talks to Leigh Chambers about his new novel, The Silent Child, set between a Nazi concentration camp in 1944 and the dividing of Berlin in 1961. Dorothy Koomson chats about her latest emotional thriller, My Other Husband. And John Phelps discusses his crime novel The Vulcan who got into Print. Programme Website

Afternoon:

12:00 - 13:00 The Cambridgeshire Tinder Swindlers

In a 105 News Special, Neil Whiteside discovers the dangers portrayed in the Netflix documentary The Tinder Swindler are all too real and can lead to coercive control. Programme Website

13:00 - 14:00 From the Terraces Listen Again

If you love local football then join Tim Armitage and the From the Terraces team as they follow Cambridge United, Cambridge City, Histon and our local women sides through another exciting season. Programme Website

14:00 - 15:00 Tony Barnfield Listen Again

Cambridge Climate Change Festival Director Antoinette Nestor tells Tony about next weekend’s events, while public health officer Emmeline Watkins warns that cases of flu might eclipse those of Covid this Winter, plus James Critchley and Raffaella Sero on the female Heathcliff in the ADC’s Wuthering Heights and Gonville & Caius team captain on tomorrow’s University Challenge. Programme Website

15:00 - 16:00 Classical Cambridge Listen Again

Tony Barnfield hears about the art of conducting from New Cambridge Sinfonia’s Howard Williams, while Sarah Henderson and Harrison Cole discuss the music of Kenneth Leighton, plus Carlos Rodriguez Otero and Madeleine Brown on programming around Rachmaninov’s popular Second Piano Concerto, as featured in the 1945 film Brief Encounter. Programme Website

16:00 - 17:00 Jazz Today

Pete Butchers samples new releases from trumpeter Dave Douglas, guitarist Rene Lussier and the quintet Chuffdrone. He’ll also be running through the jazz gigs coming up in and around Cambridge, illustrated with music from the Espen Eriksen Trio, coming to Stapleford Granary later this month. Programme Website

17:00 - 18:00 Polish Waves

Monika Wiacek talks about premiere of Halka, one of the most popular Polish operas by Stanislaw Moniuszko, and hears from Stepen Ellery the director of Polish Opera in London and Jaroslaw Zawartko, who makes his UK debut with the new production. Plus the usual selection of great Polish music. Programme Website

18:00 - 19:00 Songs from the Gaelic World

Martin Atherton plays music recorded in Scottish and Irish Gaelic. Programme Website

Evening:

19:00 - 20:00 The Big Band Show

John Hammond presents the fortnightly show that plays big band tracks from the top ensembles as well as local bands recorded over the last 60-70 years. Programme Website

20:00 - 21:00 Let The Good Times Roll

Jackie Bond spins a selection of discs from the first decade of rock and roll and revisits the career of Mickey Gilley, singer, songwriter, theatre owner and urban cowboy who passed away in May. Programme Website

21:00 - 22:00 Queer Cambridge

Hannah Bestwick and Daisy Thurston-Gent present Cambridge 105 Radio’s dedicated LGBTQ show. We give you the low down on the LGBTQ events you can go to around Cambridge, and take a look at queer news happening nationally and locally. And every song we play is by either a queer artist or has a strong association for LGBTQ people. Programme Website

22:00 - 23:00 Stagger

The alternative music show with rap, electronica and experimental music. Programme Website

23:00 - 00:00 Evening Under Lamplight

Robert-Louis Abrahamson delves into the Archives for a show attending to a lively passage from Walt Whitman, his "call in the midst of the crowd”, and moves to the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea, which we attend to from various angles. You are invited to attend. Programme Website