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
Click the link below to view this article in its original format: Sir Roger and Lady Moyra Bannister - Castaway Sylvia Vetta talks to Sir Roger Bannister on the eve of the 57th anniversary of his record-breaking run at Oxford’s
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
Castaway Victor Glynn’s production ‘Foosball’ has sold to record audiences in South America and will be released in the UK just after the World Cup. It has just won the Goya prize in Spain for the best animated movie. Animated film
Think of any great British actor and it’s a good bet that they have worked on a Victor Glynn production. Nigel Hawthorne, Leo McKern, Judi Dench, Ian Richardson, Nigel Havers, the young Hugh Laurie and even Gandalf! My May 2013
September Castaway My first rock star Colin Greenwood of Radiohead. Colin is Global Ambassador for the inspirational organisation The Children's Radio Foundation. CRF's UK director is Charlotte Bannister Parker is also a resident of Oxtopia. My village of Kennington chose CRF as our 2013
December 2009 Castaway: Bettany Hughes Historian Writer, Broadcaster and opener of The New Ashmolean The five year old Bettany Hughes was one of 1,694,117 people, who saw the golden mask, from the head of the mummy of King Tutankhamen, on display
August castaway - Ike Garson: Ike Garson
