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History of MI6
5:01pm Friday 30th July 2010
Sword-stick assassinations; the slow torture of Rasputin, found with his testicles crushed; a sack tied to a door, containing the remains of a secret agent. Michael Smith’s latest book, Six: A History of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, doesn’t stint on violence. He said: “People have accused me of exaggerating, because the subtitle is Murder and Mayhem, but it’s all there in the facts.”
Oxford Philomusica International Piano Festival
6:50am Thursday 29th July 2010
NICOLA LISLE previews next month’s Oxford Philomusica International Piano Festival
Local author
8:50am Thursday 29th July 2010
Oxford health writer Kate Coxon, who has two children with coeliac disease, has written Coeliac Disease: The Essential Guide (Need2Know, £9.99) to help people living with the condition. It includes diagnosis, advice on avoiding gluten and how to lead a normal social life, as well as recipes.
History choice
8:50am Thursday 29th July 2010
The Pursuit Peter Smalley (Century, £18.99) As sea adventurers go, Captain James Rennie is a fathom ahead of most heroes serving before the mast. His ship, HMS Expedient, has already survived many actions and now he is headed for the Norwegian fjords and stormy Atlantic in pursuit of an armed vessel connected with revolutionary France. Always on a secret voyage at the behest of his Georgian spymasters, Rennie is pretty much like Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe on land. Smalley has created a character born to the sea, always jousting with his friend Lieutenant James Hayter, but forming a formidable duo with him when it comes to action.
New owners for cycle shop 'gem'
8:50am Thursday 29th July 2010
A ‘GEM’ of an Oxford cycle shop has been bought by a young couple in a deal sparked by an article in The Oxford Times.
Bathroom shop 'owed £6,000'
8:50am Thursday 29th July 2010
AN ELECTRICIAN who helped fit out a luxurious bathroom showroom in Headington says he was left unpaid when the owners suddenly closed the shop earlier this month.
Helping hand to improve health of homeless
8:10am Thursday 29th July 2010
Most of us think homelessness is something that happens to other people. Yet when you hear the stories of homeless people in Oxford, you realise that many end up in this situation due to circumstances that could happen to any of us. The credit crunch and recession has forced thousands out of work, into debt and out of their homes.
Parky at the Pictures (DVD 29/7/2010)
7:42am Thursday 29th July 2010
Reviews of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; Lizard in a Woman's Skin; Living Dead at Manchester Morgue; Revanche; Fish Story; No One Knows About Persian Cats; Women Without Men; The Unpolished; and Don't Look Down
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