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Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull

Clunch Review: Brasenose

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbill is less than impressed by Brasenose's lunch

Milestones: Jusepe de Ribera’s ‘The Bearded Woman’

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull discusses the deep emotional beauty and sympathy conveyed in Jusepe de Ribera’s 'The Bearded Woman'

Milestones: Dancing in the Street

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull discusses why Mick Jagger and David Bowie’s hit cover ‘Dancing in the Street’ (1985) is a landmark of cultural stagnation

Milestones: Punk

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull discusses the life and death of the punk scene and its rebellion against popular rock and roll in the late seventies.

Interview: Lil Jon

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull talks crunk, clubs and Kanye with rapper and producer Lil Jon

Early English opera: the failed metamorphosis

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull questions why England never had an operatic renaissance

Milestones: Louis Le Prince and the earliest films

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull discusses early documentary films and the work of the world's first true film-maker, Louis Le Prince (1841-90)

Milestones: Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Voice’ (1912)

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull discusses Thomas Hardy's poetic masterpiece of love, loss and guilt

Milestones: Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull discusses the complex identities that work together to forge Henry Fuseli’s masterpiece of gothic art

Interview: Eudaimonia and culture with Vivienne Westwood

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull talks literature and art with Dame Vivienne Westwood

The Stranglers reviewed: no more heroes anymore?

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull reviews 70s rockers, The Stranglers' latest appearance at Oxford's O2 Academy

The difficulties of love online

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull talks about his issues with the new LGBTQIA+ online dating apps.

Where are they now: O-Zone

Cherwell delves into the later careers of one-hit-wonders so you don’t have to...

Interview: Nick Jonas

Nick Jonas talks to Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull about his childhood and life in the media spotlight