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WHILE the lockdown has been terrible news for the city, the quiet streets have proved perfect for filmmakers who have taken over part of Oxford city centre. A cast and crew of about 150 people worked around the clock, filming at Exeter College, the Examination Schools and the Museum of Natural History for a production codenamed ‘Tailspin’ - though believed to be a drama actually called Suspicion for the streaming service Apple TV by the writer of Die Hard and The Fugitive, and starring Uma Thurman. Trucks following orange location signs carrying the initials ‘TS’, parked in Rad...

The City and the Writer: In Oxford with Maya C. Popa —Italo Calvino, Can you describe the mood of Oxford as you feel/see it? Oxford is made up of large slabs of sunlit stone and broad tree-lined streets leading to narrow cobbled passageways cluttered with bicycles. It is dotted with Saxon churches and Gothic towers whose bells seem to ring continuously for one reason or another. Behind trick walls lie a succession of gates and doors that reveal the University’s colleges, whose pristine gardens only a select few may amble. It is a city of minds in conversation with minds past and present....