Cambridge Breakfast

The Cambridgeshire Fens are facing threats from climate change, the availability of water, and the peat soil becoming exhausted and emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Julian hears from Dr Laurie Friday and Tom Marquand, who are leading a Cambridge Festival session next month.

Julian visits Maggie’s at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, where he meets Caz Randell, who’s living with Clear Cell Carcinoma, and Professor James Brenton, clinician-scientist and Senior Group Leader at Cancer Research UK.

Caz has set up a support group and is raising money for Cancer Research with a series of T-shirts. You can visit the fundraising page here.

Councillor Alex Collis explains the decision to end the annual Big Weekend. In conversation with Julian Clover, she also discusses the weekend's march against the Congestion Charge.

Friday (February 24) marked one year since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Anatolii Pavlovskyi, a co-founder of Cambridge4Ukraine, is in the studio with Julian Clover.

 

Major rail projects to improve railway infrastructure around Cambridgeshire are to be carried out between Saturday 11 March and the late May bank holiday. Julian Clover speaks to Stephen Deaville from Network Rail which is running the work.

Tesco's become the fourth supermarket giant to start rationing tomatoes. Customers will also face limits on purchases of peppers and cucumbers - after Asda, Morrisons and Aldi took similar steps. But will our independent suppliers face the same issues? And what for the future of our food security? Julian speaks to Neil Bharadwa from the Cambridge Fruit Company and David Rose, Professor of Sustainable Agricultural Systems at Cranfield University.

Samaritans wants us to intervene when we see someone who might be struggling with suicidal thoughts. The charity is launching a campaign to encourage people to strike up a conversation with a stranger if they're worried about them. Julian spoke to Becky Harris, Cambridge Regional Development Lead at Samaritans.

Martin Hunt from St John’s Players is on the show to talk about new production Gaslight.

The Cambridge Festival programme launches in full today and David Cain is in the studio with all the details.

Nancy Bostock, Consultant Paediatrician at The Croft Child and Family Unit tells Julian about the new Cambridge Children’s Hospital.