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Wednesday 15 November 2023
The St. Francis window in Christ Church Cathedral
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To Oxford, on St Frideswide’s Day , for Christ Church Cathedral’s annual Patronal Eucharist with its traditional procession to the shrine o...
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Wednesday 21 June 2023
Paris, ‘patrimonie’ and roofs
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We have just returned from a week’s holiday in Paris and Versailles. Before setting off I read the second most exhilarating book I have enco...
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Monday 1 May 2023
At Cheltenham Jazz festival: ‘the natural noise of good'
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'I rather like being on the edge of things’, says Philip Larkin at the start of a BBC Monitor programme, Down Cemetery Road , made i...
Saturday 29 April 2023
Yet Sit and See: on the Choruses in Shakespeare’s 'Henry V'
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Whenever I think about Henry V , I think about Monmouth /Trefynwy , the Welsh border town where Henry was born and where (long ago) I ...
Wednesday 22 February 2023
A Toast to Tom
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To Oxford, for the funeral of one of our oldest friends. The Crematorium Chapel is full to overflowing, for it is a sad fact that the younge...
Thursday 22 September 2022
'Our Speaker Tonight’: a lecture tour in Germany
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September 2022 has been a momentous month, and already it seems more than two weeks since my recent lecture tour to Germany. This was my s...
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