I mention Icolyn in the video lecture I was asked to give on Oxford Castaways to the Oxford Guild of (tour) Guides. When her husband died , Icolyn took on three jobs to keep her family afloat Despite having no
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NvrzUnGE50 The gulf between Town and Gown in Oxford is symbolised by the St Scholastica Day riots on 10 February 1355. The divisions are no longer violent but the old colleges are surrounded by walls and the old city was
In these lock-down days, doing puzzles is one way of keeping the grey cells active. For ten years, I had the privilege of sending amazing people from Town, Gown and County to my mythical island of Oxtopia. Among them were
HOW DID IT ALL BEGIN IN 2007 ? (Scroll down to find SOME of the 120 inspirational life stories I had the privilege to record. See who interests you & click on the PDF ) I am a fan of
What a taste of nostalgia - a nostalgic ride! Tony Morris is part of the Oxford Indie Book Fair and he wrote to me about his web site morrisoxford.co.uk. I replied that I ridden in a fabulous Morris Oxford with
Peter Hennessee says we will enter an AC world –ie AFTER CORONA VIRUS .What will that AC world look like? Can we sustain the arts that connect us? Will freelance artists, actors, musicians , journalists and performance poets survive ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brqJicOmT4w This video is of Nancy Hunt with whom I am writing my third novel set in London and Kenya. Writing in collaboration is a new and wonderful experience.Its normal in screen writing but rare in fiction In Sculpting the
Just listened to my friend Ray Foulk on the Today Programme describing how he stole Dylan from Woodstock . It is the 50th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival but the most famous and elusive artist of the time was not
I spent a delightful Saturday revisiting Chiang Yee -the charming artist who was ‘The Silent Traveller in Oxford etc. I first encountered his books when I ran the Jam Factory (1987-1998) and I loved them. After a symposium at the
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/17546729.oxfords-bill-heine-has-died/ I first met Bill Heine at Radio Oxford in the nineties . As chair of the Thames Valley Art and Antiques Dealers Association I was regularly invited on their antiques phone in programme . .Just as I was leaving