Culture
Cotswold Life
A Cotswold Adventure
As Martin Lane, Director of the Cotswolds Conservation Board, steps into retirement, he talks to Siân Ellis about the Board’s pioneering role, achievements over the last 20 years... and lugging a Google Trekker along the Cotswold Way
4 min |
September 2019
Cotswold Life
A Breed Apart
Why Adam Henson has finally got round to committing the story of our nation’s livestock heritage to print
5 min |
September 2019
Cotswold Life
An Evening With Oscar Wilde (and a Certain Rob Titchener)
Timothy Watson is the gorgeous-voiced actor who’ll be appearing at Chipping Campden Literature Festival this month. He’s a familiar figure from film, from TV screens and theatre, and from Radio 4 plays. And Katie Jarvis might just get round to asking him about his most famous role to date – as the Archers’ arch-villain, Rob Titchener.
7 min |
May 2017
Cotswold Life
Clover Growing Wild
One moment can change your path forever. Katie Jarvis spoke to Clover Stroud - who will be appearing at the Bath Festival: May 19-28 - about her life-changing experience.
5 min |
May 2017
Cotswold Life
Fun For All the Family
Three Counties Showground, June 16-18
2 min |
May 2017
Cotswold Life
A Garden With No End
Strong design underpins a garden of surprises.
5 min |
May 2017
Cotswold Life
The Doctor won't see you now
‘The imminent retirement of my much-loved GP is outrageous and deeply unfair. I don’t care if he deserves some time off’
3 min |
March 2017
Cotswold Life
Market Forces
Improving Cirencester’s appeal as a classic market town has been 50 years in the planning and is at last coming to fruition, as Tracy Spiers explains.
5 min |
February 2017
Cotswold Life
What A Difference A Year Makes
It’s been 12 months of dust and disturbance as Emma Samms renovated her Cotswold home, but was it worth it? You bet it was!
9 min |
October 2017
Cotswold Life
The Best In Retirement Living
The award-winning Richmond Villages launch a new £40 million retirement village, Richmond Wood Norton, near Evesham this month.
1 min |
October 2017
Cotswold Life
Twice As Nice
A pair of unusual stone houses that offer significant potential.
1 min |
December 2017
Cotswold Life
Christmas Spa-Rkle!
Cheltenham’s Montpellier area sprang to life with the discovery of its natural springs in the 19th century, and now it’s a vibrant shopping, drinking and dining destination.
5 min |
December 2017
Cotswold Life
Starting The Christmas Countdown
Traditionally, the winter months were the quietest season for farmers - but no more!
3 min |
December 2017
Cotswold Life
Lost In The Mists Of Time
Little is known of the Battle of Radcot Bridge, but this seemingly insignificant skirmish Little is known of the Battle of Radcot Bridge, but this seemingly insignificant skirmish decreed how England would be ruled for the next decade. decreed how England would be ruled for the next decade.
5 min |
December 2017
Cotswold Life
Bring On The Body Magic
‘The constant travelling and eating out (such a hardship, I know) meant many of my meals were out of my control. Something had to give; and I wasn’t going to let it be my trousers’
3 min |
November 2017
Cotswold Life
So Has The Queen Of Mean​​​​​​​ Mellowed?
Journalist, author and TV presenter Anne Robinson is heading back to our TV screens. Marianne Sweet visited her Costwold home to find out more - and to hear about her support for local libraries.
8 min |
November 2017
Cotswold Life
A Walk On The Wild Side
The day a case of mistaken identity nearly resulted in a trip to the police station.
3 min |
November 2017
Cotswold Life
On Patrol With The Countryside's Copper
Rural crime costs the country millions every year; but what exactly are the problems that landowners and farm-workers face, and what is being done to counteract them? Katie Jarvis joined PC Ashley Weller, Cotswold’s rural crime officer, on patrol.
8 min |
November 2017
Cotswold Life
Festive Fellowship For Four-Legged Friends
The Cotswolds Dogs & Cats Home’s wonderful Christmas Celebration is returning to Painswick next month.
2 min |
November 2017
Cotswold Life
Fresh Talent Springs From An Old Soul
Katie Jarvis talks to Kandace Springs about her headline gig at the upcoming Cheltenham Jazz Festival.
6 min |
April 2017
Cotswold Life
Call the Fashion Police
Who on earth thought we might like to be treated to an up close and personal tour of a stranger’s armpit hair – not to mention a glimpse of nipple when they lean forward?
3 min |
Summer 2017
Cotswold Life
Pigs Might Fly
I felt like a bit of a fraud. I had joined all these Kune-Kune owner forums and had been passing myself off as something that I wasn’t
3 min |
Summer 2017
Cotswold Life
Making waves in open water
I have never been a strong swimmer.
3 min |
March 2017
Cotswold Life
Who took the Rook?
Most farmers would agree that there’s very little to beat the taste of a hot, nourishing pie for supper after a hard day’s work in the fields.
3 min |
March 2017
Cotswold Life
Loving The Alien
Artist George Underwood is a creator of fantastical people and mythological beings who inhabit a world of his creating. Candia McKormack talked to him about his life in art and music, and his enduring friendship with David Bowie.
7 min |
October 2017
Cotswold Life
Plunging Into Elsewhere
Magic is in the air, says Sue Limb, as Stroud Book Festival returns to the Shire.
4 min |
October 2017
Cotswold Life
A Farmer And His Dog
In his latest book, Cotswold farmer and TV personality Adam Henson explores the relationship between farmers and their dogs. In this exclusive extract, we hear how his father Joe relied on his dogs’ ability to know instinctively what was expected of them.
4 min |
October 2017
Cotswold Life
The Medieval Skyscraper
When Derek Taylor goes to the village of Deerhurst near Tewkesbury to investigate one of England’s oldest and finest Saxon churches, he’s in for a few shocks.
5 min |
October 2017
Cotswold Life
The Beauty Of Bespoke
Chris Baylis, principal of Oxfordshire-based makers The Real Wood Furniture Company, waxes lyrical about commissioning a bespoke piece of furniture.
3 min |
October 2017
Cotswold Life
At Home With Farmer Giles
Katie Jarvis meets Giles Coren, Times columnist and restaurant critic, and discovers a) his Cotswold home is quite hard to find b) his lawn tractor is quite hard to start and c) he isn’t especially angry at all (but actually quite pleasing).
10 min |