Arts Round Up

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 McCurrock; 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 on creating her special brand of striking portraits; We visit the This Changes Everything exhibition with artist Sarah Strachan from Cambridge school of Art: And […]

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 of portal Create Britain Richard Woods and Jeremy Aird, Creative Diversity Network’s Director Deborah Williams and Artists Eleanor Breeze and Denice Kehoe from Motion Sickness […]

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 performance licence; talks about painting the world within and Open Studio’s with Artist Charlotte Cornish; and visits Artist Kato Catling to get his take on […]

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 issues with artworks; Natasha Dawn, director of the Art Hound Gallery in Burwash Manor in Barton, previews a pop up exhibition featuring street and urban […]