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A recording career that lasted only seven months in 1936 and 1937. Robert Johnson sings the blues.

Great Big Green Week: join us on Friday 12 June, 12 –2 p.m. for a flavour packed, plant lunch. For one day only, we'll be replacing our meat-based hot food offer with delicious plant based dishes.

Featured specials:

For decades, any aspiring musician has had a Velvet Underground album to hand, usually the first one with the Andy Warhol 'banana' on the cover. But other albums have gems as well. Take this Lou Reed song about an ex who married someone else.

The Oxford Brookes Science Bazaar is a large-scale public engagement event welcoming over 10,000 visitors, including families, schools, and local communities, for a day of hands-on discovery, interactive activities, workshops, and live shows. 

Introducing our new salad box range:

• Chicken & Bacon Pasta Salad
• Mediterranean Tuna & Orzo Salad
• Mixed Bean Burrito Bowl (v)

Make it a deal by adding a snack and selected hot/cold, or soft drink for just £6.95. or add a drink to any lunch dish for only £1.50. And, we are also refreshing our salad bar from 1st June.

So Rod is 18 and him and his mates have formed a band and just won a local competition and been given a recording contract. But they need songs. So Rod, still only 18, does something unusual. He writes one himself. In those days, writing songs was usually something someone else did. Bands just performed.

A minor key classic. By an 18-year-old.

First recorded and co-written by "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins in 1956, this song got Nina's treatment nine years later. 

You'd better believe her.

It was tempting to include the whole of Prokoviev's symphonic tale for children based on a Russian folktale, but there's things to do, so I won't keep you children. David Bowie is our rather good narrator here alongside the The Philadelphia Orchestra.

Chopin wrote 21 Nocturnes for solo piano and while he wasn't the first to do so, he set the standard which composers have spent nearly 200 years trying to match. The pianist is Angela Hewitt.

Pipp & Co Doughnuts - every Thursday from 30 April, only £3 each:

• Cinnamon & Brown Sugar 
• Mixed Berry Jam
• Belgian Chocolate
• Madagascan Vanilla Custard
• Sicilian Lemon Curd

Cinco de Mayo – Tuesday 5 May

A special Mexican lunch menu of nachos topped with mixed bean chilli or pulled beef barbacoa with cheese sauce, sour cream and jalapenos, available from 12 pm to 2 pm.