Cambridge Arts Round-up

Simon Bertin presents highlights from the spring Cambridge Literary Festival, including interviews with Samira Ahmed and Sophie Raworth on their new books, plus poetry from Harry Baker’s Tender. Also, multimedia […]

Simon Bertin meets acclaimed sculptor Harry Gray, discovering why his bold figurative style keeps winning him high-profile commissions for standout public artworks. Also on the programme, Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri – […]

Simon Bertin meets the directors of Infusion Physical Theatre Dance Company to explore Soothe: Dance and Brain Chemistry, a performance blending movement with the science of the mind. Plus, backstage […]

Royal portrait artist Dan Llywellyn Hall introduces a new exhibition, Armor Arborum: Trees in Heritage and Protest, exploring our relationship with significant and sometimes contentious trees. There’s also a visit […]

Simon Bertin visits the Cambridge Arts Theatre where CEO Rachel Tackley gives an update on the theatre’s redevelopment project; we drop in on artist Naomi Tomkyss OBE who is exhibiting […]

In Cambridge Arts Roundup, Simon Bertin joins Cambridge University’s Dr Marina Velez Vago on a visit to the Archaeology and Anthropology Museum; the qualities of Ghost stories written by women […]

Simon Bertin encounters sculptor Ian Wolter at his new exhibition Perfection: Exploring Perfection in the Human Condition at the Wightman gallery; the philosophical issues of artificial intelligence and art with […]

Simon Bertin drops in to Clare College to find out about a tapestry that centres on the career of scientist and suffragette Hertha Ayrton; we wrestle with the current political […]

Simon Bertin visits Katrina Porteous at Magdalene College who’s new book Rhizodont is shortlisted for the T.S Eliot prize; and we hear the spiritual aspects of sculptural work from Zimbabwe […]

Simon Bertin goes on a tour of the Fitzwilliam Museum and talks to artist Glenn Ligon on his thought-provoking show All over the Place. We sample some new poem recitals […]

Simon Bertin visits the curators of the Paris 1924 Sport, Art and the Body exhibition celebrating the 1924 Olympics at the Fitzwilliam museum. He also encounters medieval historian Katie Hawks […]

Simon Bertin visits Dr Alex Carter at Fitzwilliam College to hear about the philosophy of creativity and humour and the problems it raises; we encounter artist, musician, and short filmmaker […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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; […]

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; […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]