cycled to a pub. I ate and drank and talked and we were wonderfully indiscreet. And it was special because it was with people I like but who are not precious to me. And for the last year I have carefully preserved my in person time for those I love. Felt good

It's June 30 and the last day of #AudioMo, so I thought I'd talk about the process and the people and the joys of random chat.

For the penulimate day of #AudioMo, June 29, I'm thinking about how language shapes thought, and how the words we use and the metaphors we choose can affect the ways we engage with others, especially when it comes to military metaphors.

June 28, Sunday #AudioMo is a shoutout to the people who keep me informed about the world. You might find them interesting too… Dan Hon: @hondanhon https://danhon.substack.com/ Ira Bolychevsky: @shevski https://redecentralize.org/ Azeem Azhar: @azeem https://www.exponentialview.co/ Christian Payne: @documentally http://documentally.com/ David Finnigan: @davidfinig https://davidfinnigan.substack.com/

June 27, and today's #AudioMo finds me missing that peculiar state of being together that we call 'an audience' and worrying about the future of live venues here in the UK.

It's June 26 and the final stretch for #AudioMo, where I am reflecting on how I tell the story of my life, and what I don't say in the process.

Ninety days on a boat and in my #AudioMo for June 25 I reflect on how good we are at ignoring the enormity of what's going on. With added cat sounds.

Wednesday June 24 and another #AudioMo, this time about filming, and being a councillor.

My #AudioMo for June 23 is something I wrote in 2017, about a group of young people playing Plague, Inc. and what I thought about it at the time.

My #AudioMo for June 22, and I'm looking at pieces of paper and reflecting on what they mean, with memories of those distant and lost. More about Beatie Wolfe https://beatiewolfe.com/

June 21, and my #AudioMo tonight is a remembrance of Hugh Mellor, the philosopher and a former teacher of mine, who died today. With passing boats.

A solstice day on the river and the riverbank, involving turning boats, ducks, and the way joy pushes out despair Erland Cooper's A Nightingale Sings Outside Our Window is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIGcK0X2vf4

On June 19, as we head towards the solstice, my #AudioMo is a reflection on the week, and lockdown, and the importance of understanding how the pandemic is experienced elsewhere.

It's June 18 but I have little to say for today's #AudioMo. I'll read Cheryl Misak's Frank Ramsay biography instead

For my #AudioMo for June 17 I've disinterred a fairly random note from over a year ago about time travel and jewel thefts. It came from a time when I travelled on trains.

In my #AudioMo for June 16 I'm reflecting on #Bloomsday and the summer to come, and wondering what will happen to holidays and travel in 2020 - and what this means for those of us who are used to the summer being a slow time in the office.

It's June 15 and a change of topic for me in #AudioMo - away from space, and into time as I reflect on the small object that sits on my desk and keeps me company as I write.

Heading into #AudioMo for June 14 and I'm picking up on the extended conversation about presence and space in our blended world, with @katesparkle to @Omaniblog @willsh & @diva_diplomatic - but this time from the beach

In my #AudioMo for June 13 I reflect on the ways we can reconfigure public space as we adapt to Covid-19, and how we need those who own private space to adapt.

My AudioMo contribution for June 12 is a reflection on commuting - or its absence. And a realisation that it'll never go back to the way it was before.

My #AudioMo post for June 11 is a meditation on how hard it can seem to change systems.

Here's my #AudioMo for June 10. I wrote a thing and recorded it for @marcusromer's ShedX and so I'm playing the first part of it here and you can listen to the rest via Marcus The text http://www.astickadogandaboxwithsomethinginit.com/paying-off-our-ecological-debt/ The ShedX version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BRnUrirIO0

Day 9 of #AudioMo and I've been on air for @digitalplanet - and I'm reflecting on the importance of context and location, and how to make a space feel different when we many of us are spending so much time in one location.

On Day 8 of #AudioMo things are a bit pressured as it's a long work day, but I have the Reflection app to keep me calm, with generative ambient music and imagery courtesy of Peter Chilvers and Brian Eno. Stay safe.

The weft of our daily lives has been unwound for many of us since SARS-COV-2 found its human hosts. Do we take this opportunity to rethink the warp, too, or are we content to weave the fabric on the same pattern.

For today's #AudioMo I'm reflecting on a new book I'm reading, Cheryl Misak's life of the philosopher Frank Ramsay, and why deep reading matters in these turbulent times.

Day Five of #AudioMo, back on the boat. Another day, another recording, this one is less good quality audio but I hope the ideas are sound as I reflect on the nature of the network we all rely on. 

Day Four of #AudioMo and I'm outside Relevant Record Cafe on Mill Road with a coffee and a sandwich talking about masks and plugging the new book @GearsForQueers which you *should* read!

Day three of #AudioMo and I'm reflecting on the difficulties facing people at the start of their careers in a 'socially distanced' world.

Today's #AudioMo recording finds me on the roof of a boat thinking about cinema and remembering the Pixel Palace at Tyneside Cinema in 2008. As I was recording this Mark Cosgrove (@msc45) was posting his excellent meditation on the same topic - so listen to me, read him, and rethink cinema https://www.the-bigger-picture.com/articles/transformative-impact-of-arts/

It's early morning and I'm watering the garden and squashing cans

#AudioMo is a month long audio challenge created by @ernmander that takes part in June. Record an audio a day, tweet the link using #AudioMo. I'm in

This is a recording of Katie's planned remarks relating to the planning application 

At the closing party for the 2017 Encounters Film Festival in Bristol, Catherine Allen and Bill Thompson discuss Second Date, Nairobi Berries and Blind Vaysha, all screened as part of the Immersive Encounters strand.

A look ahead at the evening's festivities here at the Cambridge Film Festival

A preview of all the goings on today the Cambridge Film Festival

A pair of breaking news items ahead of the main Daily Podcast later on today.

A preview of all the day's events for the 4th day of the Festival, Sunday 19th September.

A look ahead to all the happenings of the Cambridge Film Festival on Saturday 18th September.

A podcast previewing all the films at the Cambridge Film Festival for the evening of the 17th of September.

A preview of the first day of the 30th Cambridge Film Festival

Highlights of the final weekend and the festival

We're pleased to announce that a number of Festival films will be screened at an extra Festival venue over the next two days - the Cambridge Drama Centre on Covent Garden (the one off Mill Road in Cambridge)

The Cambridge film festival presents a special science on screen audio report.

The Q&A from the Berlin Films collection at the Cambridge Film Festival. Features the director of 'The Last Wash' - Ville Jankeri

The question and answer session from the film Creation.

An outline of todays events and screenings.

Listings for this evening's programme at the arts picturehouse, Cambridge.

A review of the film The Calling with highlights from the Q&A.

A review and highlights of the Q&A from the film 'The First Day of the Rest of Your Life'.

A special look ahead at what's going on at the Festival on September 21

A preview podcast for September 19... or is it?

A preview of all the sights and sounds for the Festival for September 19 brought to you in an audio report.

Highlights of the exclusive Q&A session with THE ARMY OF CRIME director Robert Guidiguian.

A preview of all the big goings-on for the second day of the 2009 Cambridge Film Festival.

Festival director Tony Jones kicks off the 29th Cambridge Film Festival and introduces ARMY OF CRIME director Robert Guediguian.

It's the opening night of the 29th Cambridge Film Festival and this podcast will tell you about some of the highlights and preview tomorrow's screenings.

The 29th Festival is fast approaching and Matt, our online intern for this year's Festival, is here to bring you a special taster podcast so you know what to expect from the Festival this year.

Lindsay Brand, Lucy Newman and Max Thompson brave the festival bar to gather some final thoughts and feelings from the 28th Cambridge film festival. Please be away that the following podcast may contain some moderate language.

Lindsay Brand and Alex Fraiser explore the Machinima talks from the cambridge film festival, focusing particularly on game-based machinima from the 'Play's the thing' discussion.

We were delighted to welcome director Ulrich Seidl to the screening of Import/Export after which he took part in a Q&A. Both confrontational and compassionate, Seidl’s tale of migration and social borders weaves its way through contemporary Europe as it interrogates the political, cultural and economic forces which shape life here. Moving in diametrically opposed directions, the film traces two of its citizens’ peripatetic journeys toward a better life: nurse Olga leaves the poverty of the Ukraine for a new start in Austria, while unemployed Austrian Paul heads to the Ukraine in search of work and meaning.

On Saturday September 20 noted actor Tilda Swinton came to Cambridge for the screening of JULIA, one of several films in this year's Festival with which she is associated.In this first extract from the Q&A session which followed the screening Tilda talks about JULIA and about the state of independent cinema in the UK.

Set in a thriving town in the midlands of Ireland, EDEN tells the story of a week in the lives of Billy and Breda Farrell as they approach their 10th wedding anniversary. Breda is determined that the milestone will re-ignite the passion in their marriage. Billy’s got other plans. He’s become infatuated with the unobtainable Imelda Egan and has convinced himself that they will be lovers by the weekend. As the date draws closer, Billy's behaviour becomes more and more chaotic, while Breda's frustrations crystalise and find more mature, high-risk expression. EDEN is the screen adaptation of Eugene O'Brien's critically acclaimed, award-winning play of the same name, marking the second collaboration by director Declan Recks, Eugene O’Brien and RTÉ Television.We were delighted that lead actor Aidan Kelley was able to be present for the screening on Friday 19 September.  EDEN is screened again on Saturday 20 September.

Festival Director Tony Jones introduces the 2008 Cambridge Film Festival, and namechecks Tilda Swinton, Peter Greenaway, Werner Herzog, Neil Brand and of course Emily Boldy.Followed by Walter Salles' introduction to his film LINHA DE PASSE.For more film festival news go to www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk or subscribe to this podcast on iTunes - via http://bit.ly/2pfRuG

The Festival kicked off with two open-air screenings of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY in front of the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, and we were there to talk to the audience and the organisers of this extraordinary event.Producer: Bill Thompson

Our opening night film is LINHA DE PASSE.Sao Paulo. 20 million inhabitants, 200 kilometres of traffic, 300,000 messengers on motorcycles. At the heart of one of the toughest, most chaotic cities in the world, four brothers try to reinvent themselves in different ways. With the backdrop of Brazil in a state of emergency, each one is looking for a way out… This effort from Walter Salles (THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES) and his frequent collaborator Daniela Thomas (MIDNIGHT) is a characteristically humane and intelligent work. Steadfast in its refusal to glamourise violence and the extremity of the environment which the film’s characters are forced to inhabit, LINHA DE PASSE exudes compassion, drama and insight.

Jan Gilbert chats to local filmmaker Peter Harmer about the Cambridgeshire Film Consortium's recent World War Two reminiscence project which brought together primary school children and local care home residents.

Jan Gilbert talks to April Mullen and Tim Doiron, writers-producers-directors and stars of "Rock, Paper, Scissors: The Way of the Tosser", the runaway cult hit of this year's CFF.

 Jan Gilbert interviews accompanist Neil Brand about his work and the films he is performing to at this year's Festival.

Kenneth Branagh's 'As You Like It' is one of the most popular films at this year's Festival. Here Jan Gilbert talks to the director about Shakespeare, Japan, and future projects.

The 27th Cambridge Film Festival kicked off in grand style last night with a performance from Michael Nyman.  Bill Thompson was there to hear his accompaniment to Vertov and Vigo - and here he introduces this year's festival programme.

Jan Gilbert talks to John Naughton, chair of the 'Future Space' session at the ENTER_ conference

Jan Gilbert talks to  Sarah Evans

Jan Gilbert talks to Mark Dixon, creator of the spectacular LED lightshow, Network, which illuminates Parker's Piece each night of the festival.

A conversation with Giles Lane from Proboscis

Jan talks to Sarah Thompson about the festival

George Evangelinos shows Jan around a dome...

Jan Gilbert talks to programme manager Chris Rogers