Eat
Carve it, Cook it, Eat it but don’t Bin it! The Oxford Pumpkin Festival parties on with events, meals and tours across the county
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"Every year over a quarter of all Halloween pumpkins end up in landfill – that’s 18,000 tonnes of food waste. Many more pumpkins...
Classical
Kiss Me Kate, Oxford Lieder Festival’s last weekend, Edward Chilvers, Tim Horton and vOx Chamber Choir in this week’s classical round-up
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Kidlington Amateur Operatic Society
KISS ME KATE
Gosford Hill School, Kidlington
Until Saturday, 7.30pm
Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/kidlingtonkaos
Cole Porter’s famously witty take on The Taming of the Shrew is still popular...
Art
Is pottery the new art? Oxford Ceramics Fair is back this weekend with demonstrations and Potters Question Time
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"If you want to see contemporary pottery in its most diverse and accessible form, then Oxford Ceramics Fair is that snapshot," potter Dylan...
See
THE BIG INTERVIEW: Adventurer Simon Reeve talks about America, his mental health and how things could have turned out so differently
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It’s hard to pin down the essence of Simon Reeve because he is such a wonderful mass of contradictions. Having left school with no...
Eat
‘Ello ‘Ello. Try the pumpkin-tastic menu at The White Hart in Fyfield over Halloween
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"At the White Hart, our whole ethos revolves around keeping food miles low, making the most of the produce around us and growing...
See
Local playwright Karim Khan discusses Corrosive, his new play for young people, which explores fear and anger, terror and hate.
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'Corrosive, at its heart, is about a teenage friendship, the kind, that at the time feels as though it will be everlasting and...
Eat
The Milkshed’s Thursday night pop-up supper clubs are back. We talk to owner Lucie Ellis about Cornwall, cookbooks and being a ‘show-off
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We have met early at The Milkshed before service begins, one of my favourite places to eat in Oxfordshire, despite being inauspiciously situated...
Books
Famous author Margaret Atwood on fame, expectation, returning to Gilead, being a ‘literary rockstar’ and her live interview in Oxford
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"There have been many requests for a sequel which I've always said no to," famous author Margaret Atwood explains.
"However, as time moved on,...
Music
Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook talks about raising money for The Trussell Trust anti-poverty charity and foodbank network
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Almost three years ago, deep in the heart of the BBC, Glenn Tilbrook was preparing to perform with Squeeze on The Andrew Marr...
Classical
Meet the musicians: Why the Abbey Chamber Concert series is growing in popularity and ambition
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Fancy a cosy, relaxing Sunday afternoon concert in convivial company, in one of Abingdon’s loveliest churches?
Look no further than the Abbey Chamber Concerts...













