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Readership locations oxfordtimes.co.uk Abingdon The Oxford Times Chipping Norton Banbury Our 150th year Thursday, September 6, 2012 £1.30, or subscribeTheand save: Page 36 OxfordTimes Bicester Bicester Win a £150,000 school bursary Burford WE CELEBRATE OUR 150TH ANNIVERSARY WITH ST EDWARD’S: SEE P14 Carterton PROPERThursday, TY September Revealed: fresh plans 6, 2012 Charlbury oxfordtimes.co Witney 260 .uk/homes Burford for concert hall in city PAGES A40 Chipping Norton NEW SECTIONS School bid to create 1,000-seat The OxfordTimes Didcot PROPERTY oxfordtimes.co.uk/homes auditorium in North Oxford may The OxfordTimesThursday, September 6, 2012 Oxford Join our birthday WEEKEND celebrations at Oxford Castle gig Thursday, September 6, 2012 Your weekly leisure guide MUSIC P4 for music venue INSIDE end long search THEATRE Poetry Cricket radio legend at the comes The Eynsham By Reg Little London at the launch of a school Oxf foundation, the school’s new or times.co.uk NEW dT rlittle@oxford fundraising vehicle. WRITERS imes The project will help complete A THOUSAND-seat concert hall a performing arts complex Faringdon in North Oxford should bring a begun with the creation of the 30-year wait to an end for the North Wall, which contains a city’s music lovers. theatre and dance studios. Architects have started design When the school acquired the Lemon Tree site, it initially ThurWEEKEND work on a concert hall on the sday, Gloucester to build music teaching Funny business September Woodstock Road, with space for planned : Martin rooms, recording studios and an Weedon outside 6, a full orchestra. the former 2012 chestral recital hall. home The £15m scheme, including a or of Ronnie Barker has since NEW LOOK , top right music school, is being put for- But the decision Picture: Merlin made to go instead for this Lyons/E8 Property Yo ward by St Edward’s School, been Solutions ur weekly Join our High Wycombe which will launch a major larger two-phase project, both leisur birthday e guide celebrations fundraising effort at the RAF elements of which are designed 22 WEEKEND listings oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure Thursday, September 6, 2012 Po Club in London’s Piccadilly on by Tim Ronalds Architects, spe- CULTURE SEPT 6-12 Oxford at ComedyArt exhibitions pop, folk, jazz e plays, musicals, comedy galleries, Music classical, Theatr etry Thursday Oxford Newbury Oxford Glee Club: Sat, stand-up with Corn Exchange: Friday, An Art Jericho: Until Sep Castle Oxford: Adam Stowe.Singer/ Copa Audience with the Duke of Windsor 16, Together.Group – covers old and new. Free. Andrew Stanley, Jonny Awsum, – guitarist photography exhibition. 9.30pm. 01865 246906. Jacques Barrett and Tiffany dramatisation about Edward VIII. Stevenson. 7.15pm. £14/£5. Box £14, £12. 7.45pm. Sat, Hat of Doom, Wed-Sun, 11-5pm. 07709 cialists in art centres. Friday office: 0871 472 0400. Andy Hamilton. £16/£14. Sold out. 239 322. Heritage open days. Ashmolean Museum: Crown and Thistle,Abingdon: Jericho Tavern: Until Sep 21, The 7.45pm. Sep 8-9, 9. ,blues.Free. Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 11-4pm. Thurs, Sep 13-Oct 28, College October Loose Covers.Rock, pop Government Inspector .Flintlock 9pm. 01235 522556. Tangomotion.£17/£15. 7.45pm. Commissions: All Souls gig adapted Theatre’s satirical comedy 01635 522733. and New College 2012. Football Club,Didcot: Back to by Nikolai Gogol.7.45pm. 92 Tues-Sun, 10am-6pm. Free. Skool disco.Over-30s.Fancy dress £12.50/£10. 01865 5807 . New Greenham Arts 01865 278002. 07789428795. optional.9pm. £5. tre: Until Sep Auditorium: Fri, Barb Jungr’s Blue North Wall Arts Cen Bartlemas Chapel: Until Dead On Her Feet y Ron Hours – Stockport to Memphis. George and Dragon, Sutton 15, ,b Sat. Lost landscapes. y Barry Kyle. £15/£13. 8pm. Sep 8-9, Heritage Courtenay: Adam Stowe.9pm. Free Hutchinson, directed b 01635 Organised by the 01235 848142. 2.30pm. open days.Sat-Sun 11-5pm. £12/£10/£5. 8pm, Saturday 522733. Campaign to Protect Rural MUSIC school is 01865 319450. music s Arms, Bic: Pete McCray. Soul King’ ee.10am-5pm. Abingdon The £6m England. Fr concert hall and reggae.Free.9pm. 01869 249040. Oxford Playhouse: Until Sep 29, Reading 07587 548 548. The proposed The Mill at Sonning Theatre: Sep £3. Mon- The Mill Arts Centre: Friday, The Oxford Tour audio poetry. Scared To Death, Blenheim Palace: Until aturday, 13-Oct 27, by Ron Shadowers.8pm. £10. 01295 279002. Sat 10am-6pm. Until S Oct 4, OneOak Exhibition. Murder on the Nile atha Christie Aldridge.8.15pm, matinée (Thurs, .Ag 0118 969 8000. 10.30am-5pm. Parks and Port Mahon, Oxford: Nairobi; Theatre Company. 7.30pm, Fri 8pm, Sun) 2.15pm. Empty White Circles and Matt gardens £11.50/£6. legend’ P4 would be built on the former expected to open in 2014 with the Kidlington Lemon Tree restaurant site and £9m concert hall to follow, possi- ats Faringdon M40 neighbouring land occupied by bly by 2017, depending on INSIDE JACK fm radio. fundraising. the Jones said: “We needed to home FREE 28-PAGE The head of St Edward’s, Mr THEA Warden Stephen Jones, said: replace the existing music room, up TRE Oxford “The absence of a concert hall which is 50 years old. But we he SUPPLEMENT family home for Crick prob- recognised there was room to of Ronnie et has been a longstanding is on the mar Barke palace ke r sale radio t. Mr lem for Oxford. 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