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 solving the ‘Musical Maths’? Programme Website
08:00 - 10:00 John Gannon's Christmas 60s Scene
John Gannon presents a seasonal selection of 60s sounds, including tracks by The Beatles, Connie Francis, Jackie Edwards, PJ Proby, The Troggs, The Honeycombs and more besides, with just about every other track having a 60s festive flavour to get your Christmas off to a 'Swinging' start. Programme Website
10:00 - 11:00 Women Making WavesListen Again
Linda Ness and Suzie Thorpe speak to Christine O’Reilly who helps struggling families ensure that their children get to school. And Sonal Kadchha on setting up a girls school in the Maasai Mara, protecting the children from FGM and childhood marriage. Programme Website
11:00 - 12:00 Christmas BookmarkListen Again
Leigh Chambers welcomes Cathy Moore, Director of the Cambridge Literary Festival, as the featured guest on this special edition. She’ll be talking about founding the Festival, running it through the pandemic and naming some of her all-time favourite books, as well as choosing some great music. Programme Website
Afternoon:
12:00 - 13:00 Impact!
The Headway Cambridgeshire Research Group is comprised entirely of people with a brain injury. This programme follows them as they learn more about how soldiers with head and brain injuries were treated in the first world war. Leigh Chambers' programme won Bronze at the Community Radio Awards 2020. 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
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
13:00 - 14:00 From the Terraces
The weekly football show by the fans, for the fans. Tim Armitage wraps up Saturday's action involving Cambridge United, Cambridge City and Histon, plus previewing the local women's fixtures. Programme Website
14:00 - 15:00 Flavour
Matt Bentman, Alan Alder and Sue Bailey look forward to Christmas and hear from lots of local people as well as chefs and writers about what they'll be eating. We have a history of the Brussels sprout and recipes for them from Rosie Sykes. Also, David Underwood of Orriss and Son talks about how their new sauces can spice up your meal and we get wine recommendations from Tom Lewis and have a huge amount of local food news to savour. (R) Programme Website
15:00 - 17:00 Classical Cambridge
Tony Barnfield reflects on how the classical music world has come to terms with the Covid-19 pandemic, with guests including Ben Palmer, composer of The Fitbit Stress Symphony, using data insights into stress from this year, ted’s list founder Robert Emery, Oliver Condy, Editor of BBC Music magazine, and Cambridge alumnus John Challenger, now Assistant Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral. Plus seasonal surprises from young Cambridge pianist Jacky Zhang and Girton Undergraduate Kevin Loh on guitar. Tony won Gold in the Community Radio Awards as Sage Person [Over 60] of the Year. Programme Website
15:00 - 17:00 Classical Cambridge
Tony Barnfield presents Cambridge 105 Radio's fortnightly programme for classical music enthusiasts. 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 at Christmas
On the Christmas edition of Polish Waves, all seven presenters – Basia, Monika, Kasia, Błażej, Chris, Maciej and Sebastian – reflect on 2020, discuss their favourite Polish Christmas traditions and present songs that they selected specially for the occasion. Programme Website
18:00 - 19:00 Roundabout with Tony Barnfield
Tony meets Belfast-born Kathy Clugston, former BBC Radio 4 announcer and now first female host of the long-running Gardeners’ Question Time. She discusses some of the challenges broadcasters face during the Covid-19 pandemic and her hectic freelance career which embraces music, drama and writing A Brief History of Tim (The world minus one letter). Tony won Gold in the Community Radio Awards as Sage Person [Over 60] of the Year. Programme Website
Evening:
18:00 - 19:00 Roundabout with Tony Barnfield
The weekly magazine programme featuring the arts, entertainment and the world about us, presented by Tony Barnfield.
Programme Website
Evening:
19:00 - 20:00 The Big Band Show
John Hammond presents a selection of big band greats, including the vocals and music of American composer and pianist John Tesh with his Big Band and tracks from Jamie Cullum's first ever Christmas album The Piano Man at Christmas. Programme Website
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
Join Jackie Bond for a selection of seasonal Christmas rock’n’roll platters featuring the Miracles, Darlene Love, Chuck Berry and Mabel Scott, among others. 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 Evening Under Lamplight
The days are getting shorter, the nights longer. Robert-Louis Abrahamson attends to the theme of darkness, which is not all that dark when you come down to it, with Jimmy Cliff, Steeleye Span, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and others, including, for a seasonal flavour, some carols from the Miracles and the Bach Choir. You are invited to attend. Programme Website
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