Frank Hermann: “seeing other people with smiling faces just makes me happy”
Charlie Cavey – The Busker in the bin
Jan-Werner Müller on democracy and its institutions
“I definitely do have responsibility; the level of that responsibility I don’t know yet.” Max Fosh at The Cambridge Union
Ming Kit Wong sits down with Frank Hermann from Selwyn catering to talk about his Hungarian background and life in Cambridge
Sandaleen Qaiser discusses the connective powers of poetry in the pandemic year with Homerton’s first Poet-in-Residence, Dr Mariah Whelan
Interview
Gail Sawyer & Sarah Dickinson, speak to Chloé Gommichon about creating a productive space for those in the Cambridge community recovering from substance misuse and mental illness
Interview
Tilly Palmer speaks to Simon Godwin, Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, about Shakespeare in Cambridge, keeping his plays alive and the future of post-pandemic theatre
Martha French speaks with three-time author and Cambridge alumna Olivia Sudjic about the state of contemporary fiction, and her new novel Asylum Road.
New York Times journalist Elizabeth Paton sits down for a candid conversation with Fashion Creative Contributor Muhammad Syed about investigative journalism and sustainability.
Josef Skrdlik interviews Toby Young, founder of the Free Speech Union, about his take on ‘cancel culture’ and freedom of debate concerning the government’s response to the Covid pandemic.
In the second instalment of our series spotlighting life in humanitarian crises, Victor Jack speaks with Yasser Ahmed, a 20-year old Yemeni student who describes the traumas, poverty and declining hope facing young people after six years of civil war
Varsity Editor Georgina Buckle chats with British actor Thomas Brodie-Sangster about anything and everything: from The Queen’s Gambit, to house design and even roast chicken
Research Spotlight
Ming Kit Wong discusses Shruti Kapila’s research on fraternity and ‘the other’ in Indian political thought.
Journalist Razia Iqbal speaks to Amy Walpole about leading one of RBG’s last interviews – and the peculiar presence of the legendary figure.
Zoe Swanwick reports on the Cambridge Union’s mock Prime Minister’s Questions – and hears how student political societies have adapted to life in a pandemic
Meet the Ghanaian student who deserves PhD funding: an interview with Gerald Arhin
Olivia Emily talks to corporate manager Gill-Whitty Collins about structural gender inequality and her new book, Why Men Win at Work.
From making short films at university to becoming an award-winning director, Mojola Akinyemi speaks to South Londoner Abraham Adeyemi about his big break with ‘No More Wings’
Alex Parton talks to American political scientist Joseph Nye about the Sino-Western conflict, a Biden presidency and what not to do when fighting a pandemic
‘The Government are drifting into trouble’: Vinc
Interview
Ellie Arden and Jacob Arbeid speak to Noam Chomsky about global pandemic, activism and the destruction of life on earth.
Grace Blackshaw speaks to Professor Allwood about how we can deliver the UK’s commitment to zero emissions by 2050
Switchboard presenter Alfie Barrishi sat down with the Vice President of the Cambridge University Vegan Society to discuss the phenomenon of ‘Veganuary’
Switchboard speaks to Julia Simons, who gained national media attention last year after confronting Boris Johnson outside Addenbrooke’s Hospital
Jacob Dabb sits down with Lord Richard Layard, who, in the early 2000s, successfully lobbied to double NHS spending on talking therapy and expanded the provision of CBT across the UK
Cambridge-based political economist Professor Helen Thompson sits down with Jess Ma to discuss the role of academics in public discussion in an age of democratic upheaval
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