Winter Lecture 2024: An Audience with Raymond Blanc

Thursday 8 February 2024, 19:00-20:30 GMT | £20, booking required
Lecture Theatre, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PW

Raymond Blanc OBE is recognised as one of the world's finest chefs. Completely self-taught, his passion for cooking was inspired by the local terroir and his mother's seasonal, wholesome family meals.

His hotel and restaurant, Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons in Great Milton, boasts 11 different gardens and a heritage orchard with 2,500 trees. The Raymond Blanc Gardening School teaches budding home gardeners and allotment owners how to grow their own food and cook with the seasons. 

An acknowledged champion of sustainability, Raymond is the President of the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA), a not-for-profit organisation leading the industry in becoming more sustainable.

Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum has worked with Raymond Blanc for a number of years and is delighted to welcome him back as part of our Winter Lecture Series.

 

Thursday 25 January
19:00–20:30

Naoko Abe
"Saving the blossom: Cherry Ingram and his rich legacy"

  
Thursday 8 February
19:00–20:30		 Raymond Blanc
An audience with Raymond Blanc

 
Thursday 22 February
19:00–20:30		 Jonathan Drori
"Around the world in 80 plants"		  
Thursday 7 March
19:00–20:30		 Juliet Sargeant
"Garden stories – connecting people with landscape"		  
Tuesday 19 March
19:00–20:30		 Rachel de Thame
"A wholistic approach to gardening for wellbeing and wildlife"		  

Our Winter Lecture series invites speakers from the world of horticulture, botany and beyond.
All talks take place in the Lecture Theatre at Oxford University's Museum of Natural History, Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PW (directions).
Tickets are £20 or £80 for all five talks. These lectures are live only events and will not be recorded.
A drinks reception will take place after the lecture from 20:00 until 20:30 in the beautiful surrounds of the Museum. Alcoholic and non-alcoholic options will be available.
Tickets are available until the week before the event. 
Book your place here.