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EASE THE LOCKDOWN BOREDOM WITH THESE CAMBRIDGE-MADE PODCASTS

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2 CLF PLAYER When the pandemic hit, Cambridge Literary Festival had to move fast to adapt to the brave new world – and from a virtual book club to a fully-online festival, the team has proved fleet of foot in creating fantastic content for us to enjoy at home. Part of the pandemic output was a podcast series, available to listen to via the CLF website and hosted by festival patron and regular chair Alex Clark. These cosy chats are a must for book lovers, featuring writers such Hadley Freeman and former Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman. There’s only six episodes, but there’s more content available via the CFL Player, which hosts hundreds of archived audio and video recordings from the Literary Festival and its sister event, Wimpole History Festival. From André Aciman to Elif Shafak, Tom Kerridge to Colm Tóibín – there’s plenty to stimulate your mind, heart and soul, and you can enjoy unlimited access with a £10 annual subscription fee. For a more interactive experience, check out the CLF Book Club: up for Feb, local author Jill Dawson discusses her book The Crime Writer , with audience members invited to read the book ahead of the event. You can join in with questions on Wednesday 17 February at 7pm, tickets £5. cambridgeliteraryfestival.com

Explore the unique relationships between siblings with recently

launched podcast Relatively, which delves into the family lives of figures including Jess Phillips MP and Davina de Campo. Sometimes sad and often funny, the episodes give listeners an acutely personal glimpse into the guests’ upbringing: embarrassing memories, in-jokes, rivalries, silly nicknames and all. Host Catherine Carr isn’t afraid to ask the tricky questions, interviewing guests both together and separately to discover the connections between them as adults, as well as what it was (really) like growing up together. The first series features historian Dan Snow and his little sister Beck, as well as actor and musician Johnny Flynn and his sister Lillie, while future episodes will see presenter Nicky Campbell talking about his adoption, and author Marian Keyes discussing sibling relationships in her bestselling books. Later in 2021, the podcast will take a sciencey turn, looking at academic research into the importance of siblings and how these relationships shape us as individuals, as well as how dynamics with our brothers and sisters provide a training ground for all our other relationships. relativelypodcast.com

IMAGES Sibling relationships are put under the spotlight in Relatively (top); Alex Clark gets chatty with writers for CLF (above)

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