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Folk girl Jackie Oates Waking up to lullabies

10:44am Thursday 18th April 2013

Tim Hughes speaks to Jackie Oates ahead of her Oxford Folk Weekend gig

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For art's sake: jazz and cider are a match made in heaven

4:07pm Thursday 21st February 2013

Tim Hughes feels Rabbit Foot’s venture into cider is a match made in heaven for those wanting to hop on the dancefloor

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Shazia Mirza: Beyond the veil

11:13am Thursday 31st January 2013

Katherine MacAlister talks faith, home and comedy with Shazia Mirza ahead of her return to ‘intellectual’ Oxford

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Beverley chills

11:47am Thursday 24th January 2013

Katherine MacAlister talks to Hannah Waterman about her upcoming turn as hideous hostess Beverley in a new stage version of Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party

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2012: Reflections on a cracking year of live music in Oxfordshire

11:30am Monday 31st December 2012

Tim Hughes has been watching bands everywhere from a cowshed to a crypt in 2012. He shares his most memorable moments . . . including Rufus Wainwright in a loin cloth

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Making waves - Towan Valley is Cornish paradise

5:54pm Friday 7th December 2012

We were clambering along the bare knuckle of one of Porthtowan's cliffs when the storm hit.Not just a dousing of English rain, but the full force of Mother Nature chasing in, throwing a whole bruised sky at us. And, with nowhere to hide, I just got soaked, took my wet jeans off and - um, how to say this without being sectioned? - listened to the voices.

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Gaz Coombes is better than Alright

1:49pm Thursday 25th October 2012

Gaz Coombes talks to Tim Hughes about life outside Supergrass - and being back where he belongs

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The Sayle of the century

3:21pm Thursday 4th October 2012

There seems to be a trend adopted by comedians — good ones anyway. They start out, work ferociously hard to get to where they want to, tour relentlessly, do TV and then burn out and stop, bored of the nomadic loneliness of stand-up. But after years in the wilderness, the itch just won’t go away. It gets worse with every year of exile until, unable to contain themselves, they’re forced back on stage, older and wiser. This has been the case recently with Stephen Merchant, Paul Merton, Alan Davies and now Alexei Sayle, who last toured in anger last century.

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