DR OLIVER COX (UNIV, 2006)

Dr Oliver Cox

DR OLIVER COX (UNIV, 2006)

Dr Oliver Cox shares his passion for England’s greatest landscape designer, Capability Brown

Published: 15 August 2016

 

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Dr Oliver Cox shares his passion for England’s greatest landscape designer, Capability Brown, in an interview recorded for the tercentenary celebrations of Brown’s birth. In discussing Brown’s achievements and how he has been perceived over the generations Oliver offers a preview of his talk on 18 September during the tenth Alumni Weekend in Oxford.

Oliver continues by explaining his love of Oxford, where he has completed three History degrees and is now employed as the inaugural Heritage Engagement Fellow at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). He describes the Thames Valley Country House Partnership – an organisation he created to link entrepreneurs in the heritage sector with researchers at Oxford – and even talks about appreciating Brown’s landscaping while competing in the Blenheim Palace triathlon.

 

Interviewer: Guy Collender
Music: Setuniman from www.freesound.org