Glitter and the Gold

March 28, 2008

Oxford Brookes University is the most successful of the universities created from former polytechnics. This academic year saw the arrival of Professor Janet Beer to become the University’s first female vice-chancellor.

The voice of our third castaway will be familiar to anyone who listens to Radio Oxford. His phone-in programme every weeknight includes the great and the good and the boy or girl next door. Maybe his American origins give him the easy manner that makes him so approachable.