Morning:
07:00 - 08:00 Early Breakfast
Ross Watchman presents great music to start your day. Programme Website
08:00 - 10:00 John Gannon's 60s Scene
This week's show features: Fats Domino, Gary Puckett & Union Gap, The Turtles, Jimmy Ruffin, and The Fortunes. Plus the Guitar Twangers Corner, the B-Side/A-side feature and the Top Ten Chart, taken from August 23rd 1967. 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
Leigh is joined by Jennifer Wallace who’ll be choosing the music and discussing her new book, Tragedy Since 9/11, which argues that a knowledge of tragedy in literature can help us understand tragic events of the 21st century. Children’s writer, Janet Bingham, talks about why she was drawn to the picture book genre. And YA author, Bex Hogan, chats about world-building for her first novel, Viper, and how it all came about as the result of a dream. (R) Programme Website
Afternoon:
12:00 - 13:00 What You Might Have Missed
The weekly look at the big talking points in the city and South Cambridgeshire, along with the guests we've been hearing from on-air. Programme Website
12:00 - 13:00 What You Might Have Missed
Ian Daborn features the neighbours who have created their own play area on a spare piece of land and the Cambridge film-maker working on a sci-fi film in tribute to his friend, and former Abstracts frontman, Felix Morgan. Programme Website
12:00 - 13:00 What You Might Have Missed
The weekly look at the big talking points in the city and South Cambridgeshire, along with the guests we've been hearing from on-air. Programme Website
13:00 - 14:00 Roundabout with Tony Barnfield
Bridget Kendall, first female Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge’s oldest College, talks about her years with the BBC in Moscow, Washington and as Diplomatic Correspondent in another of Tony Barnfield’s most significant interviews from the last four years. (Revised repeat from 8 January 2017) Programme Website
14:00 - 15:00 Community Focus
In a special edition marking 30 years since changes in technologies lead to mass redundancies at the then Cambridge Evening News, Neil Whiteside meets those who were there at the time and joins a reunion of the Class of ’89. (R) Programme Website
15:00 - 17:00 Jazz Today
Pete will be featuring the twin pianos of Ran Blake and Frank Carlberg, movie music from an Italian big band, the compositions of Anthony Braxton interpreted by the trio Thumbscrew, and a tribute to Roswell Rudd from Joe Fiedler’s brass quartet Big Sackbut. Programme Website
17:00 - 18:00 Cambridge Arts Roundup
Simon Bertin and guests look at the life of television critic and poet Clive James. Programme Website
17:00 - 18:00 Polish Waves
Bringing Polish culture closer to Cambridge: a portion of news and entertainment, lavishly seasoned with specially selected music. Presented by Błażej Mikuła, Maciej Pawlikowski, Basia & Chris Hubbard, Sebastian Lesniewski and Monika Wiacek. Programme Website
18:00 - 18:30 Cambridge United: Game of the Decade
On the lead up to the football season, Ollie Slack and Tim Armitage look back at some of the greatest matches at the Abbey Stadium from the past decade, as selected by fans. Programme Website
18:30 - 19:00 The Business of Cambridge
How do you build a brand? Is it just a logo, or does it shape how we feel about an organisation? In this episode host Sue Keogh is joined by Ian James from the newly and beautifully renovated University Arms, and Sally Webster from Anglia Ruskin University, whose bold new branding is making them stand out against the competition. 4/10 Programme Website
Evening:
18:30 - 19:00 The Business of Cambridge
Sue Keogh talks to local businesses about the challenges they face. Programme Website
Evening:
19:00 - 20:00 Easy on the Ear
Judy Garland, Buddy Holly and the Ink Spots are on Tony Barnfield’s eclectic playlist, as his A to Z of Easy Listening reaches G, H and I. (Revised repeat from 16 June 2019) Programme Website
19:00 - 20:00 Easy on the Ear
Tony Barnfield invites you to trip the light fantastic with a selection of all that’s best from the world of light popular music. Programme Website
20:00 - 21:00 The Ska n B Show
Rhythm & blues, ska and mod revival/Two Tone music and chat brought to you by Alley Club Mods RevNix and Ben Phillips. Programme Website
22:00 - 23:00 Stagger
Tom Taylor, David Cunnington and Ian Shaw present the alternative music show with rap, electronica and experimental music. Programme Website
23:00 - 00:00 Opus 105
Join Sara Woo-Sam for an hour of your favourite classics and music from the movies. Programme Website
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