Articles about 'BBC'

Photo of Sir David Attenborough on a visit to Cambridge Conservation Research Initiative

Sir David Attenborough's 'joy' on visit to Cambridge Conservation Initiative

27 September 2024

Sir David Attenborough spoke of how he feels during visits to the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) when he stopped by the CCI conservation campus at the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge this week.

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

15 January 2021

Novelist James Runcie��Ի� broadcaster Katie Thistleton will chair the judging panels for the 2021 and with Cambridge ̽��ֱ��, and submissions are now open.

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 ̽��ֱ��

13 December 2018

Booker Prize shortlistee Daisy Johnson and beatboxer Testament have today been announced as judges of the BBC’s ��Ի� with Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� and First Story – as submissions for the 2019 competitions open.

Cambridge ceremony reveals the winners of BBC Short Story and Young Writers’ Awards

02 October 2018

Trinidadian writer Ingrid Persaud, has won the thirteenth BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge ̽��ֱ�� for ‘ ̽��ֱ��Sweet Sop’, her first short story about a young Trinidadian man reunited with his absent father via the power of chocolate.

Faculty of English on the ̽��ֱ��'s Sidgwick Site, home to many of the faculties and departments from the School of Arts and Humanities.

Funding announced for almost 400 new doctoral places in arts and humanities

15 August 2018

̽��ֱ��Open ̽��ֱ��, the ̽��ֱ�� of Oxford and the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge are pleased to announce the success of their bid for funding for the Open-Oxford-Cambridge Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Training Partnership, which will create nearly 400 new doctoral places in the arts and humanities.

̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge supports BBC Short Story Awards

28 September 2017

̽��ֱ�� ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge is partnering with BBC Radio to promote the BBC National Short Story Award, the BBC Young Writers’ Award and the BBC Student Critics’ Award in a three year collaboration starting in 2018.

App-based citizen science experiment could help researchers predict future pandemics

27 September 2017

A new app gives UK residents the chance to get involved in an ambitious, ground-breaking science experiment that could save lives.

Anush Hovhannisyan (soprano), Samuel Sakker (tenor), and Arshak Kuzikyan (bass-baritone) record the trio finale with pianist and musicologist David Trippett, in Jesus College Chapel, ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge

Abandoned Liszt opera finally brought to life - 170 years later

07 March 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 premiere this summer after being resurrected by a Cambridge academic.

Study finds GB’s most extroverted, agreeable and emotionally stable regions

25 March 2015

A survey of almost 400,000 British residents has highlighted significant differences in personalities between regions. Amongst its findings, it shows Scots to be amongst the friendliest and most co-operative residents, Londoners the most open and Welsh people the least emotionally stable.

Tired of London? Maybe it’s time to change postal districts

12 January 2015

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,” observed the writer Samuel Johnson in the eighteenth century. In fact, research published today suggests such a man may be merely living in the wrong postcode. A study of 56,000 Londoners found that a person’s life satisfaction depends, at least in part, on whether their personality suits the place where they live.

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