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Chekhov's The Three Sisters: Oxford Playhouse
10:20am Thursday 4th March 2010
NICK UTECHIN talks to cast members from the Playhouse production of Chekhov’s The Three Sisters
A new Requiem by Bob Chilcott
10:24am Thursday 4th March 2010
NICOLA LISLE talks to composer Bob Chilcott about his latest work, shortly to be given its world premiere in Oxford
Volunteering for Wychwood
10:26am Thursday 4th March 2010
A new group has been set up to help conservation work in Oxfordshire, reports PETER BARRINGTON
Chilean case, £72
10:12am Thursday 4th March 2010
The Chilean case costs £72 and includes six bottles each of Nostros Reserva Pinot Noir 2008, Chile; and Rio Alto Classic Merlot 2008, Chile.
Wines of Carolina were not a moving experience
10:00am Thursday 4th March 2010
SARAH McCLEERY tries some wine in the United States
Paperback choice
8:40am Thursday 4th March 2010
Dancing Backwards Salley Vickers (Fourth Estate, £7.99) Vickers has chosen to set her latest novel on a cruise ship, where her heroine, a middle-aged widow called Vi, takes up ballroom dancing with her dashing room steward. A setting that in other hands could herald a crude holiday romance story becomes, with the help of a writer who was once a psychoanalyst, the arena for a cast of characters whose behaviour is patterned by their history. Like Vi, we are forced to endure the boring conversation of a comic cast of fellow passengers during her six-week transatlantic voyage, with the almost farcical interaction this involves. We gradually learn that she is travelling to America to meet an old friend, and she has conveniently packed her old notebooks to read. The story carries us along at a the stately pace of an ocean liner, so that by the end we have forgotten how unlikely the whole thing is. The author will be at the Oxford Literary Festival on March 21.
Double biography of John and Myfanwy Piper
8:40am Thursday 4th March 2010
John Piper was an artist who has touched our lives in many ways: through his illustrations for the Shell guides, his stained glass and tapestries, and through his contribution to post-war debates about planning.
TRESPASS by Rose Tremain
8:30am Thursday 4th March 2010
Trespass by Rose Tremain. In her previous book, The Road Home, Rose Tremain captured the immigrant experience with assured skill, winning the Orange prize. In her latest book, she is still pre-occupied with outsiders, but this time the setting is the unforgiving landscape of the Cevennes, southern France.
Lob by Linda Newbery
8:30am Thursday 4th March 2010
Lob by Linda Newbery. Spring is upon us, Linda Newbery’s latest book Lob celebrates the miracle of growth and rejuvenation (six-plus).
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