Exhibitions October 18–November 5 Richard Pikesley, The Jerram Gallery, Sherborne, Dorset. New landscapes (01935 815261; www.jerramgallery.com)
Until November 22 ‘Another Life, Another World’, Piano Nobile, 129, Portland Road, London W11. Watercolours by Paul Nash made between 1910 and 1946 (020 7229 1099; www.piano-nobile.com)
Show October 16–19 Chester Antiques Show, Chester Racecourse, Cheshire. More than 40 dealers, many of whom are BADA and LAPADA members. Thursday to Saturday 10.30am–5.30pm, Sunday 10.30am–5pm (01886 833091; www.penman-fairs.co.uk)
Talk October 21 ‘Shaping the Air: the Voice and Radio’, The British Academy, 10–11, Carlton House Terrace, SW1. Marking 60 years since the first performance of Dylan Thomas’s radio play Under Milk Wood on the BBC. 6pm–8pm, entry free, but registration required (020–7969 5200; www.britac.ac.uk)
What to book this weekend November 15 National Point-to-Point Awards Dinner and Dance, Cheltenham Racecourse, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Tickets £75, including Champagne reception, three-course dinner, awards ceremony and dancing (01285 841920; www.pointtopoint.co.uk)
November 1 Ben Fogle’s School of Wild, The Lakes by Yoo, near Lechlade, Gloucestershire. Children will learn key survival techniques and bushcraft, from firelighting and shelter-building to foraging, skinning rabbits, basket-weaving, charcoal-making, woodcarving and bow-andarrow making. £110 per child (01367 254263; www.schoolofwild.com)
November 22 Art of perfume workshop, Sara Lucia Academy, Steyning, West Sussex. Artisan perfumer Sara Knights will help you to learn about the different fragrance families and create a signature scent, which you’ll take home with you. £75, including refreshments and all materials (www.saralucia.org)
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The curious case of Cecil Beaton and Madame XWhen he noticed an uncanny resemblance between John Singer Sargent’s painting of Virginie Gautreau and a Cecil Beaton portrait of Leslie Caron, Patrick Monahan called on the Hollywood Golden Age actress to investigate.
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The great house that's 'a magnificent scrapbook of cherry-picked ideas', and 'one of the most compelling products of Britain’s 18th-century love affair with Antiquity'John Goodall looks at the sources of inspiration behind the design for the magnificently idiosyncratic West Wycombe Park in Buckinghamshire.
