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Airfield's role in aviation history
3:20pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010
now fulfilling a commercial role closer to that intended by its original founders than at any time in its 75-year history. Oxford City Council bought the now-familiar airfield lying between the Woodstock and Banbury Roads in 1935 in order to establish something then called the Oxford Municipal Aerodrome.
The ‘iron man’ of Banbury
3:17pm Wednesday 20th January 2010
Nicola Lisle reveals the achievements of Sir Bernhard Samuelson, the industrialist credited with founding modern Banbury
Michael Stanley’s great adventure
3:06pm Wednesday 20th January 2010
Sylvia Vetta meets the director of Oxford’s groundbreaking art gallery
Safari so good!
2:51pm Wednesday 20th January 2010
Denise Barkley experiences wonderful diversity by combining a safari in the South African bush with a city break in Cape Town
Hope springs eternal
2:45pm Wednesday 20th January 2010
Antiques and period features are teamed with contemporary furnishings and opulent luxuries to create the wow factor in this restored 18th-century house in Woodstock, now a glamorous new boutique B&B, decorated by interior designer Jill Treloggen and her team, writes Anne Stabler
The legacy of King Alfred
2:22pm Wednesday 20th January 2010
Julie Webb discovers that there is a lot more to the Wallingford-born monarch than burnt cakes
City of sculpture
2:17pm Wednesday 20th January 2010
Centuries of artistry and imagination await your discovery, writes Philip Opher
From Penny Lane to the Royal Albert Hall
2:12pm Wednesday 20th January 2010
Van Morrison, Robert Plant, Amy Winehouse, James Blunt, Helen ‘Aitch’ McRobbie has worked with them all — and many more. As she prepares to release her first solo album, the singer and songwriter talks to Nick Dent-Robinson about her Liverpool upbringing, her musical career and family life in Oxfordshire
Celebrating the gifts of the Magi
3:22pm Wednesday 6th January 2010
Someone who became Bishop of Poitiers in about 350AD may not seem a likely candidate for much mention in modern-day Oxford, but his name will, probably unwittingly, be much on the lips of undergraduates and dons during the coming week; for he was St Hilary, after whom the university’s winter term is named.
The history of The Theatre, Chipping Norton
1:20pm Tuesday 15th December 2009
Like Dick Whittington, The Theatre at Chipping Norton has prospered on its journey over the past 35 years – since founders John and Tamara Malcolm obtained planning permission to create it in 1974. As with Dick, whenever disaster loomed – in the shape of threatened financial cuts from the Arts Council in 2008 for instance – the theatre company has (so far at least) always managed to “pick itself up, dust itself down, and start all over again”.
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