Jade, a poet and third year OOC DTP doctoral student at Cambridge, has recently appeared on BBC Radio 3's Sunday Feature, as part of her role as a BBC New Generation Thinker through the Arts and Humanities Research Council Scheme.
In a programme, centred on centred on In the Fen Country from 1904, Vaughan Williams’ earliest acknowledged composition, Jade spoke about the fenland journeys of the composer and reflected on his ties to Cambridge. Jade interviewed her former undergraduate supervisor, Dr Alyson Tapp of Clare College, now a gardener at the College, about Vaughan Williams’ attachment to the fens and met her current PhD supervisor, Professor Robert Macfarlane of Emmanuel College, to explore the region’s complex reputation.
You can listen to the programme here.
