LiveFridays at the Ashmolean Culture By Rolf Merchant 31st January 2013 For more details of the next Live Friday event, ‘Musical Technologies: Old and New’, on 22nd February, visit http://www.ashmolean.org/livefriday/ With thanks to Sue Pickering, Patrick Penzo and Lucie Dawkins. Check out our other content 2025 releases you may not have seen (but definitely should) 9th January 2026 ‘Dark, revealing, gripping’: In conversation with the cast of ‘JACK’ 4th January 2026 ‘The political is also political’: Ash Sarkar’s ‘Minority Rule’ 1st January 2026 FacebookTwitterPinterestWhatsApp Graceful and self-assured: Circle Mirror Transformation reviewed 3rd December 2025 ‘We’re all mad here’: Alice in Won-DRE-Land at Tingewick 2025 3rd December 2025 A comical approach to a classic text: ‘Hedda Gabler’ reviewed 1st December 2025 ‘Lux’ by RosalÃa review: A breath of fresh air 1st December 2025 Illuminating American conservatism: William F Buckley’s biography, reviewed 30th November 2025 The Magdalene Songs: Giving a singing voice to victims 1st December 2025 Most Popular Articles £17,000 on grass, redacted files, and 250,000 parcels: Cherwell’s 2025 FOI review Is the future of student protest set in stone? Intoxtigation 2025: The good, the bad, and the Balliol bar  An offer is only half the story: The challenges facing college outreach Across the Atlantic: American academics are finding a new home at Oxford