Oxford Castaways

Our March 2015 castaway is the author,broadcaster and journalist Georgina Ferry. Georgina is brilliant at communicating science and telling stories about scientists to non scientists. She is the biographer of Dorothy Hodgkin of whom she said, “She was the least

  Lady Fiona Carnarvon the mistress of the real Downton Abbey is my February 2015 castaway. I took a trip to Highclere Castle to interview her. She is an avid reader and writer. Her books tell the true stories of

Its official ! On Friday, Nancy Hunt was named ‘the most inspirational woman’ in the UK. The Venus Awards were established in 2011 to promote women in business.  In her category Nancy was recognised as the founder of the Nasio

George Harrison of the Beatles gave the name of ‘Legs' to my January 2015 castaway, Larry Smith of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. George also called him King of La-di- Dah and even wrote a song about him. He introduced

Nancy Hunt was born in Kenya.  I urge you to read her inspirational story on the pdf below.Nancy was awarded the NatWest Venus prize for the most inspirational woman in Oxfordshire 2014. Of her mother she said, “You don’t have

My January 2015 castaway is Legs Larry Smith.  He was not only photographed with the Beatles but also appeared in their 1967 film The Magical Mystery Tour. Larry and George Harrison became the best of friends and, in 1975, George wrote a

At a party in Montreal I was asked who I was about to interview. When I replied, ‘You may not have heard of her. My next castaway is Annie Sloan’, I was proved embarrassingly wrong. They not only knew about

I began writing for The Oxford Times in 1998 at about the same time that Christopher Brown arrived in Oxford to take up the post of director of the Ashmolean. The Ashmolean has always been a place where town and