Topic description and stories

Submissions open for BBC National Short Story Award and BBC Young Writers’ Award with Cambridge University

15 Jan 2021

Novelist James Runcie and broadcaster Katie Thistleton will chair the judging panels for the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award and BBC Young...

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2018 winner Ingrid Persaud accepts her award at the West Road ceremony earlier this year.

Submissions open for BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University

13 Dec 2018

Booker Prize shortlistee Daisy Johnson and beatboxer Testament have today been announced as judges of the BBC’s National Short Story Award and Young...

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Abandoned Liszt opera finally brought to life - 170 years later

07 Mar 2017

An Italian opera by Franz Liszt – which lay incomplete and largely forgotten in a German archive for nearly two centuries – will be given its world...

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The Naked Scientists

Naked Scientists return to the radio this Sunday

12 Jan 2013

Following successful negotiations with the BBC, the University’s Naked Scientists will be taking to the Cambridgeshire airwaves again at 6pm on...

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