A TREE trail featuring the voices of Jeremy Paxman and Stephen Fry is to go live. The trail at Cheney School is already available virtually but now a live tree trail with student guides will take place on May 22 between 9.30am and 12pm. There is no need to book, with visitors asked to arrive at the school reception. The tree trail sees Mr Fry become a yew tree and Mr Paxman imagine himself as a hawthorn, while local MP Anneliese Dodds impersonates a cherry tree. Meanwhile, Caroline Lawrence, author of The Roman Mysteries, is an oak tree, and novelist Monica Ali a sycamore tree.
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Cheney School in Headington Staff at Cheney School in Oxford are running a breakfast talk series for students to explore science ideas. Every Friday morning in May, the school’s Rumble Museum will run the series of talks for Year Seven students Experts from around the world are delivering a range of virtual talks on different ‘What If?’ questions which involve using science to explore different ideas ranging from pandemics and eating insects to dinosaurs.
Thanks to an Oxfordshire school, now you can. The duo may be famed for their involvement in Blackadder and QI, Newsnight and University Challenge, but now they have lent their well-known voices to a school project. Their imitations of trees is part of an upcoming virtual tree trail at Cheney School in Headington. Lorna Robinson, director of the Rumble Museum and Iris Classics Centre at the school, said: “All of the trees in the trail have a voiceover – most of them are staff but there’s well-known people such as Stephen Fry and Jeremy Paxman too. “Those voicing the trees talk about the history of their tree, how the wood of the tree is used, and how they appear in myths and fairytales.