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Woodstock Literary Festival preview

9:45am Thursday 9th September 2010

MAGGIE HARTFORD looks at some of the highlights of the Woodstock Literary Festival

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House of Ghosts: New Theatre

9:48am Thursday 9th September 2010

GILES WOODFORDE talks to Colin Baker about the challenges of being the ‘new’ Inspector Morse

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Beauty and the Beast: Theatre, Chipping Norton

9:50am Thursday 9th September 2010

A panto preview in the summer? What is GILES WOODFORDE thinking of?

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Woodstock Literary Festival; History of the Royal Park

9:43am Thursday 9th September 2010

CHRIS KOENIG on one of the local highlights of the Independent Woodstock Literary Festival

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The Depreciation Guild: Jericho Tavern

8:10am Thursday 9th September 2010

It must be dispiriting to come all the way from Brooklyn to play to only 30 people, but, as the Depreciation Guild singer Kurt Feldman is keen to stress, it is a Sunday night. It could have been a lot worse as this gig was never going to attract a massive crowd, the Depreciation Guild have quietly released two albums in their four year career and have yet to make it beyond indie fanatics in building a fanbase. This doesn’t mean, however that they and indeed their set at the Jericho isn’t worth being seen by a lot more people.

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Book celebrates Greek food

7:30am Thursday 9th September 2010

Thousands of cookery books are published every year, but very few stand the test of time. However, Rosemary Barron’s Flavours of Greece, which has recently been republished by Grub Street Press (£18.99) as a stylish hardback, is one such book which has now become accepted as a classic. Never out of print, this superb publication is proving as popular now as it was when it first appeared in 1991.

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Blue mood

7:30am Thursday 9th September 2010

I have always enjoyed growing succulents, those plants with the fleshy leaves that usually come in shades of grey and silver.

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Whites can prove an autumn warmer

7:30am Thursday 9th September 2010

I cannot believe that as I write I am listening to the dulcet tones of the dodgy 30-year old boiler kicking into action and pulling out months-old receipts from my fleece pockets. Autumn has arrived.

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Planning a city for God on earth

7:20am Thursday 9th September 2010

Here’s a thought: had Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) had his way back in August 1864, Pope Benedict XV1 might later this month be beatifying him here in Oxford instead of in Birmingham.

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