Cambridge Minds

Trevor Dann meets the BBC's former diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall who’s now the Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge University’s oldest college. One of the UK’s most distinguished reporters talks about reporting from Moscow, interviewing Putin, fake news, social networks and the future of journalism.

When Cambridge psychologist Dr Sander van der Linden announced that people might be immunised against fake news, he found himself making the news. Trevor Dann hears more about his award-winning research and his Cambridge Social Decision Making Lab.

Trevor Dann meets Professor Chris Young, deputy head of the University of Cambridge’s School of Arts & Humanities. Chris specialises in the study of medieval German literature and culture, but he’s also written extensively about German sport. Perhaps he knows why the Germans always win on penalties.

Trevor Dann returns with the programme where we meet some of the brains who make our city one of the great intellectual capitals of the world. In this edition Steve McCauley, from University of Cambridge's Centre For Rising Powers helping political leaders to find imaginative new ways to tackle world problems.

Trevor Dann returns with the programme where we meet some of the brains who make our city one of the great intellectual capitals of the world. In the first show Dr Carolin Crawford, public astronomer at Cambridge University’s Institute of Astronomy.

Trevor Dann meets two more of Cambridge’s thinkers. Trish Sheil from the Arts Picturehouse is Education Officer for the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium and a guest lecturer in film studies at Anglia Ruskin University. Art historian Rupert Featherstone is director of the Hamilton Kerr Institute, assistant director of conservation for the Fitzwilliam Museum and a regular face on BBC TV’s Fake or Fortune.

Trevor Dann interviews some of the university city’s brightest stars. In this edition Jem Davies, Technology VP and Fellow at ARM and Andy Salmon, Deputy Dean for Partnerships & Enterprise at Anglia Ruskin University. Jem talks about how a firm based in Cambridge has become market dominant in smartphones and tablets worldwide and about his passion for gliding. In an eventful teaching career Andy was held at gunpoint in Los Angeles and also taught in Africa. He is an expert on the works of Henry Green, a 20th century modernist writer.

Trevor Dann’s guests are Nicky Padfield, senior lecturer in Cambridge University’s Law Faculty, former barrister and a judge, now the Master of Fitzwilliam College; and Bill Thompson, digital technology journalist, broadcaster, pundit, philosopher and consultant.

Trevor Dann meets two more of our city’s great thinkers. American-born Jim Secord heads up Cambridge University’s Department of History & Philosophy of Science where he specialises in nineteenth century scientists. He’s also the leader of the Darwin Project which is publishing all of Charles Darwin’s letters online. Back in the 21st century, David Tong is Cambridge’s answer to Brian Cox. He’s a professor of theoretical physics and spends his time wondering about quarks and black holes and trying to show where Newton and Einstein got things wrong.

Award-winning broadcaster Trevor Dann presents a new series for Cambridge 105 in which he interviews some of the university city’s brightest stars. The first edition features statistician Sir David John Spiegelhalter, OBE FRS and Master of Selwyn College Roger Mosey.