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WALKING
TOURS
Wednesday 1 April
Wednesday 1 April
Keats’s ‘Eyelashes’:
an Oxford Riverside Walk
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“Lyra’s Oxford”: A Jericho
and Oxford Canal Walk
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With Mark Davies
With Mark Davies
10am / 2 hours 15 mins / Meet at the entrance to
Meadow Buildings, Christ Church / £15.00
A two-mile circular tour of the Thames and its
backwaters in the footsteps of novelists, diarists,
poets, and travellers. Citing numerous authors
of past and present, the enduring importance of
Oxford’s waterways is explained by local historian,
author, and publisher Mark Davies. The route is
generally flat, but with some steps.
Complimentary drink at Aziz Pandesia, Folly Bridge
(5 minutes’ walk from Christ Church) at the end of
the walk.
Wednesday 1 April
Walking Tour
- Inspector Morse Tour
With Alastair Lack
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11am-1pm / Meet outside Balliol College Lodge,
High Street / £15.00
Mention Oxford and dreaming spires, colleges and
quadrangles all come to mind - plus, of course,
Inspector Morse. The television series featuring
John Thaw was based on the novels of Oxford writer
Colin Dexter and remain immensely popular in the
United Kingdom and all over the world. Centred on
the university and city, Inspector Morse and Sergeant
Lewis encounter Head of Houses, dons, murderers
and criminals in the course of their detective work,
pausing only to solve a tricky question over a pint or
two in a favourite pub.
2pm / 2 hours / Meet at Oxford University Press,
Walton Street, Jericho / £15.00
A walk of under two miles, broadly based on Oxford
author Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights and Lyra’s
Oxford, but citing many other authors. The route will
include the literary-rich Victorian suburb of Jericho and
the Oxford Canal (complementing the Inspector Morse
Tour), and finish at Oxford Castle. The tour is led by
local historian, author, and publisher Mark Davies, an
Oxford ‘gyptian’ himself. The route is generally flat,
but with some steps.
Complimentary drink at Aziz Pandesia, Folly Bridge
(5 minutes’ walk from Christ Church) at the end of
the walk.
Thursday 2 April
Walking Tour
- Literary Oxford
With Alastair Lack
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2-4pm / Meet at the entrance to Magdalen College,
High Street / £15.00
Explore Oxford Colleges in the footsteps of famous writers
and poets. Start at Magdalen, home to John Betjeman
and C.S.Lewis, and walk through University College
and Queen’s, ending up at Merton, the College of
Max Beerbohm and T.S. Eliot. On the way enjoy
readings from the poetry and prose of writers who
have lived in and written about the city and the University.
Alastair Lack worked for BBC World Service for
nearly 30 years and was Head of English Programmes.
He also worked in television and for Radio 4.
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