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It is back. Do NOT miss the awesome opportunity on Sunday 26th to see some truly amazing bands. If you’re a massive music fan, or want to find a new artist to fall in love with, Dot-To-Dot is the festival for you. The variety of bands to see is fantastic, each venue has a great atmosphere plus you don’t have to crack out the wellies to get from A to B.

So what is Dot To Dot?
Basically, an awesome festival over three days; starting in Manchester on the Friday, Bristol on the Saturday and, saving best til last, ending in Nottingham on Sunday. It’s 14 hours of running from venue to venue, giving you the opportunity to see whichever great artists or bands you want. There’s literally something for EVERYONE.

Who's playing?
Last year’s stages were graced by Bastille, The Drums, To Kill A King and Jake Bugg, to name a few! DtD is the perfect opportunity to see all those fantastic artists for a ridiculous good price. Once again, Dot to Dot have got some absolute corkers for you. Headliners are

Monday 13th March saw Meadow Lane host the hotly-anticipated rugby showdown between Nottingham's two Universities, and URN were there to cover the night's proceedings live as they happened. Rob Schofield and Justin Guthrie were in the hot seat to guide you through.

The chaps explained what to expect from this evening.

We came on air just as the Uni ladies had completed their 34-17 victory over Trent, so without further ado we went live to our touchline reporter, James Constantine, to hear what the winners had to say about their well-fought victory.

The Varsity Series is about much more than just this event - it began back in February, with American Football, and all the events are in aid of charity. The team explained all.

This year's Varsity Charity is Headway, a charity founded in Nottingham which works to support sufferers of brain injuries. Michael Gaffney spoke to one of Headway's volunteers, Angela, who explained more about the vital work the charity does.

It's been a long road up to this point, but a successful year saw Uni reach this point with the Varsity Series already wrapped up. We recapped what had happened in a triumphant year for University sport.

Astronomer and cosmic optician Dr. Simon Dye joins us in the studio to talk about about cosmic lenses - the magnified images of distant galaxies that we wouldn't normally be able to study. Simon studies these rare distant objects and attempts to work out what they look like. By doing this, Simon can study how galaxies formed and evolved in detail not available in unmagnified systems.

To begin our journey into cosmic lenses, we must remind ourselves about that ubiquitous force that is responsible for many a dropped phone - gravity. You can listen to our previous show all about gravity below, or skip to the next paragraph for the condensed version especially for those on the go.

It has recently been announced that New College Nottingham (NCN) is offering a foundation degree in heavy metal. Course convenor, Liam Maloy has set up the degree in response to demands from students. URN spoke to Liam Maloy and he explained what prospective students can expect to get from the degree.

With many students concerned with the debt they are going to rack up from university we asked Liam to inform us of the cost of the degree and what students can hope to receive for their money.

Students have expressed views about the degree and one said “the only people who may take it seriously are people signing heavy metal bands but the nature of music is that you don't need a degree in it to be any better than someone busking on the street so it won't really help them with employability in that respect.” Liam disagrees with this and explains what employability prospects he expects from future graduates.

NCN have not only received criticism from students but from the Campaign for Real Education who has deemed it a ‘waste of time’ and an ‘easy option’.

We are The Science Show and we need to talk about mental health. This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and its an important issue that will affect almost all of us in some form or another during our lives. Whilst students have shown ourselves to be more open, honest and frank about many things, including sex and mental health, we still find ourselves silenced by unnecessary stigma attached to these important problems.

Here we will be looking at the more scientific areas of mental health disorders. For more information on the more general aspects, please listen to the show 6-7pm on 13/05/2013 or if you missed it find the podcast here.

Introduction to Neurochemstry
The brain is the most complicated machine on Earth. Leading scientists have been searching for years as to the wonders of the thing that gives us consciousness. Yet even with thousands of scientific publications each year, we seem to still be only scratching the surface of least understood part of the human body.