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Mayor of Cambridge, Cllr Maria Cleminson, tells Glenn Jones about the Cambridge 75th celebrations, on Jesus Green Sunday.
A pioneering Cambridge computer that helped usher in the modern computing age has been honoured with a Blue Plaque. The plaque marks the development of EDSAC, the world’s first practical […]
Residents in Cottenham are decorating their windows as part of a community-wide advent calendar. Organiser Ann Austen spoke to Glenn Jones.
Professor Lisa Jardine-Wright OBE tells Glenn Jones about the University of Cambridge’s Isaac Science platform – an initiative helping thousands of young people engage with Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths […]
Glenn finds out why over 300 Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers are descending on Cambridge for a Scavenger Hunt next weekend.
Glenn finds out how you can be a part of this year’s World Puddle Jumping Championships… And gets some tips for successful championship puddle jumping. Plus a look at what’s […]
Glenn Jones keeps you company with great music and interesting people for your Sunday Morning.
Glenn chats to Sally Collins from the Sedgwick Museum ahead of their Earth Sciences Fair.
Glenn chats to Luci, a Cambridgeshire Police call handler. Luci tells Glenn about the Pegasus scheme, a scheme designed for anyone who has a disability or illness that may make […]
Glenn talks Spring with Anna Patterson Lee from the Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
Glenn chats to Tim Cowan, an RSPB Conservation Officer, about the 40th anniversary of a project hoping to help one of our most threatened birds, in our part of the […]
Great music and interesting people, for your Sunday Morning. This week, Glenn chats to Rose Bloomfield from Rowan, ahead of an Art Exhibition with a difference, next weekend.
Glenn learns the fascinating story of a palaeontologist who local children may know better than adults, with Amy Barker from the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.
Jennifer Osuide from Anglia Ruskin University tells Glenn about a project to help long-term unemployed people in Cambridge return to the labour market through a concept called ‘reverse volunteering’. […]
Great music and interesting people for your Sunday morning. This week, Glenn chats to Alex Smaridge, Engagement and Collections Manager at the Museum of Cambridge, about a project exploring disabled […]
Glenn meets Professor Jenny Gibson, an expert in Neurodiversity and Autism at the University of Cambridge. They talk about a new project, hoping to better understand links between comics and […]
Glenn chats to the site manager of RSPB Ouse Fen and RSPB Fen Drayton Lakes nature reserves about how you can get involved in the world’s largest garden wildlife survey, […]
Great music and interesting people for your Sunday morning. This week, Glenn learns about education in Victorian Cambridge and gets confused by a washing machine.
Glenn hears from Emily Halban BEM, co founder of A Space Between, about being recognised in the New Year Honours, for services to tackling Isolation, Loneliness and Anxiety through Art. […]
This week Glenn looks back at some of the interesting people we’ve met on Sunday mornings throughout 2024. Including the local man who led the expedition to find Endurance, Shackleton’s […]
Great Music and Interesting People for your Sunday Morning. This week, Glenn chats to Sophie Barber, play specialist at Addenbrooke’s about how staff, supporters and the wider community come together […]
Great music and interesting people for your Sunday Morning. This morning Glenn chats to Kate from Cambridge City Foodbank, about their Christmas Hamper Appeal.
Great music and interesting people for your Sunday Morning. This morning Glenn chats with Kate Nation, Director and Co-Founder of Turtle Dove Cambridge, about a Young Women’s Conference that happened […]
This morning Glenn chats to Kate Nation, Director and Co Founder of Turtle Dove Cambridge, about a Young Women’s Conference that happened in Cambridge this week.
Glenn finds out why a bunch of Anglia Ruskin University students are planning on haunting Cambridge’s Guildhall.
Great music and interesting people for your Sunday Morning. This morning, Glenn hears how we can be part of bringing the festive magic to Wimpole, this year.
Great Music and Interesting People for your Sunday Morning. This week, with Bonfire Night approaching, Glenn talks Hedgehogs, with Fay Vass, from the British Hedgehog Preservation Society.
Great music and interesting people for your Sunday Morning. This week, Glenn meets Dr John Shears, the local man who led the exhibition to find Sir Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship, […]
Glenn Jones keeps you company with great music and interesting people, for your Sunday Morning. This week, Glenn chats to Dr Joshua Nall – Director of the Whipple Museum of […]
Glenn hears from the CEO of Emmaus Cambridge, after she joined an epic walk as it passed through Cambridgeshire this week, plus more on an eco festival coming to a […]
Glenn hears about Anglia Ruskin University research that suggests creative activities like arts and crafts can be as beneficial to life satisfaction as having a job. You’ll also hear more […]
Great music and interesting people for your Sunday Morning. Glenn finds out more about a load of crazy contraptions, racing around for Duxford for a good cause, next weekend.
Glenn chats to Mandy Curtis from the Cambridge Science Centre, tackling big questions like can you fry an egg on a bin lid, when the weather gets really hot, and […]
Glenn finds out about a play pavilion at the Fitzwilliam Museum this summer. You’ll also hear about a new partnership between Anglia Ruskin University and Cambridge United.
Great music and interesting people for your Sunday Morning. This week, Glenn finds out more about Play Included; based in Duxford, they train people all over the world in Lego […]
Great music and interesting people for your Sunday Morning. Glenn finds out what’s going on over the Summer Holidays, for free. Plus, is the reason Glenn never made it as […]
Great Music and Interesting People for your Sunday Morning. This morning, Glenn learns about the Hawking Archive, a collection of Professor Stephen Hawking’s scientific papers and personal correspondence, which is […]
Great music and interesting people for your Sunday Morning. This morning, Glenn hears how Crazy Golf and a Disco Den are coming to Anglesey Abbey, this summer.
Glenn meets some of the young people behind 24 hours of live music, last weekend. Plus… Can you wear a football shirt if you don’t know the first thing about […]
Glenn meets a Cambridge artist who was so inspired by Cambridge Open Studios, she decided to take part herself.
Great music and interesting people for your Sunday Morning. This week, Glenn finds out how a group of Cambridge 7 to 10 year olds managed to celebrate their 100th Birthday […]
Great music and interesting people for your Sunday Morning. This week, Glenn chats to Carrie Herbert, founder of Red Balloon Learner Centres, about the centres, and the Open Garden she’s […]
Great music and interesting people for your Sunday Morning. This week, Glenn talks 50 years of Cambridge’s Strawberry Fair, and looks ahead to this year’s event.
Glenn hears how a partnership between our Local Ambulance Trust and Fire Service is helping to get emergency medical help to people across Cambridgeshire, faster.
Great music and good company for your Sunday Morning. This week Glenn learns about a local innovation helping young people being treated at hospitals across a wider area, benefit from […]
Great music and interesting people for your Sunday Morning. Today, Glenn looks back at 70 years of Cambridge’s first Country Park.
Great Music and Interesting People for your Sunday Morning. Glenn hears from Katy Green, College Archivist at Magdalene College, where they’ve recently made the letters between the mountaineer, George Mallory […]
Glenn hears how Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service are celebrating their 50th Birthday; can a youngster in your life help them imagine what a fire engine might look like in […]
Glenn looks ahead to a party, marking 3 years of the Trumpington Kids Clothes Hub. Apparently it’s going to be ‘pants’, but in a good way! Plus Glenn gets confused […]
Glenn keeps you company with great music and interesting people for your Sunday Morning. This week, Glenn explores how people have expressed themselves through textiles, throughout history, with Beau Brannick […]
Great music and Interesting people with Glenn for your Sunday Morning. This week Glenn finds out how you can go Giraffe spotting – without leaving Cambridge – this Easter Break. […]
Great music and interesting people for your Sunday Morning. This week, Glenn buys a new vacuum cleaner with an unexpected feature and sets off on a mission to find out […]
Glenn meets the local woman, planning on running the London Marathon carrying a fridge, and finds out more about hearing dogs.
Glenn talks Mothers Day and Fostering. Plus more about the charity Ray of Sunshine and what it is about them that inspired a woman to run around Cambridge with a […]
Glenn finds out if there really is a spider receptionist checking everyone in to their Bug Hotel, with Paul Hetherington from Buglife, a look at other animals with Jobs, with […]
Good music and great company for your Sunday Morning. Glenn learns how Ancient Egyptians used to trade coffins and how disputes over them ended up in court; and celebrates success […]
Glenn Jones keeps you company with great music and interesting people for your Sunday morning. This week, the usual eclectic mix, including Rocking Chickens, Wassailing and, on a more serious […]
Glenn keeps you company with great music and interesting people. He finds out about Slow Running, and a Breast Cancer support organisation, coming to Cambridgeshire.
Glenn learns more about local charity Red2Green and a webinar they’re hosting about Autism in the workplace, and about a friendship café coming to our city.
Glenn meets Kirstie Stage this morning, who’s delving into the history of deaf and disabled people.
Glenn Jones keeps you company with great music and interesting people, for your Sunday Morning. Including a look ahead to this year’s Big Garden Birdwatch.
Glenn keeps you company with interesting people and great music for your Sunday Morning. This week, an amazing discovery in a loft at Christ’s College, a pick-your-own event for children’s […]
Great music and interesting people for your Sunday Morning. Glenn hears about a local theatre production where even the actors won’t know what’s going to happen next, and meets a […]
Glenn Jones keeps you company with great music and interesting people for New Year’s Day.
Good company and great music with Glenn Jones for your Sunday Morning. This week, how we can help those who find themselves without a place to call their own this […]
Good company and great tunes with Glenn for your Sunday Morning. This week, Glenn hears about the Junction’s festive offering, a shoebox appeal; helping families in Ukraine, while you do […]
Glenn learns more about an organisation empowering young women in our area, an initiative to help us feel safer on the streets of Cambridge, and Glenn’s starting to feel festive, […]
Glenn Jones keeps you company with great music and interesting people for your Sunday Morning.
Glenn sees an advert for a Smart Kettle in the local newspaper and – as ever – overthinks it. Plus an art exhibition in an unusual location, a celebration of […]
Glenn Jones keeps you company with great music and interesting people for your Sunday Morning. This week, Glenn gets excited about Cambridge’s transport in days gone by, with Alex from […]
Glenn Jones has a sideways look at the week. From the serious, like Feminist Artificial Intelligence, through the big questions like Why do I keep killing my houseplants? …. to […]
Why birds haven’t been visiting Glenn’s garden and the East Anglian Ambulance Service is honoured for how it treats patients with dyslexia.
Annie Davis from the Museum of Cambridge has exciting news for Glenn, the My Mini Museum project is back, for the Summer!
Glenn finds out more about (Social Inclusion Charity) Cambridge Community Arts, ahead of their Exhibition this weekend (8-9 July).
Glenn Jones heads to the Mill Road end of Gwydir Street to find out about a series of workshops at the David Parr House for adults with low vision and […]
Raucous texts – mocking kings, priests and peasants; encouraging audiences to get drunk; and shocking them with slapstick – shed new light on Britain’s famous sense of humour, and the […]
Addenbrooke’s Hospital’s has teamed up with a charity called Little Lifts, who provide boxes of gifts, treats and support to those about to start chemotherapy and radiotherapy for breast cancer. […]
Two thousand people are going to be coming together on Parker’s Piece, this Sunday, for a feast to mark the King’s Coronation. Tasmia Power’s one of the people behind it […]
Andy Cranch has set himself a mission to do 1,000 keepie-uppies at each of the 92 football league clubs, raising money for EACH as he goes. Glenn Jones reports.
Carla Keen from the Ministry of Unplanned Occurrences, tells Glenn about a show next week, where even the actors don’t know what’s going to happen next.
Glenn Jones learns about Cambridge-based Play Included’s Brick-by-Brick programme, developed using the latest research on neurodiversity and learning through play. He speaks to founder Dr Gina Gómez de la Cuesta.
Tracy Grant from the Cambridgeshire DofE Open Award Centre, reflects on a Royal Visitor, earlier this week.
The Arthur Rank Hospice Charity is appealing to the community to help in their bid to smash their 300 team target for this year’s Chariots of Fire anniversary event. Donna […]
‘My bag is packed all of the time, and ready to go at short notice’. Deborah Swann, an emergency department nurse based at who was deployed to Turkey with the […]
A Dry Drayton gym has found a novel way to raise funds for people affected by the Earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Simon Goswell from Full Circle Fitness spoke to […]
Work by pupils at the Castle School in Cambridge was on display at Kettles Yard on Thursday as part of their Twilight at the Museums event. It was created as […]
A music teacher at Kings College School has recreated Kings College Chapel… Out of Gingerbread! Alice Harper baked the edible architecture as part of an annual creativity competition, as she […]
The team behind the Cows about Cambridge Sculpture trail are returning to the city, next year. Wild in Art is teaming up with the charity, Break for a brand new […]
Dr Hannah Cubaynes from the British Antarctic Survey tells Glenn how you can become a ‘Walrus Detective’.
Glenn Jones speaks to Dr Sujit Bhattacharya from Cambourne Electronics and Robotics Club (CERC), crowned as the winners of the FIRST LEGO League Champions Award securing them a space at the […]
Annie Davis tells Glenn why the Museum Of Cambridge is inviting you to create your very own Mini Museum
This weekend is your last chance to sign up for the Arthur Rank Hospice Charity’s Tree Recycling Scheme Carolyn Start, from the Charity told Glenn, it’s already a record-breaking year
Glenn hears from Anglia Ruskin PhD student Nurbanu Somani who explains what happens when we hear festive music.
Melody Brooker from Wintercomfort tells Glenn Jones how we can help people who find themselves homeless, or vulnerably housed in this awful weather
Dr Caglar Akcay, Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Ecology at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) tells Glenn how pollution is making Robins more aggressive.
An avenue of trees at Wandlebury Country Park has been turned into a giant art Gallery, with various huge art works, hung amongst the trees. Ruth Sapsed from Cambridge Curiosity and […]
Glenn Jones speaks to Cambridge City Council Community Safety Manager Keryn, who has raised £3,500 for Street Aid Weekby shaving her hair and to Sarah who helped set up the […]
Glenn Jones chats to Sophie Barber, a Health Play Specialist at Addenbrooke’s about her role. And about the importance of bears.
Mike Smith from the Rotary Club of Cambridge South tells Glenn about this Sunday’s Homeless Football tournament.
The Museum of Cambridge has received a donation of £25,000 from a local donor to develop and expand its crowd-sourced local history website, Capturing Cambridge. Annie Davis Development manager at […]
Joe Sagoe tells Glenn about the 16th Cambridge Dragon Boat Festival taking place on the River Cam at Fen Ditton on September 10th.
Katherine Mann, co-creator of mischievous cats Fitz & Will tells Glenn Jones about their new guide to Cambridge in aid of East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices.
Glenn Jones hears about Camcyle’s celebration of the Chisholm Trail and Jim Chisholm, whose vision led to the cycle route.
Glenn finds out how you can travel across the solar system without leaving the City and South Cambs.
Martin Millard from Cheffins tells Glenn Jones about the 75 year old slice of cake they’re auctioning, from the Queen’s wedding
Glenn Jones speaks to Mandy Curtis from Cambridge Science Centre about Saturday’s Space Ranger Day, celebrating the launch of the new movie, Lightyear.
Highlights from Glenn’s Friday afternoon show commemorating The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Jodie Vaughan from Arthur Rank Hospice Charity tells Glenn about last weekend’s Star Shine Walk.
Glenn Jones hears about this year’s Each Ride for Life – a three-day cycle across the East in aid of Each hospices – from Henry, who was one of the […]
Glenn catches up with Alison Knowles, the Cambridge-based emotional therapist behind Ollie and His Superpowers, who’s just back from Poland where she’s working with people from Ukraine.
Glenn Jones chats to Gregoire Hodder, who’s been working with the Cambridgeshire Clinical Commissioning Group, to help put young minds at ease, ahead of their jabs.
Abi Abdel al tells Glenn about the work of the Sick Childrens Trust at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge.
A campaign to save Bourn Windmill in South Cambridgeshire has won the backing of architect Norman Foster. Glenn speaks to James Littlewood from Cambridge Past, Present and Future.
Glenn hears from Emmy of the Grain and Hop Store in Cambridge, which will be battling it out with a rival pub in Oxford to be crowned Boat Race champion, all whilst raising money […]
Glenn gets an update following the sponsored 24-Hour Musicathon with 100 students from the Cambridge Cluster of United Learning Schools (Coleridge Community College, Parkside Community College and Trumpington Community College).
Cambridgeshire Emotional Therapist Alison Knowles tells Glenn about the concept behind Ollie and his Super Powers.
Glenn hears from Charlotte Connelly, Museum Curator at the Polar Museum on the story of Sir Ernest Shackleton and the work of the Scott Polar Research Institute.
Glenn Jones hears from Todd Mackintosh of Bare Necessities, the charity which provides Underwear for the Homeless.
Outrun an Ambulance’ is a virtual challenge inviting people to exceed the mileage an ambulance covers on an average 12-hour shift while responding to people in need. Glenn Jones finds […]
Cambridge 105 Radio rock presenter Neil Jones pays tribute to singer Meatloaf – who has died at the age of 74.
Ed Wombwell from Cambridge Past, Present & Future tells Glenn about Volunteer Work Parties.
Local children are contributing to the design of the new Cambridge children’s hospital that’s being built on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. Tamsin Ford CBE, a professor of childhood and adolescent […]
If you’ve passed by Parker’s Piece, you can’t help but notice the return of the North Pole Ice Rink, along with the big wheel that made its first appearance in […]
Louise Clover from Cambridgeshire Scouts tells Glenn Jones how you can become a squirrel