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Meadow Buildings, Christ Church
David Timson 618
Sherlock Holmes: From Fiction
to Fact. The Evolution of the
Famous Detective.
2pm / Blue Boar Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
Marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle, actor David Timson considers
the fiction and fact that led to the creation of the
world’s greatest fictional detective: Sherlock Holmes.
Timson, who has read The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Stories for Naxos AudioBooks (60CDs), will illustrate
his talk with readings from Edgar Allan Poe, the
grandfather of crime fiction, and the forgotten
19th-century French writer Emile Gaboriau, creator
of the ‘roman policier’; and, of course, from the
Holmes canon. He will consider also how Holmes
benefited from Doyle’s scientific understanding of
developing forensic methods used by Scotland Yard
in the 1890s. Entertaining and informative!
Sponsored by The Macdonald Randolph Hotel
James Crowden
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interviewed by Hugh Prysor-Jones
Ciderland
2pm / JCR, Christ Church / £10.00
(includes a cider tasting)
In this fascinating talk, poet, writer and cider expert
James Crowden reveals England’s – and Oxford’s -
proud links with the history of cider. Did you know
that English cider makers of the mid-17th century
pioneered the methode champenoise forty years
before Dom Perignon is credited with the invention
of champagne Or that one of the pioneers of
fermented bottled cider was Lord John Scudamore,
a Magdalen College man who went on to become
Charles I’s ambassador in France Shortlisted for
the prestigious André Simon food and drink awards,
Crowden sets out to uncover many of the mysteries
surrounding this most underrated British drink. The
talk will be accompanied by a tasting of ciders from
Burrow Hill (Somerset), Tom Oliver (Herefordshire)
and Andrew Lea (Oxfordshire).
FRIDAY APRIL 2009
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