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 presents another selection of music from the decade of the 1960s. Programme Website
10:00 - 11:00 Women Making Waves
To honour Veganuary Linda Ness & Suzie Thorpe hear the story behind the CEO of vegan restaurant Stem and Glory, Louise Palmer-Masterton, and representing wine the founders of Bubbly Bandits Ltd Gaby Reniero and Annabel Jones. Programme Website
11:00 - 12:00 Bookmark
Leigh's featured guest is Chris Whitaker who will be talking about his novel We Begin At The End, currently being adapted for TV by Disney. Sue Burge discusses her new poetry collection, Confetti Dancers. Madeline Dewhurst chats about her debut novel, Charity. Programme Website
Afternoon:
12:00 - 13:00 Honoured!
Tony Barnfield meets some of the local people whose achievements were rewarded in the New Year Honours 2022, including newly-Knighted William Russell, CBEs Mark Lloyd and Professor James Diggle and OBEs Frank Butterfill and Dr Ruth March. Programme Website
13:00 - 14:00 From the Terraces
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 - 16:00 New Year Supplement with Tony Barnfield
This year is expected to continue a run of the World’s warmest years, as Tony hears from Grahame Madge of the Met Office. Plus a look back on 2021, in conversation with the Revd. Michael Beckett, who retired in September after over 30 years as Vicar of St Paul’s Church, Gonville and Caius undergraduate Tabitha Rubens on her BBC Young Writers’ Award-winning short story “Super-Powder”, and Cambridge alumni Helen Charlston and Michael Craddock on their Isolation Songbook. Programme Website
16:00 - 17:00 Jazz Today
Pete Butchers samples an upcoming album from saxophonist Emile Parisien, a tribute to Gato Barbieri from pianist Giovanni Guidi, the music of Ze Renato performed by the duo of Anat Cohen and Marcello Goncalves and the quartet The Multiverse recorded live in Reykjavik. Plus a run through the jazz gigs coming up in and around Cambridge. 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 - 19:00 Cambridge Film Show
Yozzie Osman and reviewers give their pick of the best films of 2021. Programme Website
Evening:
19:00 - 20:00 The Big Band Show
In his first show of 2022 John Hammondfeatures music from Don Ellis, Gordon Goodwin, Buddy Rich, Callum Au and BobCurnow.
Programme Website
20:00 - 21:00 Let The Good Times Roll
Jackie Bond presents the best rock 'n' roll from the 1950s through to the bands keeping the music alive today. Programme Website
21:00 - 22:00 Club Global
DJ Skunk presents a World Dancefloor mix with tracks from Ghana, Turkey, Jamaica, New York, the Netherlands, UK, and the Balearic Islands. 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 brings out a show from the archives, attending to the theme of Threshold, here at the threshold of the new year, with music from The Drifters, the Incredible String Band, Jefferson Airplane, Emma Chapourian, and Bob Dylan, moving from the Threshold experience to the Threshold myths. Programme Website
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