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Wessex Chronicle (Blog)
Wessex in Fiction: The Ghost Sonata
The Ghost Sonata is the third in the Gilda Joyce series of young adult mystery novels by Jennifer Allison. Gilda Joyce is a teenager who solves mysteries using a ouija board and her psychic abiities. The Ghost Sonata sees her accompanying her best friend Wendy Choy to a piano recital in Oxford, where she discovers …
Wessex on Screen: Coming of Age
Coming of Age was a BBC Three sitcom about sixth form students set in Abingdon, though mostly filmed at the BBC Television Centre in That London. A pilot, with several of the leads played by different actors to those featured in the eventual series, was broadcast on 21st May 2007. The brainchild of Tim Dawson, …
TV Review: His Dark Materials episode 1
His Dark Materials is an adaptation of Philip Pullman’s novel Northern Lights, set in Oxford and partly filmed in Gloucestershire. The Oxford in question is, in the words of the opening crawl, part of “a world both like and unlike our own”, where souls take the form of animals known as daemons, and where Oxford …
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The Society holds events on the closest Saturday to Barnes Night (22nd February), St Ealdhelm's Day (25thMay) and King Alfred Day (26th October). The next event is on Saturday 22nd February 2020 in Nailsea (exact location to be confirmed).