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Spiderman heads for lost world
6:40am Thursday 8th January 2009
Two minutes into meeting George McGavin and already I was getting a pretty good idea of what drives this entomologist, explorer, lecturer, author and, in his most recent incarnation, television presenter.
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7:00am Wednesday 31st December 2008
Reg Little takes a look back over the news that made the headlines in Oxfordshire in 2008.
Grand plans for little jewel
6:40am Thursday 18th December 2008
Its place in the history of music is assured, echoing down the ages as the oldest public concert hall in Europe. But to local people the Holywell Music Room is a little 18th-century jewel in the heart of medieval Oxford, built in 1748 to provide acoustic perfection that would stand the test of time.
What next for canal basin?
6:30am Thursday 11th December 2008
The sorry story of the Oxford canal basin is charted in a detailed study that some hope may map out the future of the historic city site that somehow ended up as an eyesore car park.
Boy's Own kind of character
6:10am Thursday 4th December 2008
When Christopher Bulstrode first inquired about joining the army there was laughter at the other end of the telephone.
How one man went over the top
6:10am Thursday 27th November 2008
He had wanted to sail around the world in the wake of the great lone sailors Sir Francis Chichester and Sir Robin Knox-Johnston. In fact, Adrian Flanagan’s bold intention was to follow these heroic yachtsmen into the history books, rather than simply repeat their remarkable solo feats. And somehow you sense that with Mr Flanagan there lurks a desire to achieve things the hard way — the title of his new book Over the Top is well chosen.
Bid to change healthcare for ever
6:50am Thursday 20th November 2008
As a medical student working as a locum doctor, Alastair Buchan can lay claim to the honour of having welcomed the very first acute surgical patient to the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
Inspiration for the Devil's Whore
6:20am Thursday 13th November 2008
So this was where the Devil’s Whore first got down to business. Looking out from her kitchen, Martine Brant gestured towards a sturdy oak tree, where in a certain light, she can almost see a satanic figure sitting astride one of the branches.
A most singular Yank in Oxford
6:40am Thursday 6th November 2008
There has never been anyone in broadcasting like Bill Heine and we can be pretty damn certain there will never be again.
The future of cardiac treatment
6:20am Thursday 30th October 2008
Gordon Brown had driven to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital to bring home his dying mother.
A taste of M. Blanc's life
6:40am Friday 24th October 2008
Raymond Blanc still winces as he recalls the crack on the head that sent him stumbling into a life of exile in Oxfordshire.
People power focuses on Thames
6:30am Friday 17th October 2008
Local Hero can be counted among Lord Puttnam's great successes as a film producer.
Revisiting an ivy-covered age
6:10am Friday 10th October 2008
Brideshead. The very name is enough to have Oxford University admissions tutors reaching for a swift slug of dry sherry.
Remembering the Magic Man
12:52pm Thursday 2nd October 2008
A very senior media executive once told Humphrey Carpenter’s widow: “I would never advise anybody to have Humphrey’s sort of career."
When the nation's men returned
10:18am Friday 26th September 2008
Julie Summers has begun to feel very protective towards the small army of middle aged and elderly women that she repeatedly refers to as "my ladies".
The other talented Yorke boy
6:50am Friday 19th September 2008
His stag night in Kent had left Andy Yorke feeling somewhat under the weather.
New take on tackling dementia
6:20am Friday 12th September 2008
Oliver James famously got in touch with Peter Mandelson's hidden emotions a few years back in a memorable television interview.
Global goings on in local woods
6:27am Friday 5th September 2008
Wytham Woods, an area of ancient, mixed woodland just three miles from the city centre known for its bluebells, badgers and birds, even for featuring in Inspector Morse mysteries, has taken on an ambitious new role.
Documenting dodo's extinction
6:09am Friday 29th August 2008
Dodos are a passion for Anthony Cheke. But then he's also passionate about the broadbilled parrot, burrowing boas, giant tortoises, bats and giant lizards, and countless other animals and plants that are now extinct, but which once existed unchecked on the island of Mauritius.
Street-fighting man
6:34am Friday 22nd August 2008
In the days when heads of state and film stars would wait patiently in line to shake the hand of Muhammad Ali, 'The Greatest' found time to visit a housing estate in Abingdon.
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