Schedule

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26 Dec Mon
27 Dec Tue
28 Dec Wed
29 Dec Thu
30 Dec Fri
31 Dec Sat
01 Jan Sun
02 Jan Mon
03 Jan Tue
04 Jan Wed
05 Jan Thu
06 Jan Fri
07 Jan Sat
08 Jan Sun
09 Jan

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 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