Freedom of speech, an unseen archive, and the happy ending effect.

Douglas Adams came up to St John’s in 1971. Seven years later, the first episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy aired. As his archive goes on display at St John’s, CAM asks Adams’s Cambridge friends and collaborators about his comic genius.

Rowan Williams (Christ’s 1968) and third-year Human, Social and Political Science student Grace Etheredge discuss icons, baked beans and a bed-sized alcove at Y27 Third Court, Christ’s.

Before the internet, boredom was something to be feared. Today, experts are wondering whether it might actually be good for us

Tributes to the late Professor Hawking, a new ice rink, and the complex minds of sheep.