The Archivist and the Family Silver
We often take for granted treasures right on our doorstep. One of these Oxfordshire gems is Blnheim Palace, and this month's castaway' is a perfect guide to this World Heritage Site.
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08, 2008
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08, 2008
Light Hearted Look at the Seventies
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.
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07, 2008
Arrowheads of Desire
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.
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05, 2008
Comics, Coca-Cola and Childhood Memories
Hamish Vigne Christie Paul - better known to his many fans as Korky was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1951, one of seven children.
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03, 2008
Bill’s Excellent Adventure
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.
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02, 2008
Jim Takes His Time
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.
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01, 2008
Visual Haiku
One of the world's greatest photographers returns to Oxfordshire, writes SYLVIA VETTA.
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11, 2007
A Decade that Changed the Face of Fashion
The V&A celebrates Dior and the other innovative designers who brightened up austerity Britain, writes SYLVIA VETTA.
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11, 2007
A Glass Act (Whitefriars)
The craftsmanship of Whitefriars glass inspired by Scandanavian design is the feature of this year's Country Seat exhibition, writes SYLVIA VETTA.
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09, 2007
China: The First Emperor
SYLVIA VETTA talks to the Chinese artist Qu lei lei about The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Warriors at the British Museum.