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My Wonderful Day: Oxford Playhouse

6:20am Thursday 4th February 2010

Playwright Alan Ayckbourn talks to NICK UTECHIN about My Wonderful Day, which comes to the Playhouse next week

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Crisis of Brilliance

8:50am Thursday 4th February 2010

A photograph of a picnic taken in 1912 inspired David Boyd Haycock to write A Crisis of Brilliance. The moment he saw the group of young artists from the Slade School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, gathered together for a formal picture, he knew he had to write about their experiences before and during the First World War.

You can now try a Japanese wine with your sushi

6:40am Thursday 4th February 2010

SARAH McCLEERY on wines from the Koshu grape

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Prosecco and Pinot Grigio, £76

6:40am Thursday 4th February 2010

The Prosecco and Pinot Grigio case costs £76 and includes three bottles each of Prosecco Frizzante La Delfina NV; Prosecco Sacchetto NV; Dry River Pinot Grigio 2008, Australia; and Matra Hill Pinot Grigio Blush 2007, Hungary.

What's Up Folk

4:18pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010

JULIE WEBB talks to members of What’s Up Folk, a new band on the Oxfordshire scene composed of pupils from an Abingdon school

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Bat is winging its way back

4:14pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010

PETER BARRINGTON discovers that the rare lesser horseshoe bat is returning to Oxfordshire after several decades of absence

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