The Decade that Taste Forgot? That is the question posed in the title of the latest exhibition at the Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock. Readers who remember the flowered shirts, flared trousers, nylon bedspreads and the psychedelic curtains of the period may agree with the proposition.
Think of the low-budget horror movie The Blair Witch Project and you will have an idea what John Ballam's birthplace looks like. The film was made in the woods near his family farm in the quaintly-named village of Harmony in Maryland, USA.
Hamish Vigne Christie Paul - better known to his many fans as Korky was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1951, one of seven children.
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.
When the Ashmolean Museum moved to its present site in Beaumont Street, its original building in Broad Street became home to the world's first Museum of the History of Science.
One of the world's greatest photographers returns to Oxfordshire, writes SYLVIA VETTA.
The V&A celebrates Dior and the other innovative designers who brightened up austerity Britain, writes SYLVIA VETTA.
The craftsmanship of Whitefriars glass inspired by Scandanavian design is the feature of this year's Country Seat exhibition, writes SYLVIA VETTA.
SYLVIA VETTA talks to the Chinese artist Qu lei lei about The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Warriors at the British Museum.
SYLVIA VETTA visits the Royal Academy's Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution exhibition.