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Toby Jones, OA 1985 plays the self-serving Percy Alleline, ‘Tinker’, in
Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of John le Carré’s
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
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which was released last September.
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Abingdon news
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Toby Jones is ‘Tinker’
The Return of Rev
Rev
, starring Tom Hollander, OA 1985 returned to
BBC2 on 10 November for a second series of this
highly acclaimed comedy. The first series won the
2011 BAFTA for Best Sitcom.
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Phil Selway at the
Pegasus Theatre
Radiohead drummer Phil Selway, OA 1985,
inaugurated Oxford’s Pegasus Theatre’s 50th
anniversary programme, designed to raise money
for its young people’s performing arts’ courses, with
two sell-out concerts at the theatre in November.
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Award for David Mears
David Mears, OA 2011, currently at King’s
College, Cambridge, has won a Cornwell
Scholarship, towards developing his performance
skills. On 20 November, David played the clarinet
in Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro at a concert in
King’s College Chapel.
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Varsity OA
Hong Kong international Sebastian Perkins, OA
2001, played for Oxford in the 130th Varsity match
on 8 December when Oxford beat Cambridge
28-10. Sebastian, who is studying for a PGCE in
Biology, is the second OA in successive years to
play for Oxford.
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Agent Zigzag
In BBC 2’s
Timewatch
on 15 November author
Ben Macintyre, OA 1982, presented the story of
the British wartime agent, Eddie Chapman.
A month earlier Ben’s former history master,
Dr Hubert Zawadzki, appeared in the unlikely
company of Len Goodman in
Who Do You Think
You Are
. Dr Zawadzki was Len Goodman’s
Polish interpreter.
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