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Creation Theatre: Shakespeare
6:10am Thursday 9th July 2009
GILES WOODFORDE on an exciting new venue for the Creation Theatre Company’s summer of Shakespeare
Have your say »For You by Ian McEwan: Oxford Playhouse
5:20am Thursday 9th July 2009
Ian McEwan tells Giles Woodforde about his opera which is coming to Oxford
Paperback round-up
8:20am Thursday 9th July 2009
The File: A Personal History Timothy Garton Ash (Atlantic, £9.99) This book first came out in 1997, after Oxford historian Prof Garton Ash asked to see the file on him compiled by East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, under Communism. This edition has been reissued with a new afterword, in which the professor reveals his discovery that he was banned from the communist country because the minister for state security took umbrage at an article in the news magazine Der Spiegel. Garton Ash believes recent laws now mean that Britons now have their individual liberty less protected than East Germans. “Of course, Britain is not a Stasi state,” he concludes. “But if the Stasi now serves as a warning ghost, scaring us into action, it will have done some good after all.”
Most beautiful villages
8:10am Thursday 9th July 2009
Picture postcard views of Dorchester represent Oxfordshire’s only entry in The Most Beautiful Villages of England (Thames and Hudson, £14.95.
Ox-Tales
8:10am Thursday 9th July 2009
If you have a spare £20, you could do a lot worse than buy the complete set of Ox-Tales, produced in aid of Oxfam. These are four collections of short stories contributed by renowned writers, and they have been gathered into four separate themes — earth, air, fire and water.
Flora's villages
8:10am Thursday 9th July 2009
The popularity of the TV series Lark Rise to Candleford, about turn-of-the-century life in rural North Oxfordshire, has inspired the latest book by local historian Martin Greenwood.
Centre is wild about education
5:10pm Wednesday 8th July 2009
Sutton Courtenay Environmental Education Centre has grown up from humble beginnings as an outdoor space for local school children, to an exciting and innovative centre at the top of its field: learning about the environment outside the classroom. COLBY BENARI reports
Making a fuss about the wines of Beaujolais
3:20pm Wednesday 8th July 2009
SARAH McCLEERY sings the praises of the elegant reds of Beaujolais
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