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Greek Rugby
Internationals
Twin brothers Mark and William Martin,
OAs 2001, whose mother is Greek, have
recently been capped for the Greek national
rugby team, playing international matches
against Finland, Bulgaria, Cyprus and
Israel. Mark, a Maritime Business graduate
of Southampton Solent University, is a
shipbroker in Athens whilst William has just
graduated in Politics and Economics from
Bath University.
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OAs at the Oxford Playhouse
Full Circle
– an evening of conversation, debate and laughter in the company of Tom
Hollander, OA 1984, David Mitchell, OA 1992 and Sister Frances Dominica in aid of
Helen and Douglas House
.
6.30 pm Sunday 2 October
Earthquakes in London
by Mike Bartlett, OA 1999, comes to Oxford in October
following last year’s premier at the National Theatre and the Senior Drama
Production in the Amey Theatre in December.
Tuesday 1 – Saturday 5 October
old abingdonians
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Botany: A Blooming
History
Tim Walker, OA 1976, Director of the
University of Oxford Botanic Garden,
presented BBC4’s fascinating and
authoritative three-part series
Botany: A
Blooming History
, the story of how botanists,
in trying to answer the question what makes
plants grow, uncovered the secret to life
on the planet and came to understand the
natural order of the plant world.
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Dr Walker will give a lecture at the School to
the Biology Society on 14 October
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Seen in the Yemen:
Travelling with Freya
Stark and Others
Hugh Leach, OA 1953, gave a talk on18
May at the Royal Society for Asian Affairs
about his travels in the northern Yemen
in the early 1970s, both on his own and
in the company of such distinguished
travellers as Dame Freya Stark, Wilfred
Thesiger and Dame Violet Dickson.
The talk accompanied the launch of
a book of the same title, copiously
illustrated with beautiful black-and-white
photographs taken on his two 1930s
screw-thread Leica cameras, which
evocatively record what seemed to be an
unchanging way of life.
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Rime of the
Modern Mariner
The Rime of the Modern
Mariner
, published by
Jonathan Cape last April,
is a graphic novel by
Nick Hayes, OA 2000,
political cartoonist on the
Guardian. Described as
a beautiful morality tale
for our times, the book
is an update of Coleridge’s epic poem
The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
. Maintaining
the rhythm and beat of the original, together
with its haunting atmosphere, the new
version focuses on the North Pacific Gyre
where a slow-moving whirlpool gradually
masticates the world’s plastic rubbish, said
to cover an area twice the size of Texas and
to be 9 kilometres deep.
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Two of the voices heard in the Westminster Abbey choir at the Royal Wedding
on 29 April belonged to Jerome Finnis, OA 1995, a senior associate in Hogen
Lovell’s International Arbitration Group, and Jonny Herford, OA 2003, who is
currently studying on the opera course at the Royal Academy of Music.
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