BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

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BBC Radio Cambridgeshire is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Cambridgeshire. It broadcasts from its studios in Cambridge on 96 (Madingley, close to the A428/A1303 junction five miles west of Cambridge) and 95.7 (Morborne, south-west of Peterborough, two miles west of the A1 near Norman Cross) FM, 1026MW (Chesterton Fen, close to the A14 and Fen Ditton north-east of Cambridge), DAB, and via its web page using Real Player. It started broadcasting on May 1st 1982.

Chris Morris started his radio career here, testing the management's level of humour.

Contents

1 Transmitters
2 Schedule
3 Naked Scientists
4 External links

Transmitters

The 95.7FM signal is by far the strongest. Unfortunately on 30th October 2004, a fire broke out (thought to be arson) 80ft up the main Peterborough mast, one mile west of Morborne, and the heat caused the whole mast to collapse. A shorter BT Group plc tower with microwave transmission dishes next to it was undamaged. The 95.7FM signal was put out of action for a few weeks, though has been reinstated. The transmitter is now fully operational. Peterborough has FM BBC national radio, BBC DAB National and Digital One. The Madingley transmitter also carries national FM BBC radio, five television, Digital One, BBC DAB National, Q103 Cambridge and Vibe FM 105-108 on 105.6FM as well as the Now Cambridge DAB multiplex. Chesterton Fen also has Virgin Radio on 1197MW. The DAB signals come from two multiplexes in Cambridgeshire - a rarity for BBC local radio stations, as some do not yet broadcast on digital. Since 30th November 2002, the NOW Digital [Peterborough 12D multiplex] has come from Peterborough (main signal), Hitchingbrooke Hospital (Huntingdon) and Stamford (in south Lincolnshire). It covers Peterborough, Huntingdon, Stamford and Spalding. Since 30th September 2004, the NOW Digital [Cambridge 11C multiplex] has come from Madingley.

Schedule

From 7 - 10am, there are two breakfast shows - Steve Riches from Cambridge and Andy Burrows from Peterborough. Other programmes include Sue Dougan from 1 - 4pm each weekday, who used to be the mainstay on the Evening Show on BBC local radio in the south. In the evening on weekdays, BBC local radio stations in the Look East area join up with Halifax-born Nick Lawrence from 7pm and Nick Risby from 10pm (Squadron Leader ex-Radio1 Keith Skues from 10pm on Mondays), who both broadcast from Norwich.

Naked Scientists

BBC Cambridgeshire is also the home of the Naked Scientists, a group of Cambridge University doctors and researchers with a passion for making science fun. They strip down science and lay the facts bare every Sunday evening, inviting listeners to call in and talk science. They are joined in the studio by a succession of guest scientists who talk about their work and take questions live from the audience. A new series of The Naked Scientists launched in October 2005. The Naked Scientists is supported by a website, [The Naked Scientists Online] which contains archived editions of their previous programmes in streamed and [podcast] formats, and currently they are in the iTunes music store top 100 podcasts, internationally. The Naked Scientists is also broadcast across the BBC East region comprising eight local BBC radio stations in the east of England. The name of the programme is a nod to Clavering's Jamie Oliver and the Naked Chef.

External links

BBC Local Radio stations
BBC Radio Berkshire	BBC Radio Bristol	BBC Radio Cambridgeshire
BBC Radio Cleveland	BBC Radio Cornwall	BBC Coventry & Warwickshire
BBC Radio Cumbria	BBC Radio Derby	BBC Radio Devon
BBC Essex	BBC Radio Gloucestershire	BBC Radio Manchester
BBC Radio Guernsey	BBC Hereford and Worcester	BBC Radio Humberside
BBC Radio Jersey	BBC Radio Kent	BBC Radio Lancashire
BBC Radio Leeds	BBC Radio Leicester	BBC Radio Lincolnshire
BBC London 94.9	BBC Radio Merseyside	BBC Radio Newcastle
BBC Radio Norfolk	BBC Radio Northampton	BBC Radio Nottingham
BBC Radio Oxford	BBC Radio Sheffield	BBC Radio Shropshire
BBC Radio Solent	BBC Somerset Sound	BBC Southern Counties Radio
BBC Radio Stoke	BBC Radio Suffolk	BBC Radio Swindon
BBC Three Counties Radio	BBC WM	BBC Radio Wiltshire
BBC Radio York

Former BBC Local Radio stations
BBC Radio Brighton	BBC Radio Bedfordshire	BBC Radio Durham
BBC GLR	BBC GMR	BBC Radio London

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