Middle age spread

5:33pm Friday 28th March 2008

Julie Webb previews the medieval extravaganza coming up at the Museum of Oxford

	A real racer
	4:59pm Fri 28 Mar 08
	B rian Cook is one of those competitors who would go racing just to take part as much as to win. Yet this modesty belies his achievement.

	Double jubilee
	11:00am Fri 7 Mar 08
	Julie Webb discovers how the Vale and Downland Museum is much more than a collection of artefacts

	Miss Preston’s hidden treasures
	4:09pm Wed 5 Mar 08
	Theresa Thompson uncovers the fascinating story of lost 15th century masterpieces

	The Oxford flier
	11:45am Fri 29 Feb 08
	There were few Oxfordshire stars in motor sport who shone as brilliantly as John Avery in his chosen pursuit of scrambling, or motocross as it came to be known.

	Jim takes his time
	11:01am Tue 12 Feb 08
	Continuing our new desert island antiques series, Sylvia Vetta talks to Dr Jim Bennett, director of Oxford’s Museum of the History of Science

	Champion of liberty
	2:55pm Mon 11 Feb 08
	Julie Webb vists a celebration of John Milton at Oxford’s Bodleian Library

	Jewel in the crown
	2:28pm Mon 11 Feb 08
	If you were shipwrecked on a desert island, which antique or work of art would you like to discover washed up on the beach? Sylvia Vetta launches a new series, inspired by the long-running radio series Desert Island Discs, by talking to Dr Christopher Brown

Green man gazeteer

2:21pm Monday 11th February 2008

As part of the Oxfordshire 2007 celebrations,Tim Healey made a wide-ranging survey of Green Man figures in the county. An age-old presence the Green Man is often represented as a mysterious leafy mask or a face disgorging foliage

	Trains, bikes and planes
	2:18pm Mon 11 Feb 08
	I first met Dick Tolley in 1974, when he was working for Trevor Goodall Motorcycles in Didcot. His son, Martin, worked there on occasion and always referred to me as 'TRD 78M', the registration number of the 500 Suzuki I purchased from the company during that year.

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