Editing Cambridge (section)

== Culture ==
[[File:Cambridge Guildhall.jpg|thumb|[[Cambridge Guildhall]]]]
[[File:Cambridge Corn Exchange, Wheeler Street, Cambridge (geograph 4835488).jpg|thumb|[[Cambridge Corn Exchange]]]]

=== Theatre ===
Cambridge's main traditional theatre is the [[Cambridge Arts Theatre|Arts Theatre]], a venue with 666 seats in the town centre.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cambridgeartstheatre.com/ |title=Cambridge Arts Theatre Website |publisher=Cambridgeartstheatre.com |access-date=17 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100712142603/http://www.cambridgeartstheatre.com/ |archive-date=12 July 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref> The theatre often has touring shows, as well as those by local companies. The largest venue in the city to regular hold theatrical performances is the [[Cambridge Corn Exchange]] with a capacity of 1,800 standing or 1,200 seated. Housed within the city's 19th century former [[corn exchange]] building the venue was used for a variety of additional functions throughout the 20th century including [[Tea party (social gathering)|tea parties]], [[motor show]]s, sports matches and a music venue with temporary stage.<ref name=Cornexhist>{{cite web|url=http://www.cornex.co.uk/ccm/cornex/pages/virtualtour/history-of-the-cambridge-corn-exchange.en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829124506/http://www.cornex.co.uk/ccm/cornex/pages/virtualtour/history-of-the-cambridge-corn-exchange.en|archive-date=29 August 2008|title=The History of the Cambridge Corn Exchange|publisher=Cambridge City Council|access-date=2 March 2009}}</ref> The City Council renovated the building in the 1980s, turning it into a full-time arts venue, hosting theatre, dance and music performances.<ref name=Cornexhist />
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The newest theatre venue in Cambridge is the 220-seat J2, part of [[Cambridge Junction]] in Cambridge Leisure Park. The venue was opened in 2005 and hosts theatre, dance, live music and comedy<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.junction.co.uk/about-us/our-spaces |title=Our Spaces |work=junction.co.uk |quote=J2 is the venue for our theatre, dance, family theatre and comedy programme |access-date=28 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120212004617/http://www.junction.co.uk/about-us/our-spaces |archive-date=12 February 2012 }}</ref> The [[ADC Theatre]] is managed by the University of Cambridge, and typically has 3 shows a week during term time. It hosts the [[Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club]] which has produced many notable figures in British comedy. The Mumford Theatre is part of [[Anglia Ruskin University]], and hosts shows by both student and non-student groups. There are also a number of venues within the colleges.

=== Museums ===
Within the city there are several notable museums, some run by the [[University of Cambridge Museums]] consortium and others independent of it.

The [[Fitzwilliam Museum]] is the city's largest, and is the lead museum of the University of Cambridge Museums. Founded in 1816 from the bequeathment and collections of [[Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount FitzWilliam|Richard, Viscount FitzWilliam]], the museum was originally located in the building of the [[Perse Grammar School]] in [[Free School Lane]].<ref name=Fitwilliam>{{cite book |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol3/pp326-327 |chapter=The University of Cambridge – The Fitzwilliam Museum|title=A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3, the City and University of Cambridge|editor-first=J. P. C. |editor-last=Roach|date=1959|pages=326–327|access-date=17 May 2016}}</ref> After a brief housing in the University of Cambridge library, it moved to its current, purpose-built building on [[Trumpington Street]] in 1848.<ref name=Fitwilliam /> The museum has five departments: Antiquities; Applied Arts; Coins and Medals; Manuscripts and Printed Books; and Paintings, Drawings and Prints. Other members of the University of Cambridge Museums are the [[Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge|Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology]], [[Scott Polar Research Institute|The Polar Museum]], [[Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences|The Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences]], [[Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge|Museum of Classical Archaeology]], [[Whipple Museum of the History of Science|The Whipple Museum of the History of Science]], and the [[Cambridge University Museum of Zoology|University Museum of Zoology]].

The [[Museum of Cambridge]], formerly known as the Cambridge & County Folk Museum, is a [[social history]] museum located in a former pub on Castle Street.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fensmuseums.org.uk/page_id__45.aspx|title=Museum of Cambridge: The life and history of the people of Cambridge|publisher=Fen Museum Partnership|access-date=13 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220064054/http://www.fensmuseums.org.uk/page_id__45.aspx|archive-date=20 December 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> [[The Centre for Computing History]], a museum dedicated to the story of the [[Information Age]], moved to Cambridge from [[Haverhill, Suffolk|Haverhill]] in 2013.<ref>{{cite news|title=Cambridge Centre of Computing History opens|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-23493348|access-date=13 September 2016|work=BBC News|date=30 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220065606/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-23493348|archive-date=20 February 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Housed in a former sewage pumping station, the [[Cambridge Museum of Technology]] has a collection of large exhibits related to the city's [[industrial heritage]].

=== Music ===

==== Popular music ====
[[Pink Floyd]] are the most notable band with roots in Cambridge. The band's former songwriter, guitarist and vocalist [[Syd Barrett]] was born and lived in the city, and he and another founding member, [[Roger Waters]], went to school together at [[Cambridgeshire High School for Boys]]. [[David Gilmour]], the guitarist who replaced Barrett, was also a Cambridge resident and attended the nearby [[Perse School]]. Bands that were formed in Cambridge include [[Clean Bandit]], [[Henry Cow]], [[The Movies (UK band)|the Movies]], [[Katrina and the Waves]], [[the Soft Boys]],<ref>{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p5472|label=The Soft Boys}}</ref> [[Ezio (band)|Ezio]]<ref>{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p165353|label=Ezio}}</ref> [[the Broken Family Band]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.xfm.co.uk/artists/the-broken-family-band/biography|title=The Broken Family Band biography|publisher=xfm.co.uk|access-date=13 August 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081220143638/http://www.xfm.co.uk/artists/the-broken-family-band/biography|archive-date=20 December 2008}}</ref> [[Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Rivadavia|first=Eduardo|title=Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats: Blood Lust|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/blood-lust-mw0002264930|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=2 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130105141812/http://www.allmusic.com/album/blood-lust-mw0002264930|archive-date=5 January 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> and the pop-classical group [[the King's Singers]], who were formed at the university.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kingssingers.com/about.php?startid=9 |title=The Official Kings Singers Website :History |work=kingssingers.com |year=2012 |quote=The group takes its name from King's College Cambridge, where Martin Lane, Al Hume, Alastair Thompson, Richard Salter, Simon Carrington and Brian Kay were choral scholars. |access-date=25 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111010165008/http://kingssingers.com/about.php?startid=9 |archive-date=10 October 2011}}</ref> Solo artist [[Boo Hewerdine]]<ref>{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p85801|label=Boo Hewerdine}}</ref> is from Cambridge, as are [[drum and bass]] artists (and brothers) [[Nu:Tone]] and [[Logistics (artist)|Logistics]]. Singers [[Matthew Bellamy]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/8176141/Muse-profile-of-the-band.html |title=Muse: profile of the band |first=David |last=Cheal |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=13 April 2001 |access-date=28 February 2012 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303185130/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/8176141/Muse-profile-of-the-band.html |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> of the rock band [[Muse (band)|Muse]], [[Tom Robinson]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Tom Robinson is showing a new generation the power of the protest song|url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/tom-robinson-singer-shows-new-generation-the-power-of-the-protest-song-in-his-first-album-for-20-10467604.html|website = The Independent |access-date=11 February 2016 |language = en-GB|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160216060406/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/tom-robinson-singer-shows-new-generation-the-power-of-the-protest-song-in-his-first-album-for-20-10467604.html|archive-date = 16 February 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Olivia Newton-John]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olivia-newtonjohn.com/olivia-newton-john/bio.php |title=Biography |publisher=olivia-newtonjohn.com |access-date=9 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219180138/http://www.olivia-newtonjohn.com/olivia-newton-john/bio.php |archive-date=19 December 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and [[Charli XCX]] were born in the city. 2012 [[Mercury Prize]] winners [[Alt-J]] are based in Cambridge.<ref>{{cite web |last=Jane |first=Sarah |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20176215 |title=Mercury Prize: Alt-J album An Awesome Wave wins award |publisher=BBC News |date=2 November 2012 |access-date=26 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116170303/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20176215 |archive-date=16 January 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Live music venues hosting popular music in the city include the [[Cambridge Corn Exchange]], [[Cambridge Junction]], the Portland Arms, and The Blue Moon.<ref name="Naylor">{{cite web|last=Naylor|first=Tony|date=10 October 2017|title=The alt city guide to Cambridge|url=http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/oct/10/alt-city-guide-cambridge-bars-clubs-food-drink-music-culture|url-status=live|access-date=20 February 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en|archive-date=12 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112014759/https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/oct/10/alt-city-guide-cambridge-bars-clubs-food-drink-music-culture}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Wilde |first1=Gabrielle |title=The Blue Moon – Cambridge pub that's so cool it puts The Fonz to shame |url=https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/blue-moon-cambridge-pub-thats-23639889 |website=Cambridge News |date=8 April 2022 |access-date=11 July 2022}}</ref>

==== Classical music ====
Started in 1991, the annual Cambridge Music Festival takes place each November.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cambridge Music Festival – British Arts Festivals Association |url=https://www.artsfestivals.co.uk/festivals-directory/festivals/cambridge-music-festival/ |publisher=BAFA |access-date=29 February 2020 |language=en |archive-date=29 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229130417/https://www.artsfestivals.co.uk/festivals-directory/festivals/cambridge-music-festival/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The Cambridge Summer Music Festival takes place in July.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cambridge Summer Music Festival – British Arts Festivals Association |url=https://www.artsfestivals.co.uk/festivals-directory/festivals/cambridge-summer-music-festival/ |publisher=BAFA |access-date=29 February 2020 |language=en |archive-date=29 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229130422/https://www.artsfestivals.co.uk/festivals-directory/festivals/cambridge-summer-music-festival/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Contemporary art ===
Cambridge contains [[Kettle's Yard]] gallery of modern and contemporary art and the [[Downing College, Cambridge#Heong Gallery|Heong Gallery]] which opened to the public in 2016 at [[Downing College, Cambridge|Downing College.]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=|date=19 May 2016|title=History of the Heong Gallery building|url=https://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/about/downing-college-archive/archives/history-heong-gallery-building|url-status=live|access-date=17 February 2021|website=Downing College Cambridge|language=en|archive-date=6 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206092025/https://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/about/downing-college-archive/archives/history-heong-gallery-building}}</ref> Anglia Ruskin University operates the publicly accessible Ruskin Gallery within the Cambridge School of Art.<ref>{{cite web|title=About the gallery|url=http://www.anglia.ac.uk/arts-law-and-social-sciences/ruskin-gallery/about-the-gallery|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609233939/http://www.anglia.ac.uk/arts-law-and-social-sciences/ruskin-gallery/about-the-gallery|archive-date=9 June 2016|access-date=18 May 2016|publisher=Anglia Ruskin University}}</ref> [[Wysing Arts Centre]], one of the leading research centres for the visual arts in Europe, is associated with the city, though is located several miles west of Cambridge.<ref>{{cite web|date=3 December 2012|title=cultunet|url=http://www.cultunet.com/es/recursos-culturales/convocatorias/wysing-arts-centre-programme-of-artists-residencies-cambridge|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429192943/http://www.cultunet.com/es/recursos-culturales/convocatorias/wysing-arts-centre-programme-of-artists-residencies-cambridge|archive-date=29 April 2014|access-date=3 February 2013|publisher=cultunet.com}}</ref> Artist-run organisations including Aid & Abet,<ref name="Naylor" /> Cambridge Art Salon, Changing Spaces<ref>{{cite web|last1=Collins|first1=Ruthie|title=Cambridge art scene: change in the air|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2013/jan/03/cambridge-art-scene-galleries-change|website=The guardian|access-date=20 April 2016|date=3 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427205431/http://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2013/jan/03/cambridge-art-scene-galleries-change|archive-date=27 April 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> and Motion Sickness<ref>{{Cite web|last=Curtis|first=Adrian|date=29 August 2019|title=Motion sickness art exhibition at Lion Yard looks at the 'Me me, me generation'|url=https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/motion-sickness-art-exhibition-at-lion-yard-looks-at-the-me-me-me-generation-9081198/|url-status=live|access-date=20 February 2021|website=Cambridge Independent|language=en|archive-date=15 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115174607/https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/motion-sickness-art-exhibition-at-lion-yard-looks-at-the-me-me-me-generation-9081198/}}</ref> also run exhibitions, events and artists' studios in the city, often in short-term or temporary spaces.

=== Festivals and events ===
[[File:Cowboys on the field (14851514483).jpg|thumb|Festival-goers attending the 2014 [[Cambridge Folk Festival]]]]
[[File:Cmglee Cambridge Science Festival 2015 Menger sponge.jpg|thumb|[[Sierpinski tetrahedron]] and [[menger sponge]] models at the [[Cambridge Science Festival]]]]
Several fairs and festivals take place in Cambridge, mostly during the British summer. [[Midsummer Common|Midsummer Fair]] dates back to 1211, when it was granted a charter by [[John, King of England|King John]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/nfa/researchandarticles/cambridgefair|title=Cambridge Midsummer Fair|access-date=26 April 2016|publisher=National Fairground Archive, [[University of Sheffield]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630135625/http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/nfa/researchandarticles/cambridgefair|archive-date=30 June 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Today it exists primarily as an annual [[travelling funfair|funfair]] with the vestige of a market attached and is held over several days around or close to [[midsummers day]]. On the first Saturday in June Midsummer Common is the site for [[Strawberry Fair]], a free music and children's fair, with various market stalls. For one week in May, on [[Jesus Green]], the annual [[Cambridge Beer Festival]] has been held since 1974.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cambridgebeerfestival.com |title=Cambridge & District CAMRA Winter Ale Festival 2010 |publisher=Cambridgebeerfestival.com |access-date=13 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110128192625/http://cambridgebeerfestival.com/ |archive-date=28 January 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[File:Cambridge Film Festival - 2022 - Triangle of Sadness.jpg|thumb|alt=a full cinema auditorium prior to a screening at Cambridge Film Festival|[[Cambridge Film Festival]] audience for a screening of [[Triangle of Sadness]]]]
Launched in 1977 [[Cambridge Film Festival]] is the third-longest-running film festival in the UK.
Presented annually each autumn by the Cambridge Film Trust, the Festival showcases a selection of around 100, predominantly independent and specialised, films and embeds them within a programme of special events, Q&As, and talks.

[[Cambridge Folk Festival]] is held annually in the grounds of [[Cherry Hinton Hall]]. The festival has been organised by the city council since its inception in 1964. The Cambridge Summer Music Festival is an annual festival of classical music, held in the university's colleges and chapels.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/festivals/cambridge-summer-music-festival|title=Cambridge Summer Music Festival|publisher=The Gramophone|access-date=20 October 2010}}</ref> The [[Cambridge Shakespeare Festival]] is an eight-week season of open-air performances of the works of [[William Shakespeare]], held in the gardens of various colleges of the university.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.cambridgeshakespeare.com/about/ |title= About the Festival |publisher= The Cambridge Shakespeare Festival |access-date= 27 February 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120209185139/http://www.cambridgeshakespeare.com/about/ |archive-date= 9 February 2012 |url-status= live }}</ref>

The [[Cambridge Science Festival]], typically held annually in March, is the United Kingdom's largest free [[science festival]].<ref>{{cite news|title=University of Cambridge Science Festival 2011|work=BBC News|url=http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-12759607|access-date=21 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402222018/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-12759607|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> The Cambridge Literary Festival, which focusses on contemporary literary fiction and non-fiction, is held bi-annually in April and November.<ref>{{Cite web|title=All about|url=https://www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/about/|access-date=2022-02-02|website=Cambridge Literary Festival|language=en-GB}}</ref> Between 1975 and 1985 the [[Cambridge Poetry Festival]] was held biannually.<ref>{{cite web|last=Blair-Underwood|first=Alison|year=2012|title=Open account – A memoir: the Cambridge Poetry Festival|url=http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/issue9/AlisonBlairUnderwoodPR9.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130322235238/http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/issue9/AlisonBlairUnderwoodPR9.html|archive-date=22 March 2013|access-date=6 June 2013|work=Blackbox Manifold, Issue 9: Peter Robinson at Sixty|publisher=Blackbox Manifold}}</ref> Other festivals include the annual Mill Road Winter Fair, held the first Saturday of December,<ref>{{Cite news
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Three Cambridge Free Festivals held in 1969, 1970, and 1971 that featured artists including [[David Bowie]], [[King Crimson]], [[Roy Harper (singer)|Roy Harper]], [[Spontaneous Combustion (English band)|Spontaneous Combustion]], [[UFO (band)|UFO]] and others are believed by the festival organiser to have been the first free multiple-day rock music festivals held in the UK.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/cambridge-free-1969.html |title=Description, poster, and images, 1969 Cambridge Free Festival, Midsummer Common, 8-11 June 1969. Performers: David Bowie, King Crimson, Roy Harper, and others. Retrieved 15 July 2020. |access-date=15 July 2020 |archive-date=19 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219023155/http://ukrockfestivals.com/cambridge-free-1969.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/cambridge-midsummer-pop.jpg |title=Concert poster: The Cambridge Free Festival, Midsummer Common, 8-11th June 1969. Performers: David Bowie, King Crimson, Roy Harper, and others. Retrieved 15 July 2020. |access-date=15 July 2020 |archive-date=30 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830220314/http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/cambridge-midsummer-pop.jpg |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/cam-69-free-fest-blurb.jpg |title=Invitation to attend and explanation of event: The Cambridge Free Festival, Midsummer Common, 8-11th June 1969. Performers: David Bowie, King Crimson, Roy Harper, and others. Retrieved 15 July 2020. |access-date=15 July 2020 |archive-date=30 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830220231/http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/cam-69-free-fest-blurb.jpg |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/cam-69-free-fest-time-1.jpg |title=Programme of performers, 8 and 9 June 1969. The Cambridge Free Festival, Midsummer Common, 8-11th June 1969. Performers: David Bowie, King Crimson, Roy Harper, and others. Retrieved 15 July 2020. |access-date=15 July 2020 |archive-date=30 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830220301/http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/cam-69-free-fest-time-1.jpg |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/cam-69-free-fest-time-2.jpg |title=Programme of performers, 10 and 11 June 1969. The Cambridge Free Festival, Midsummer Common, 8-11th June 1969. Performers: David Bowie, King Crimson, Roy Harper, and others. Retrieved 15 July 2020. |access-date=15 July 2020 |archive-date=30 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830220248/http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/cam-69-free-fest-time-2.jpg |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/cambridge-free-1969.html |title=1970 Cambridge Free Festival, Coldham's Common, 5 August 1970. Edgar Broughton, Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Demon Fuzz, Black Widow, Elder Kindred. Retrieved 15 July 2020. |access-date=15 July 2020 |archive-date=19 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200219023155/http://ukrockfestivals.com/cambridge-free-1969.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/cambridge-free-festival.html |title=Cambridge Free Festival, Coldham's Common, 12th/13th June 1971. Spontaneous Combustion scheduled Saturday afternoon and UFO Saturday evening, 12 June 1971, were among the 23 scheduled performers. Retrieved 15 July 2020. |access-date=15 July 2020 |archive-date=18 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218015827/http://ukrockfestivals.com/cambridge-free-festival.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/cambridge-free-71-timeline.jpg |title=Concert line-up, Cambridge Free Festival, Coldham's Common, 12th/13th June 1971. Spontaneous Combustion scheduled Saturday afternoon and UFO Saturday evening, 12 June 1971, were among the 23 scheduled performers. Retrieved 15 July 2020. |access-date=15 July 2020 |archive-date=28 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128173659/http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/cambridge-free-71-timeline.jpg |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/cambridge-free-71-poster.jpg |title=Concert poster: Cambridge Free Festival, Coldham's Common, 12th/13th June 1971. Spontaneous Combustion scheduled Saturday afternoon and UFO Saturday evening, 12 June 1971, were among the 23 scheduled performers. Retrieved 15 July 2020 |access-date=15 July 2020 |archive-date=28 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128013017/http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/cambridge-free-71-poster.jpg |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Literature and film ===
The city has been the setting for all or part of several novels, including [[Douglas Adams]]' ''[[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]]'', [[Rose Macaulay]]'s ''[[They Were Defeated]]'',<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19321224.2.33.5 |title=They were defeated |newspaper=Evening Post |location=Wellington, NZ |page=7 |date=24 December 1932 |access-date=7 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110921022121/http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=EP19321224.2.33.5 |archive-date=21 September 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Kate Atkinson (writer)|Kate Atkinson]]'s ''[[Case Histories]]'',<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3622947/A-daily-sense-of-danger.html |title=A Daily Sense of Danger – ''Case Histories'' by Kate Atkinson |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |first=Katie |last=Owen |date=29 August 2004 |access-date=25 February 2011 |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611044344/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3622947/A-daily-sense-of-danger.html |archive-date=11 June 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Rebecca Stott]]'s ''Ghostwalk''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/03/2007_12_fri.shtml |title=Woman's Hour -Rebecca Stott on 'Ghostwalk' |publisher=BBC Radio 4 |year=2012 |access-date=25 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728020732/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/03/2007_12_fri.shtml |archive-date=28 July 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Robert Harris (novelist)|Robert Harris]]' ''Enigma'',<ref>{{cite book |author=Chainey, Graham |title=A Literary History of Cambridge |location=Cambridge |orig-year=1985 |year=1995 |isbn=0-907115-25-X |publisher=Pevensey Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Garrett, Martin |title=Cambridge: a Cultural and Literary History|location=Oxford|year=2004|isbn=1-902669-79-7 |publisher=Signal Books }}</ref> while [[Susanna Gregory]] wrote a series of novels set in 14th century Cambridge.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.literaturewales.org/writers-of-wales/i/130359/desc/gregory-susanna/ |title=GREGORY, SUSANNA &#124; List of Writers |work=The Writers of Wales Database |publisher=Literature Wales |access-date= 25 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831223859/http://www.literaturewales.org/writers-of-wales/i/130359/desc/gregory-susanna/ |archive-date= 31 August 2013 |df= dmy-all }}</ref> [[Gwen Raverat]], the granddaughter of [[Charles Darwin]], talked about her late Victorian Cambridge childhood in her memoir ''[[Period Piece (book)|Period Piece]]'', and ''[[The Night Climbers of Cambridge]]'' is a book written by [[Noel Symington]] under the pseudonym "Whipplesnaith" about nocturnal climbing on the colleges and town buildings of Cambridge in the 1930s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cucc.survex.com/archive/jnl/1983/roof.htm|title=Some References to Cambridge Night Climbing|access-date=26 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090209213416/http://cucc.survex.com/archive/jnl/1983/roof.htm |website=Cambridge University Caving Club Archive |archive-date=9 February 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Fictionalised versions of Cambridge appear in [[Philippa Pearce]]'s ''[[Tom's Midnight Garden]]'' and ''[[Minnow on the Say]]'', the city renamed as Castleford, and as the home of [[Tom Sharpe]]'s fictional college in ''[[Porterhouse Blue]]''.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/noequalinworlda00crow |url-access=registration |title=No equal in the world: an interpretation of the academic presidency |first=Joseph N. |last=Crowley |publisher=University of Nevada Press |location=Reno, NV |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-87417-237-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/noequalinworlda00crow/page/167 167] |access-date=25 February 2012 }}</ref>

[[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] TV series [[Grantchester (TV series)|''Granchester'']] was partly filmed in Cambridge.<ref>{{cite web |title=Grantchester – Drama Series Hits ITV 1 |url=https://www.visitcambridge.org/things-to-do/film-and-tv-locations-to-visit/grantchester-tv-series |website=Visit Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge City Council |access-date=31 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401075528/https://www.visitcambridge.org/things-to-do/film-and-tv-locations-to-visit/grantchester-tv-series |archive-date=1 April 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Television ===
News and television programmes are broadcast from the [[BBC Look East]] (West) studio in Cambridge.<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC One – Look East (West) |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rpwxj |website=BBC}}</ref>

=== Radio ===
Local radio stations are [[BBC Radio Cambridgeshire]] on 96.0 FM, [[Heart East]] on 103.0 FM, [[Cambridge 105]] on 105 FM, [[Star Radio (Cambridge and Ely)|Star Radio]] on 100.7 FM and [[Cam FM]] on 97.2 is a student run-radio station at the [[University of Cambridge]] and [[Anglia Ruskin University]].

=== Newspapers ===
The city's local newspapers are ''[[Cambridge News]]'', ''[[Cambridge Independent]]'' and ''[[Varsity (Cambridge)|Varsity]]'', the student newspaper of the University of Cambridge.