Month: August 2008

A new bridge has been built over the River Thames to take thousands of visitors to the Reading Festival.  The temporary structure, made out of the stage used for Madonna’s tour, has just been completed upstream of Caversham Bridge.  In recent years young campers on the Mapledurham side have had to queue for a ferry […]

Faith In The Frame, a new 10 part series for ITV1, is being launched with a programme devoted to Stanley Spencer’s painting The Resurrection in Cookham Churchyard. The first programme goes out on Sunday evening 31 August and sees Melvyn Bragg chair a 30 minute discussion with novelist Howard Jacobson, art expert Tim Marlow and […]

Those living in the London ITV region will have been able to enjoy Peter Ackroyd’s 30 minute Thames programme this evening. This first episode visited the source near Cirencester and claimed that the Rhine was once part of the Thames. Most interesting was an interview with the owners of Rose Isle just downstream of Oxford. […]