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These Sunday concerts in Oxford began in 1986 and have established themselves as one of the UK's most successful chamber music series. Visitors can enjoy performances by excellent musicians and ensembles in the stunning setting of the Holywell Music Room.

Oxford Coffee Concerts Website

The Friends Life T20 begins with a group format in June, before quarter finals in July and Finals Day at Southampton's Rose Bowl in August. Warwickshire Royals play their home games at Edgbaston in Birmingham.

Friends Life T20 Website

West Bromwich Albion FC play their home matches at The Hawthorns. The Premier League runs between August and May and full fixture lists can be found on the club websites. Please note: games may be rearranged due to cup or television commitments.

West Bromwich Albion FC Website

Aston Villa FC play their home matches at Villa Park. The Premier League runs between August and May and full fixture lists can be found on the club websites. Please note: games may be rearranged due to cup or television commitments.

Official Premier League Website

Wolverhampton Wanderers FC play their home matches at Molineux Stadium. The Premier League runs between August and May and full fixture lists can be found on the club websites. Please note: games may be rearranged due to cup or television commitments.

Wolverhapton Wanderers FC Website

Rugby Union side Newport Gwent Dragons welcome Magners League teams to their Rodney Parade stadium for the 2011/2012season. Please visit the club's website for full details of all fixtures.

Newport Gwent Dragons Website

With the 400th anniversary of King James' Authorised Version of the Bible and the 50th anniversary of the Royal Shakespeare Company coinciding, David Edgar's new commission, Written on the Heart, receives its première in the Swan Theatre. Greg Doran directs.

Edgar returns to the RSC after famously adapting Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby and his original dramas Destiny, The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs, Maydays, Pentecost and The Prisoner's Dilemma. With a company led by Bruce Alexander, Stephen Boxer and Oliver Ford-Davies, Edgar tells the story of the reformation through the lives and deaths of the earliest translators of the Bible into the vernacular.

He particularly focuses on the dilemma of Lancelot Andrewes (Ford-Davies), King James’s leading translator, faced with a personal crisis of betrayal and compromise.

Written on the Heart (RSC) Website

The natural world is brought into fresh focus with the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery. Travel the globe through the eye of a lens, from the cold Arctic to the deepest tropical rainforests.

Get into London Theatre cheers up those dark winter nights with reductions for over 50 shows through to mid February. Whatever your interest, from musicals to high drama, classic comedies to brand-new plays or opera and ballet, you'll find something for the whole family.

Fancy some escapism? Book yourself into one of the big musicals or a frothy comedy. Or perhaps searing tragedy is more your thing, especially in these economic times.

Participating shows, usually including off-West End venues, like the Royal Court and New Wimbledon Theatres, are listed on the GILT website and booking opens in early December, so you can give the gift of a night at the theatre as Christmas presents.

Get into London Theatre Website

A honey-coloured Palladian mansion, Basildon Park is a National Trust property, with lovely parkland overlooking the Thames Valley. The 18th-century house has some notable plasterwork and an elegant staircase, as well as the unusual Octagon Room.