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From MG to Nissan
3:29pm Friday 11th July 2008
Readers may have watched and been entertained by the recent TV series The Long Way Down, in which Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman travelled from John O'Groats to South Africa, on motorcycles.
40 years on
3:28pm Tuesday 24th July 2007
Peter Cann talks to Fairport Conventions Simon Nicol as the band prepares to celebrate a significant anniversary
On call for the Doctor
11:27am Monday 16th July 2007
Gill Oliver takes a trip to the fourth dimension to meet Dr Who scriptwriter, Paul Cornell
A rural revolution
11:24am Tuesday 5th June 2007
Sylvia Vetta investigates the tale of a truncheon used to help quell the 18th-century Otmoor rioters
A career cut short
2:54pm Monday 4th June 2007
The illustrations on this page show the diverse talents of one of Oxford's most promising stars of motorcycle road racing during the 1970s. Mick Patrick was well on his way to stardom when a freak accident at the Cadwell Park Circuit, Lincolnshire, ended his life.
Architect of dreaming spires
10:07am Friday 25th May 2007
Tim Healey talks to biographer William Whyte about TG Jackson, the man who remodelled Victorian Oxford
Hub of the home
11:52am Friday 20th April 2007
As TV dinners are losing their appeal and we return to the idea of eating a home-cooked meal together as a family, the kitchen is once again becoming the most important room in the house, writes Geoffrey Hedge
The folding time machine
1:22pm Thursday 15th March 2007
Sylvia Vetta reflects on a simple piece of furniture which became an integral part of Britains wartime effort
Revolution on the land
1:10pm Thursday 15th March 2007
Nicola Lisle follows the blue plaque trail to Crowmarsh and across the county border into Berkshire to track down pioneering 18th-century farmer, Jethro Tull
Out of the shadows
12:55pm Thursday 15th March 2007
Tim Healey continues his quest for the Green Man, meeting Geoffrey Somerset, son of folklorist Lady Raglan
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The Mole and Chicken, Easington, near Thame
One of the pictures on this page gives a good impression of the delights to be enjoyed at the Mole and Chicken on one of those sunny days that now seem as far as can be from our present situation.
Early taste of Christmas wine
Next week is The Oxford Times Wine Club Christmas Tasting and, with just four weeks to go until Christmas Day, it is an excellent opportunity to sample a specially-selected range of wines for the festive season.
Dylan Moran: New Theatre, Oxford
‘I was the first person to discover that if you infected a person with Marmite, he would stand up and bark at the moon.” “Everybody under the age of 35 has the intelligence of raspberry jam.” “Children can hear vegetables hiding.”
Sleeping Beauty, Chipping Norton Theatre
There’s nothing King Couer-de-Loup likes more than a good battle: “We’ll march on King Florizel’s wet and wicked army,” he proclaims. His Queen is not so sure, however. She would rather her husband stayed around: there’s the christening of their daughter Princess Aurora to arrange for a start. And he certainly can’t go out and fight looking like that: “Your chain mail’s got a ladder in it,” she wails.
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