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Tag: Bob Bourne

Apr 3, 2022Apr 2, 2022HTBS

Relative Rowing

Apr 6, 2021Apr 8, 2021HTBS

Keep it in the Family

Mar 4, 2021Mar 4, 2021HTBS

Throwback Thursday: Oxford 1912

Feb 8, 2021Feb 7, 2021HTBS

Donald Gollan: The Nearly Man

Apr 8, 2020Apr 7, 2020HTBS

The Idol of the Hour

Mar 24, 2020Mar 23, 2020HTBS

Oxford has the Lightweight Blues

Dec 12, 2019Dec 12, 2019HTBS

Part IV – Peter Haig Thomas: The Unorthodox Orthodoxist

Oct 21, 2017Oct 21, 2017HTBS

A BBC Series That Will Float Your Boat

Jul 6, 2017Jul 5, 2019HTBS

The 1960 Boat Race: Oxford’s Adrian Stokes’s Rare Footage

Jun 26, 2017Jun 27, 2017HTBS

Eton’s Procession of Boats: History Rows Past

Jun 10, 2017Jun 15, 2017HTBS

Yale are Favourites

Jun 9, 2017Jun 9, 2017HTBS

The Rowing Flemings – Part II: The Man with the Golden Oar

May 3, 2017May 4, 2017HTBS

The Boat Race 1946: It’s Oxford!

May 10, 2013Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Auction Watch

Nov 28, 2011Apr 23, 2014Ellen

Oxford 1912

Oct 28, 2011Apr 23, 2014Ellen

A Good Oar!

Jul 16, 2011Apr 25, 2014Ellen

The Great Bourne Family

Jun 3, 2010Apr 25, 2014Ellen

The Bournes: 2 – ‘The Ugly Stroke’

Jun 2, 2010Apr 25, 2014Ellen

The Bournes: 1 – ‘GDBM’

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