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#100 May Day! May Day! Wed 30th Apr 2014

May Day! May Day!

It's Mayday in Oxford and once again Daily Info brings you a run-down of all the best & most verdant events and complete listing of where you can the all-important breakfast (with or without Bloody Mary) after the choristers have sung from Magdalen Tower. Also in this week's episode - Outburst Festival, Oxford Art Weeks, The Canal Heritage Project and Jazz on a Train!

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Events featured in this episode

Jousting Tournament
Art Weeks 2014: Bee Bartlett, Rachel Gracey & Richard Fox
The History Boys
Artweeks Exhibition
Grand Finale Concert
Pulled Apart By Horses, The Wytches
Soapbox City
They've Got Something
OutBurst
The Showstoppers Improvised Musical
Oxford Canal Heritage Day

Alps & Spires - Oxford & Grenoble Twinning 25th Anniversary Concert
Dance 'Til Dawn
Oxford Young Writers
Radical Reading
Collected Vision
Artweeks
Angels by Pauline McLynn
The Wardrobe by Sam Holcroft
Pronoun by Evan Placey
Same by Deborah Bruce
A Letter to Lacey by Catherine Johnson
Heritage by Dafydd James
Hearts by Luke Norris
Celebrate Oxford Canal's Heritage!
East Oxford Fun Dog Show
Alps and Spires
Oxford Canal Heritage Day
Oxford Canal Celebration Concert
Art Grenoble
Music for Brass & Organ
The Art of Poetry - an Artweeks exhibition
Artweeks in Charlbury
The Listening Room #5
Artweeks Sculpture Exhibition at the Turrill Garden
Artweeks - Write On Exhibition by The Oxford Scribes
Art exhibition- Kennett Road Artists-Oxfordshire Artweeks
The Lunchbox [PG]
World War II Weekend
Upper Heyford Artweeks
VillageArts - An Oxfordshire Artweeks exhibition

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