NICHOLAS NEWMAN
NICHOLAS NEWMAN BIO 17 May 2012
I am an international energy journalist located in Oxford, England with a comprehensive contacts book of leading energy industry professionals and academics to draw upon. I specialise in the following topics: oil and gas exploration and production together with power generation, including renewables and nuclear.
Much of my energy writing is concerned with trends in policies, risks, exploration and production technologies as well as trading in energy resources. This includes for instance in the gas sector, all aspects of current market policy, political and technological trends and developments that may affect the exploration, production and trading in natural gas, shale gas, CSG and LNG. http://www.nicnewmanoxford.com/Portfolio.html Read more 
Dangerous Liaisons
Wednesday 2 – Saturday 5 May
Last Wednesday’s production (2 May) of Dangerous Liaisons at the Oxford Playhouse performed by Oxford students was well worth seeing! This is a stage adaptation of the book’ Les Liaisons Dangerous’ by Pierre Choderlos in 1782. In its day, it was as revolutionary to French literature as Lady Chatterley’s Lover was to English literature in 1928.
However, those expecting to see a stage version of the Academy Award winning film of the same name, produced by Christopher Hampton in 1985 will be in for a surprise. Basically, this play is even better than the 1985 film. It is a tragic comedy in the best traditions of Feydeau farce. In a sense it is a development of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In this case the Romeo character Vicomte de Valmont is masterly played by leading man Ziad Sahaha and Juliet character Cecile de Tourvel played by Ella Waldman. However, these characters are being manipulated for pleasure and to relieve the boredom by the puppet master in this story, Marquise de Mertuil, portrayed by Alice Porter, who has the makings of a next Helen Mirran.
A crisis in leadership in Japan’s nuclear industry.
Failing to make the right decision is easy to do. Regrettably, despite years of technological progress and experience, governments and energy companies continue to make such mistakes. Nevertheless, due to the increasing scale of investment and environmental hazards that the industry faces, the world energy leadership needs to do better than it has in the past.
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COUNCIL WELCOMES STUNNING NEW LINDEN HOMES FOR SONNING COMMON
April 19 2012
Work will start soon on providing new houses for a village near Henley after councillors gave their backing to a stunning development by Linden Homes Thames Valley. Read more
Lorca’s Blood Wedding
“A SPANISH TRAGEDY.”
A review by Julia Gasper
A production by the Oxford Theatre Guild at the Oxford Playhouse.
A SPANISH TRAGEDY.
Lorca’s Blood Wedding
by Oxford Theatre Guild at the Playhouse.
Chipping Norton Literary Festival
Chipping Norton set
to draw one-thousand people
for three-day literary event.
20th – 22nd April 2012
Fifty events throughout
Chipping Norton
Come April, Chipping Norton will be in the news again as organizers launch the town’s first literary festival. The event will take place at venues convenient to the centre of Chipping Norton and will include speakers such as Mark Billingham, Joanna Trollope, Colin Dexter, Katie Fforde, and Sir Andrew Motion. In total about fifty literary luminaries will be participating and already more than 500 tickets have been sold. Of course many will be wondering who’s in the audience as the town is local to David and Samantha Cameron, Kate Moss, Jeremy Clarkson, Amanda Holden, Rebekah Brooks, Prue Leith, and Alex James.
for interviews with some of the authors involved see http://www.oxfordprospect.co.uk/Interviews.html
Oxford First Tuesday
Nice to see you all at Oxford’s First Tuesday last night!
Hugh Jaeger the local chair of the bus users forum joined us. He sparked off some lively conversations including the problems passengers have with leather seats on buses and church painting from the middle ages in the county. It was also suggested that the next workshop we hold could be about how to podcast or as Richard said Radio on the internet.
Also it has been suggested we all visit the London Book Fair this month. http://www.londonbookfair.co.uk/ 16 – 18 April.
Have a good Easter! Look forward to seeing Philip on Good Friday
