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Dipping into the life of ponds

Gallows Bridge Farm

9:24am Thursday 18th March 2010

Recent research has shown that Britain’s ponds are being lost and neglected. But two organisations have come together to buck the trend, as Mick A’Court from the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) explains

Oxford Jazz Festival

Singer Liane Carroll will be performing at the North Wall, in Summertown

9:19am Thursday 18th March 2010

PAUL MEDLEY looks ahead to the third Oxford Jazz Festival

Melvyn Bragg's upbeat view of the arts

Melvyn Bragg

9:10am Thursday 18th March 2010

Studying at Oxford gave Melvyn Bragg the “elbow room” to find out what sort of life he wanted. “Oxford gave me the space to turn into the sort of person I became,” he said, in that gentle, Cumbrian tone.

Solar by Ian McEwan

8:20am Thursday 18th March 2010

There aren’t many literary novels with a physicist as the hero. McEwan breaks the mould in his latest book, which follows the tribulations of Michael Beard — a fat, short, bearded scientist who is irresistible to women.

TRIALS OF THE DIASPORA by Anthony Julius

8:20am Thursday 18th March 2010

Jews were expelled from England in 1290 and only allowed back in Cromwell’s time, so we can be sure that Chaucer and Shakespeare, when they wrote The Prioress’s Tale and The Merchant of Venice, had never seen one.

Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?

8:20am Thursday 18th March 2010

For 200 years after Shakespeare’s death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays.

Parky at the Pictures (In Cinemas 18/3/2010)

7:52am Thursday 18th March 2010

Reviews of 16th London Australian Film Festival; 14th Human Rights Watch Film Festival; and 24th London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

Parky at the Pictures (DVD 18/3/2010)

7:48am Thursday 18th March 2010

Reviews of Lucía; Séraphine; The White Ribbon; The Sea Wall; À Nos Amours; Sous le Soleil de Satan; Un Jeu Brutal; De Bruit et de Fureur; The First Day of the Rest of Your Life; Don't Worry About Me; Conspiracy of Silence; and Goodbye Solo

Unscrambling the objection to wine with your eggs

Unscrambling the objection to wine with your eggs

6:30am Thursday 18th March 2010

SARAH McCLEERY wonders what wines match egg dishes

Wines of Argentina, £95

Wines of Argentina, £95

6:30am Thursday 18th March 2010

The Wines of Argentina offer costs £95 and includes three bottles each of Tapiz Torrontes 2008; La Linda Viognier 2008; Tapiz Syrah 2006; and Linda Malbec 2007.




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