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Voyage round my father
9:00am Thursday 2nd September 2010
In his long, distinguished writing career Michael Frayn has dipped his quill in the inkwell for many genres. He is most famous as a playwright, creator of the intelligent but commercially triumphant farce Noises Off and probing morality play Copenhagen.
The Longest Winter
9:00am Thursday 2nd September 2010
The Longest Winter Meredith Hooper (John Murray, £20) While Scott was engaged in his fateful race to the South Pole, another group of six men, known as the “eastern party”, were struggling to survive in a man-made ice cave after they rescue ship, the Terra Nova, was forced to abandon them as the sea froze early. Hooper’s book is a study of the six men, isolated in an unbearable winter.
Ibn Saud: The Desert Warrior
8:50am Thursday 2nd September 2010
IBN SAUD: THE DESERT WARRIOR by Michael Darlow & Barbara Bray
Churchill's Finest Hour
8:50am Thursday 2nd September 2010
It is easy to think that everything that could be said about Winston Churchill’s role in the Second World War has already been put into print in the thousands of books that have been written about him.
A sideways look at wine lovers’ favourite films
6:50am Thursday 2nd September 2010
SARAH McCLEERY suggests some films for wine buffs
Argentina offer, £83
6:50am Thursday 2nd September 2010
The Argentina offer costs £83 and includes three bottles each of Santa Rosa Estate Chenin-Torrontes 2009, Zuccardi; La Linda Viognier 2009, Luigi Bosca; Vida Organica Sangiovese/Bonarda 2009, Zuccardi; and La Linda Malbec 2008, Luigi Bosca.
Digging history of Oxfordshire stone
6:10am Thursday 2nd September 2010
PETER BARRINGTON on a project to preserve historic quarries
Alstromeria is worth the effort
6:00am Thursday 2nd September 2010
VAL BOURNE on her troubles with the alstroemeria
The Inn at Farnborough
10:42am Wednesday 1st September 2010
The good sense in eating from a set menu has been nowhere better illustrated for me recently than on a Saturday lunchtime visit to The Inn at Farnborough, near Banbury. Rosemarie enjoyed an excellent three-course meal — seafood chowder, smoked haddock, meringue with lashings of strawberries — which cost just £12.75. That was just a pound more than the price of my starter.
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