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  Tim Hughes speaks to Jackie Oates ahead of her Oxford Folk Weekend gig
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  Today’s poets can only marvel at John Betjeman’s popularity. By the time he died in 1984, he had sold more than two million copies of his books. He is now remembered for urging the Germans to drop their “friendly bombs” on Slough, as well as his passion for Victorian churches and young ladies playing tennis.
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  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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  Barbara Pym’s characters do not usually go for long walks in the country. The furthest they walk is from their homes in old-fashioned English villages to tea in the vicarage, or to church.
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  Katherine MacAlister talks faith, home and comedy with Shazia Mirza ahead of her return to ‘intellectual’ Oxford
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  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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  Oxford walkers making for the hills often choose the Cotswolds or the Chilterns, so I was intrigued when I saw a walk entitled ‘Oxford Hills and the River Thame’ in a small book called Walking in the Thames Valley.
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           <title>2012: Reflections on a cracking year of live music in Oxfordshire</title>
           
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  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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  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 talks to Tim Hughes about life outside Supergrass - and being back where he belongs
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  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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           <title>Preview of the annual Charles Simonyi Lecture by science guru Luc Steels</title>
           
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  Luc Steels is late for our interview. Apparently there’s an emergency and he needs to postpone. As he’s an expert in developing robot behaviour, I had visions of him trying to contain a James Bond style break-out at his HQ in Barcelona. Disappointingly it turns out to be a personal matter and nothing to worry about.
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