Oxford Prospect April

Oxford Prospect is a current affairs, lifestyle, geopolitical, policy and business news magazine based in Oxford. Part of this site is restricted to subscribers. Inside April’s edition:    Spring TREASURES FROM A GOLDEN AGE. Australia Landscape: Kew at the British Museum Greek Cookery Class Easter Special Daffodil Time. Theatre Bronte at Oxford Playhouse Films Cool it – Bjorn Lomborg Music Russian quartet to perform in Oxford  Shopping Headington Farmers’ Market. Food Enjoy an extravagant Easter with Courvoisier Festivals A look at Oxford Literary Festival and Oxfordshire Artweeks 2011 Energy Book Review Natural Gas Markets in the Middle East & North Africa   Energy Norway: Europe’s Powerhouse?   Japan’s natural disaster will boost demand for LNG Imports.  Our unpredictable, bright energy future Does local content policies – work in economic development? Europe gains from difficulties in Turkmen-China Energy Deal The EU’s energy infrastructure plans: where will the money come from? Science In search of extra solar planets! Technology Xara Web Designer 7 Sport Bring a friend for free for Badminton sessions at leisure centres Travel Fall in love with New England Business Top 10 Management Myths A question of leadership -why looking at alternative approaches – can be a sign of strength! Greek shipping magnates navigate troubled waters http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-0955871448637294&format=200x200_as&output=html&h=200&w=200&lmt=1302991225&ad_type=text_image&ea=0&color_bg=FFFFFF&color_border=336699&color_link=0000FF&color_text=000000&color_url=008000&flash=10.2.152.26&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oxfordprospect.co.uk%2F&ui=rc%3A10&dt=1302991225168&shv=r20110406&jsv=r20110412&saldr=1&correlator=1302991226198&frm=0&adk=4185908689&ga_vid=1095991734.1302991226&ga_sid=1302991226&ga_hid=504925294&ga_fc=0&u_tz=60&u_his=0&u_java=1&u_h=768&u_w=1360&u_ah=728&u_aw=1360&u_cd=32&u_nplug=0&u_nmime=0&biw=1339&bih=532&fu=0&ifi=1&dtd=1105

Australia Landscape: Kew at the British Museum

Australia Landscape: Kew at the British Museum

 

“21 April – 16 October 2011 Museum Forecourt “

Admission Free

The Landscape forms part of Australian Season – a series of exhibitions and events at the British Museum focusing on Australia from April – October 2011. Australian Season is supported by Rio Tinto.

Australia Landscape on the West Lawn of the British Museum Forecourt takes the visitor on a journey across the whole Australian continent by featuring unique and rare plants from its differing climates, and showcasing its rich biodiversity. This is the fourth landscape in a five-year partnership programme involving the British Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, which celebrates the shared vision of both institutions to strengthen cultural understanding and support biodiversity conservation across the world.

http://www.oxfordprospect.co.uk/Australia-Landscape-Kew-at-the-British-Museum.html

TREASURES FROM A GOLDEN AGE.

“Heracles to Alexander the Great: Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon, a Hellenic Kingdom in the Age of Democracy. Ashmolean Museum.” 

Julia Gasper 12 April

Alexander the Great, the fabled conqueror who vanquished the world and then died young, is one of the most celebrated figures of ancient history, but how much do we know about his kingdom of Macedonia, where his ancestors had ruled for centuries before him? In recent times, there has been intensive excavation in the area, and a royal palace together with many magnificent tombs, has been discovered. It is these which have yielded the treasures in the present exhibition and if we thought Macedonia was merely a military power, we must think again. http://www.oxfordprospect.co.uk/TREASURES-FROM-A-GOLDEN-AGE.html

A look at Spring in Oxford

Daffodil Time.

Julia Gasper 6 July 2011 I sometimes think that if we had to have only one flower in the whole year – a sort of Desert Island flower – it would have to be the daffodil. Nothing else quite so joyously announces that Spring has come around again. This year I have been noticing how the fancy varieties of daffodil are getting more and more predominant until you can hardly find any of the ordinary, old-fashioned, plain ones, by which I mean yellow daffodils, with a trumpet in the middle, and just a single, not a double flower. There are every other possible kind to be seen – many of them white, which are all very well for contrast now and then, but not really as cheerful as the familiar golden daffodil of childhood memory. There are white daffodils with a yellow middle, or a flat orange middle, looking like a fried egg, and there are those fussy little white narcissi, with several heads on one stalk. I have even seen some so-called daffodils that look like chrysanthemums, with spiky petals sticking out in all directions – whatever is the point of that http://www.oxfordprospect.co.uk/Daffodil-Time.html

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