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OxFolk Reviews: ‘Ignite’

Ben Ray looks at 'Ignite', the debut album of duo Will Pound & Eddy Jay

Review: Treasure Neverland – Real and Imaginary Pirates

Ben Ray sets sail to find his ideal desert island book

Book review: The University of Oxford, a History

Ben Ray digs into this herculean history of the university, undertaken by Magdalen's own Professor Brockliss

A discussion with Buzz Aldrin

Ben Ray is over the moon about Blackwell's event with the legendary astronaut

Work continues on Eve the plesiosaur

Work is continuing at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on piecing together the remains of Eve, a 165 million year old plesiosaur...

London, books and bears: an interview with Michael Bond

“The first time I nearly died was on a Wednesday.” Michael Bond, a smiling and well-dressed 90 year old, leaned forward as he talked....

Review: Rhinoceros

There aren’t many plays that leave you speechless as the actors take their final bow: still less that fully deserve a standing ovation. Rhinoceros...

Ray’s Chapter & Worse: 3rd week

I’ve just had the smug, narcissistic satisfaction of getting over a hundred likes on Facebook for a post- it always feels so good, and yet...

Set for Summer

The coming of May took Cherwell to the University of Oxford Botanic Garden to help celebrate vivid spring hues. Photography: Richard Wakefield Models: Eleanor McCann &...

Review: The Weir

There is a certain type of absolute silence that only comes with good storytelling – it is the silence of held breath, of absolute...

OxFolk Review: ‘In The Air Or The Earth’

‘In The Air Or The Earth’, the latest release by the Askew Sisters, is less a simple listening experience than an immersive storytelling session-...

Preview: The Weir

“Tell me a ghost story.” It only takes five small words to set the scene in this rehearsal of ‘The Weir’- a story of...

Ray’s Chapter & Worse: 2nd week

This week I had a revelation. Whilst cycling back from rowing, just before I was due to go into the Choffices (Cherwell Offices for...

Oxford in Summer

Eight things you have to do this Trinity Term