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SUMMARY:John Robins: Thirst - In Conversation
DESCRIPTION:What is an alcoholic? \nJohn will be heading out on tour to celebrate the publication of his beautifully written\, moving and darkly funny forthcoming memoir\, Thirst. He will tell the story of his life through the lens of alcohol\, the drinks that made him\, and those that broke him. From his earliest drinking experiences – pretending to be drunk after a sip of champagne aged five\, spraying aftershave into his mouth at the school play afterparty\, and university nights spent downing red wine alone in his room – to his last drink in 2022 and the journey into sobriety that followed\, John will explore our relationship with alcohol through reflections on decades of his own drinking. \nFrom hazy memory to sudden clarity he sheds light on subjects from mental health to friendship\, from creativity to the lies we tell ourselves\, and answers questions such as: are alcoholics born or made? How can we make sense of youthful missteps? And can Buddhism provide relief when dealing with haemorrhoids? \nJohn will share insights and epiphanies from the world of addiction and recovery\, blending his trademark raw honesty and hilarious digressions with the collective wisdom of alcoholics and those around them to offer a compelling\, powerful and morbidly funny narrative for anyone who has ever asked ‘why do we drink?’\, ‘why do I drink?’ or ‘do I drink too much?’. \nThis event will include a special guest interviewer at each event\, a rare opportunity for you to put your own questions to John and a chance to purchase a signed copy of Thirst. \nJOHN ROBINS is a radio presenter\, comedian\, Taskmaster champion\, and podcaster (How Do You Cope?\, The Elis James and John Robins Show\, Beef’s Golf Club\, The Moon Under Water). John has won the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award for ‘Best Show’ (2017); ‘Funniest Show’ at the ARIAS for his Radio 5 Live show with Elis James (2020); ‘UK Podcast of the Year’ for the mental health podcast How Do You Cope? (2021). \nThroughout his stand-up and radio career he has gained a reputation for speaking candidly and hilariously about his own mental health. In 2024 he won the ‘Radio Times Moment Of The Year’ award at the ARIAS after revealing his struggles with alcohol on How Do You Cope?. His conversation with Adrian Chiles on abstinence vs moderation was one of the most shared articles on The Guardian website and his 2024 nationwide tour\, Howl\, about addiction and recovery received critical acclaim. \nThirst: Twelve Drinks That Changed My Life will be published by Viking on 7th May 2026 \n\nTicket Information \n\nStandard Tickets: £22.50\nPremium ticket including book: £35.50\nSuitable for ages 14+\, with possible strong language and adult themes\nDoors open 18:30\nBook signing will commence at 22:00\nLatecomers to be permitted during the interval at 19:45\nFor ticketing queries\, please contact ticketing@crosstownconcerts.com
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LOCATION:Sheldonian Theatre\, Sheldonian Theatre\, Broad Street\, Oxford\, England\, OX1 3AZ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Jackie Morris & Robert Macfarlane THE BOOK OF BIRDS
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Sheldonian Theatre for an evening with Jackie Morris & Robert MacFarlane talking about their latest collaboration. \n\n\n\n\nThe Book of Birds \nFrom the creators of the internationally bestselling\, award-winning\, multi-adapted phenomenon The Lost Words: a dazzling celebration of birdlife in Britain\, re-imagining the classic field guide for a new generation of nature lovers \nA great thinning of the skies is underway. Around 50% of bird species are in decline worldwide. Our dawns and springs are quieter each year than the last. An almost unimaginable abundance has been lost. It does not have to be this way — but we will not save what we do not love. \nThe Book of Birds is a compendium of forty-nine bird species\, from Avocet to Yellowhammer\, all of which are presently declining or endangered in Britain. Inspired by the classic bird-books with which the authors grew up\, this is a field guide with a difference. It asks not ‘What is that bird?’\, but ‘Who is that bird?’ It shows its readers how to identify birds\, but also how to identify with them. \nWith lyrical precision and playfulness\, Robert Macfarlane evokes each bird’s habits and habitats — their patterns of flight and of song\, how they hunt and gather\, how they nest and raise their young\, the stories and myths which attend them\, the threats which shadow them\, and how their wild lives intersect with our own. And on every page we encounter Jackie Morris’s exhilarating artwork\, painted in watercolour and gold and animated by an extraordinary attention to detail and sense of life. Set among this dazzling flock of species are seven sections celebrating the ‘Seven Wonders’ that together make up the everyday miracle of ‘Bird’: Nest\, Egg\, Beak\, Song\, Feather\, Flight and Migration. \nSeven years in the making\, The Book of Birds is a love letter to the splendours and mysteries of birdlife\, and a clarion call to halt the loss of birds from land\, sea and sky. From Dipper to Dunnock and Kestrel to Kingfisher\, from mountain to ocean and city to river\, Jackie Morris and Robert Macfarlane conjure the unique spirit and lifeway of each species. This is a book to be treasured by bird-lovers of all ages\, and a future classic work of reference. \nJackie Morris \nJackie Morris is a british artist and grew up in the Vale of Evesham. She studied at Hereford College of Arts and at Bath Academy and currently lives in a cottage on the cliffs of Pembrokeshire. Jackie has illustrated for the New Statesman\, Independent and Guardian. She has collaborated with Ted Hughes\, and has written & illustrated over forty books\, including beloved classics such as The Snow Leopard\, The Ice Bear\, Song of the Golden Hare\, Tell Me a Dragon\, East of the Sun\, West of the Moon\, The Wild Swans and The Unwinding. \nIn 2017 the internationally acclaimed The Lost Words\, a collaboration with Robert Macfarlane\, was released and followed up with The Lost Spells in 2020. Jackie Morris has appeared\, painting live on a big screen\, at Spell Song Concerts at numerous venues including The Royal Festival Hall\, The Royal Albert Hall\, and the International Hay Festival and in 2021 from The Natural History Museum. Jackie Morris was awarded The Hay Medal for Illustration 2018 and the CLIK Kate Greenaway Medal 2019 for The Lost Words. \nRobert Macfarlane \nRobert Macfarlane is Professor of Literature and the Environmental Humanities at the Faculty of English in Cambridge. He is well-known as a writer about nature\, climate\, landscape\, people and place\, and his books –– which include Underland (2019)\, a book-length prose-poem Ness (2018)\, Landmarks (2015)\, The Old Ways (2012) and Mountains of the Mind (2003) –– have been translated into more than thirty languages\, won prizes around the world\, and been widely adapted for music\, film\, television\, radio and theatre. \nHe has also written operas\, plays\, and films including River (2022) and Mountain (2017)\, both narrated by Willem Dafoe. He has collaborated closely with artists including Olafur Eliasson and Stanley Donwood\, and with the artist Jackie Morris he co-created the internationally bestselling books of nature-poetry and art\, The Lost Words (2017) and The Lost Spells (2020). As a lyricist\, he has written songs and albums with musicians including Cosmo Sheldrake\, Karine Polwart and Johnny Flynn\, with whom he has released two albums\, Lost In The Cedar Wood (2021) and The Moon Also Rises (2023) and an EP\, Six Signs (2022). In 2022\, with the actor-director Simon McBurney he co-adapted Susan Cooper’s classic fantasy novel The Dark Is Rising into a twelve-part BBC audio drama series. \nHe is a Fellow of Emmanuel College and of the Royal Society of Literature. In 2017 the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the EM Forster Prize for Literature\, and in 2023 in Toronto he was awarded the inaugural Weston International Award for career achievement in non-fiction. His latest book is entitled Is a River Alive? and concerns the lives and deaths of rivers and the global Rights of Nature movement.
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LOCATION:Sheldonian Theatre\, Sheldonian Theatre\, Broad Street\, Oxford\, England\, OX1 3AZ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra - Sir John Rutter Birthday celebration
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the birthday of composer and conductor Sir John Rutter\nGrieg Holberg Suite\, Op. 40\nBach Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C minor\, BWV 1060R\nRutter Suite for Strings\nRutter Suite Antique\nDelius Two Aquarelles\nElgar Introduction and Allegro for Strings\, Op. 47 \nSir John Rutter conductor \nJoin the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra for a joyful evening celebrating a significant birthday of one of Britain’s most beloved composers and conductors\, Sir John Rutter. A cherished friend of the Orchestra\, John returns to the podium to lead a programme featuring his celebrated works. \n  \n\n  \nTicket Information \n\nFull price tickets: £18\, £30\, £40\, £54\n£5 tickets for students/under-18s in the Upper Galleries and £5 off any other price band\, 50% off for Disabled/Carer tickets (phone only)\nAge range: 6+\nDoors open at 18:30\nThis concert will be 120 minutes with an interval\nLatecomers to be permitted at an appropriate pause in the music\nFor ticketing queries\, please contact 01865 980980
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/oxford-philharmonic-orchestra-sir-john-rutter-birthday-celebration/
LOCATION:Sheldonian Theatre\, Sheldonian Theatre\, Broad Street\, Oxford\, England\, OX1 3AZ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra - Sibelius Symphony No. 2
DESCRIPTION:Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin\nSaint-Saëns Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor\, Op. 61\nSibelius Symphony No. 2 in D major\, Op. 43 \nAlexandra Conunova violin\nAndreas Ottensamer conductor \nAfter writing two light but entertaining violin concertos\, Saint-Saëns upped his game in 1880. In his Violin Concerto No. 3\, he delivered a deliciously scored masterpiece characterised by its brilliant solo part\, building intensity\, room-stilling slow movement and finale inspired by the music of the country it was written in: Spain. Alexandra Conunova plays perhaps the greatest French violin concerto in between music that finds hope from grief: Ravel’s etched memorials to fallen comrades and the symphony in which Sibelius wrestles the most inspiring optimism from music born of tragedy. \n  \n\n  \nTicket Information \n\nFull price tickets: £15\, £28\, £38\, £48\n£5 tickets for students/under-18s in the Upper Galleries and £5 off any other price band\, 50% off for Disabled/Carer tickets (phone only)\nAge range: 6+\nDoors open at 18:30\nThis concert will be 120 minutes with an interval\nLatecomers to be permitted at an appropriate pause in the music\nFor ticketing queries\, please contact 01865 980980
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/oxford-philharmonic-orchestra-sibelius-symphony-no-2/
LOCATION:Sheldonian Theatre\, Sheldonian Theatre\, Broad Street\, Oxford\, England\, OX1 3AZ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra - Hough Plays Hough
DESCRIPTION:Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis\nStephen Hough Piano Concerto\, ‘The World of Yesterday’\nBrahms Symphony No. 2 in D major\, Op. 73 \nSir Stephen Hough piano\nMarios Papadopoulos conductor \nJohannes Brahms looked out over an Austrian lake as he worked on his Symphony No. 2. The music captures the menacing yet mellifluous view of nature he saw\, as the passing clouds of day gave way to the infinite beauty of the sunset\, the dark stillness of night and a glorious awakening to a new day. Before this\, Sir Stephen Hough joins Marios Papadopoulos and the orchestra for a performance of his own piano concerto\, a work ‘of jaw-dropping complexity and finger-crunching virtuosity’ for orchestra and pianist\, in the words of one critic. The concert opens with purifying music by Ralph Vaughan Williams: his serene and somehow wholly English Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. \n\n  \nTicket Information \n\nFull price tickets: £20\, £32\, £42\, £60\n£5 tickets for students/under-18s in the Upper Galleries and £5 off any other price band\, 50% off for Disabled/Carer tickets (phone only)\nAge range: 6+\nDoors open at 19:00\nThis concert will be 120 minutes with an interval\nLatecomers to be permitted at an appropriate pause in the music\nFor ticketing queries\, please contact 01865 980980
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/oxford-philharmonic-orchestra-hough-plays-hough/
LOCATION:Sheldonian Theatre\, Sheldonian Theatre\, Broad Street\, Oxford\, England\, OX1 3AZ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra - Daniel Harding Conducts
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an unforgettable performance with acclaimed conductor Daniel Harding\nTchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor\, Op. 23\nDvořák Symphony No. 8 in G major\, Op. 88 \nTony Siqi Yun piano\nDaniel Harding conductor \nJoin us for an unforgettable performance as the acclaimed conductor Daniel Harding leads the Orchestra in a programme that promises to blend musical depth with dramatic flair. Harding\, known for his dynamic interpretations\, brings fresh energy to this prestigious ensemble\, creating a perfect fusion of talent and tradition. ‘First-rate talent’ (Cadenza NYC) Tony Siqi Yun takes to the stage for the Tchaikovsky’s iconic first piano concerto\, followed by the joyful and triumphant Symphony No. 8 by Dvořák. \n  \n\n  \nTicket Information \n\nFull price tickets: £20\, £32\, £42\, £60\n£5 tickets for students/under-18s in the Upper Galleries and £5 off any other price band\nAge range: 6+\nDoors open at 18:30\nThis concert will be 120 minutes with an interval\nLatecomers to be permitted at an appropriate pause in the music\nFor ticketing queries\, please contact 01865 980980\n\n 
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/oxford-philharmonic-orchestra-daniel-harding-conducts/
LOCATION:Sheldonian Theatre\, Sheldonian Theatre\, Broad Street\, Oxford\, England\, OX1 3AZ\, United Kingdom
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