Cambridge Arts Roundup

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Simon Bertin presents the programme that explores the city’s arts scene.

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Cambridge Arts Roundup episodes:

05.12.2024
Cambridge Arts Roundup: Blake’s Universe
Simon Bertin visits the Blake’s Universe exhibition at the Fitzwilliam museum and interviews co-curator Professor David Bindman on reframing Blake; We take a look at Murder By the Book A […]
10.22.2023
Real Families: Stories of Change
Simon Bertin visits the new Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition that asks us to consider what makes a family today, and the impact our families have on us, through the eyes of […]
08.20.2023
Cambridge Arts Roundup 20/08/2023
Simon Bertin looks at Mary Shelley’s 1818 edition of Frankenstein with Clare College fellow Patricia Fara and discovers a comparable creature that modern technology might realise in the form of […]
05.07.2023
Cambridge Arts Roundup: Raymond Briggs Retrospective
Simon Bertin previews the Raymond Briggs retrospective at Cambridge University Library and hears of an extraordinary artist who captivated a whole generation of children with curator Katie McCurrach; We investigate […]
04.09.2023
Cambridge Arts Roundup: The Parthenon Marbles and the Fitzwilliam
Simon Bertin invites Classics Professor Paul Cartledge to talk on the Parthenon marbles and secret talks over returning them to Greece that may eventually impact on the Fitzwilliam Museum; exhibition […]
09.18.2022
Cambridge Arts Roundup: Mina Gorji
Simon Bertin visits poet Mina Gorji who talks on her work and her new anthology; Kinaesthetic artist Chris Dobrowolski talks on his often-large scale installations and on having imposter syndrome […]
07.15.2022
Cambridge Arts Roundup 10/07/2022
Simon Bertin previews the Cambridge Shakespeare festival with Artistic Director Dr David Crilly; He encounters the gorgon Medusa in a good mood at Artist sculptor Mel Fraser’s studios in Wilburton; […]
07.15.2022
Cambridge Arts Roundup 29/05/2022
Simon Bertin gets immersed in the Space Sounds project with multimedia artist Diana Scarborough and space weather scientist Dr Nigel Meredith of the British Antarctic Survey with composer Kim Cunio; […]
04.17.2022
Cambridge Arts Roundup 17/04/2022
Simon Bertin grapples with Geometry in art and space with Cambridge University mathematical physics professor Maciej Dunajski; He interviews exciting women artists in an all female Exhibition at Extraordinary Objects […]
03.20.2022
Cambridge Arts Roundup 20/03/2022
Simon Bertin encounters the Art of the Samurai at Cambridge University Library’s Samurai History and Legend Exhibition; award-winning author Patricia Fara talks about her book on electricity in the enlightenment […]
01.16.2022
Cambridge Arts Roundup 16/01/2022
In this edition, Simon Bertin hears from Cambridge University scientific historian Patricia Fara about her new book on the life of Cambridge icon Sir Isaac Newton. Her husband, poet Clive […]
10.18.2021
Cambridge Arts Roundup 17/10/2021
Simon Bertin delves into a remarkable photography exhibition by Robert McCabe on an archaeological dig in Mycenae; Artist Sudesh Prasad explores the relationship between art and the viewer at the […]
09.02.2021
Cambridge Arts Roundup 22/08/2021
Simon Bertin discovers the remarkable artwork of Gurpran Rau using the encaustic method from the ancient world at Artspace 57 with curator Anna Dempster in an exhibition entitled Under the […]
05.30.2021
Clive James – Cambridge Arts Roundup
In this edition Simon Bertin joins Guardian, Observer and Cambridge Critique journalist Anne Garvey and film business enabler Phil Day to pay tribute to the career of television critic and […]
11.01.2020
Cambridge Arts Roundup 31/10/2020
As Spitting Image returns, Cambridge-based political cartoonist for the Telegraph Andy Davey reflects on satire in troubled times. We discover the unpublished letters of Siegfried Sassoon from the Cambridge University Archives and […]
08.27.2020
New Music Generator: Dan Bond
Dan joins Tim for a live session ahead of the release of his new single Pick Me Up. There’s brand new music in the first half hour from Stretch Soul Gang, Lauren Alex Hooper, Soy and Sleemo and the latest...
05.10.2020
Cambridge Arts Roundup 09/05/2020
In this episode Simon Bertin and journalist Anne Garvey take a look at the topical history and delights of Cambridge’s Mill Road Cemetery and recite poetry from the sculptural art […]
04.04.2020
Cambridge Arts Roundup 04/04/2020
In this programme: award winning artist and coastal ecologist Vincent Hyland takes us beneath the waves with his marine and environmental work in Derrynane Ireland; Cambridge Artist Heloise Toop talks […]
03.09.2020
Cambridge Arts Roundup: Cambridge Arts Network
Simon Bertin gets immersed in the Cambridge Arts Network 2020 Conference and encounters an epic children’s story teller in Jannina Vigus, Digital Artist Lee Mason demonstrating Digital Art tools, founders […]
06.17.2018
Arts Round Up 16/06/2018
In this episode Simon Bertin visits the talent at Cambridge School of Art Fine Art Degree show; hears about the threat to CB2 Cafe in Norfolk street’s live music and […]
05.06.2018
Arts Round Up: Children of Calais & Art Hound Gallery
Simon Bertin introduces the monthly arts show. In this episode sculptor Ian Wolter talks about his new public artwork Children of Calais and the art of creating debate on societal […]
04.08.2018
Arts Round Up 07/04/2018
In this episode we look at talented young musicians and how funding cuts might affect opportunities for the local stars of the future; We go to the Cambridge Arts Network […]
03.04.2018
Arts Round Up: Art of Float, Oggie Tomic and Lady Sybil
In this edition Simon Bertin is immersed in a flotation tank at Art of Float and encounters artist Kay Goodridge at a venue with a creative difference; Cambridge Film Maker […]
02.04.2018
Arts Round Up: Kettle’s Yard, Political Cartoons & e-Luminate
In this edition we visit Penny Heath with the Friends of Kettle’s Yard to hear about the new gallery rebuild project opening next week; Political cartoonist Andy Davey talks about […]
01.08.2018
Arts Round Up: Edgar Degas Passion for Perfection
Simon Bertin drops into the Fitzwilliam Museum to visit curator of the Edgar Degas Passion for Perfection exhibition Jane Munroe; We hear about Art Language Location’s anniversary and plans for […]
06.04.2014
Arts Round-Up 31/05/2014
In this month’s Arts Round Up Simon Bertin talks to Dr Mark Eliot curator of the exhibition The Buddah’s Word the life of books in Tibet and Beyond at the […]
04.29.2014
Arts Round-Up 26/04/2014
Simon Bertin visits artist Nicola Powys exhibiting at Williams Art; hears about crime writing with Cambridge author Jill Paton Walsh; talks to Lucy Alexander on running Creative Cabaret at the […]
04.02.2014
Arts Round-Up 29/03/2014
Simon Bertin presents the TAPA Barkcloths from the Pacific Exhibition at the Museum Of Archaeology and Anthropology; A book review of a Biography on war time heroine and SOE secret […]
02.23.2014
Arts Round-Up 22/02/2014
Simon Bertin takes a look at a selection of arts projects & events in Cambridge. This month an interview with the niece of film superstar Richard Burton, (Sue Rogers), on […]
01.20.2014
Arts Round up: E-luminate, Axel Brangert & Afternoon Tease
In this edition we preview Twilight at the museums; Take look at E-luminate festival of light with Alessandra Caggiano; Cambridge film maker Axel Brangert appeals for actors; We discuss art […]
01.20.2014
Arts Round up: E-luminate, Axel Brangert & Afternoon Tease
In this edition we preview Twilight at the museums; Take look at E-luminate festival of light with Alessandra Caggiano; Cambridge film maker Axel Brangert appeals for actors; We discuss art for Autism; and Visit Afternoon Tease cafe to hear about...
12.29.2013
Arts Round-Up 21/12/2013
In this edition we visit budding actors at the new premises of Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Art, talk to royal portrait artist Dan Llywellyn Hall, find out about […]
12.29.2013
Arts Round-Up 21/12/2013
In this edition we visit budding actors at the new premises of Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Art, talk to royal portrait artist Dan Llywellyn Hall, find out about Deanna Tyson’s Kimono’s with a political message on the darker...
12.04.2013
Arts Round-Up 23/11/2013
Simon Bertin takes a look at a selection of arts projects & events in Cambridge. In this edition we look at film making with Neuf Film Consortium, get to grips […]
12.04.2013
Arts Round-Up 23/11/2013
Simon Bertin takes a look at a selection of arts projects & events in Cambridge. In this edition we look at film making with Neuf Film Consortium, get to grips with arts, music and dance from the Persian book of...
10.30.2013
Arts Round-Up 26/10/2013
Simon Bertin takes a skate across the tiles of Cambridge to discover an artist’s gallery that’s inside a car, how the city’s exotic plant life can take us in new […]
10.30.2013
Arts Round-Up 26/10/2013
Simon Bertin takes a skate across the tiles of Cambridge to discover an artist’s gallery that’s inside a car, how the city’s exotic plant life can take us in new directions, gather up some untold stories of remembrance and get...
10.01.2013
Arts Round-Up 28/09/2013
In this edition Simon Bertin visits artist Chloe Leaper working in an ice cube sculpture studio in Norfolk Street; Investigate a new internet hub Art Language Location; deal in the […]
10.01.2013
Arts Round-Up 28/09/2013
In this edition Simon Bertin visits artist Chloe Leaper working in an ice cube sculpture studio in Norfolk Street; Investigate a new internet hub Art Language Location; deal in the best of the region’s garden sculpture the rain; hear about...
09.03.2013
Arts Round-Up 31/08/2013
In this edition we get a run down on the forthcoming Cambridge Film Festival with Emily Boldy; We discover living art that is also clothing with painter and designer Brenda Mayo; and review a heart-wrenching new play on wartime child...
08.07.2013
Arts Round-Up 03/08/2013
Simon Bertin with the monthly Cambridge culture review. In this edition we investigate a motley gang of robots with attitude in King Street with scrap artist Giles Walker; Get a rundown on the Romsey Arts Festival and tune in to tune...
07.08.2013
Arts Round-Up 06/07/2013
In this edition we talk about the history of Cambridge spies with writer and historian Christopher Catherwood in his new book 'The Cuckoo's Nest 500 years of Cambridge Spies'; Discuss Art and Dyslexia with Consultant Psychologist Dr Beverly Steffert; Visit artists...
03.20.2013
Arts Round-Up 16/03/2013
In this edition; we review the E-Luminate Festival of Light, engage with living coloured squares with artist Adrian Parnell at the Lynne Strover Gallery; look at a smart phone app with for enjoying sculptures with Cambridge Sculpture Trials; visit Outpost’s...
02.18.2013
Arts Round-Up 16/02/2013
In this edition we visit the new contemporary Concanenda choir at Sidney Sussex College and hear from director Alexandra Schwinn about a new album and debut concert planned for the summer, Wysing arts presents residency exhibition Relatively Absolute, Austrian artist...
01.20.2013
Arts Round-Up 19/01/2013
In this edition; we sample the intelligent ravishes of Aid and Abet's artists exhibiting at Kettle Yard, investigate ghostly goings-on at the Leper chapel with story teller Robert Lloyd Parry, visit Caroline Amory at Whitehouse Arts on Strourbridge common and preview the...
12.18.2012
Arts Round-Up 15/12/2012
In this edition we visit the Open College of Art's poetry workshop at Darwin college, investigate comedy nights with the Twisted Willow theatre, talk to the authors at Askance publishing, interview a Bosnian film maker and take a gallery tour...

What's Cambridge Arts Roundup about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Cambridge Arts Roundup episodes:

Cambridge Arts Roundup: Blake’s Universe

Real Families: Stories of Change

Cambridge Arts Roundup 20/08/2023

Cambridge Arts Roundup: Raymond Briggs Retrospective

Cambridge Arts Roundup: The Parthenon Marbles and the Fitzwilliam

Cambridge Arts Roundup: Mina Gorji

Cambridge Arts Roundup 10/07/2022

Cambridge Arts Roundup 29/05/2022

Cambridge Arts Roundup 17/04/2022

Cambridge Arts Roundup 20/03/2022

Cambridge Arts Roundup 16/01/2022

Cambridge Arts Roundup 17/10/2021

Cambridge Arts Roundup 22/08/2021

Clive James – Cambridge Arts Roundup

Cambridge Arts Roundup 31/10/2020

New Music Generator: Dan Bond

Cambridge Arts Roundup 09/05/2020

Cambridge Arts Roundup 04/04/2020

Cambridge Arts Roundup: Cambridge Arts Network

Arts Round Up 16/06/2018

Arts Round Up: Children of Calais & Art Hound Gallery

Arts Round Up 07/04/2018

Arts Round Up: Art of Float, Oggie Tomic and Lady Sybil

Arts Round Up: Kettle’s Yard, Political Cartoons & e-Luminate

Arts Round Up: Edgar Degas Passion for Perfection

Arts Round-Up 31/05/2014

Arts Round-Up 26/04/2014

Arts Round-Up 29/03/2014

Arts Round-Up 22/02/2014

Arts Round up: E-luminate, Axel Brangert & Afternoon Tease

Arts Round up: E-luminate, Axel Brangert & Afternoon Tease

Arts Round-Up 21/12/2013

Arts Round-Up 21/12/2013

Arts Round-Up 23/11/2013

Arts Round-Up 23/11/2013

Arts Round-Up 26/10/2013

Arts Round-Up 26/10/2013

Arts Round-Up 28/09/2013

Arts Round-Up 28/09/2013

Arts Round-Up 31/08/2013

Arts Round-Up 03/08/2013

Arts Round-Up 06/07/2013

Arts Round-Up 16/03/2013

Arts Round-Up 16/02/2013

Arts Round-Up 19/01/2013

Arts Round-Up 15/12/2012