Wednesday 22nd April 2026

Culture

Bridging Communities: Vocatio:Responsio’s Liverpool Tour

Vocatio:Responsio, meaning Call:Response in Latin, is an early music ensemble founded and directed by the Merseyside-based violinist Samuel Oliver-Sherry, a current third year music student at St Anne’s College....
Culture Evelyn Lambert -

‘Comedy is very deceptive’: Seán Carey on ‘Operation Mincemeat’

As a history student, you occasionally come across stories so strange they feel almost fictional. Operation Mincemeat is one of them.
Culture Hattie Simpson -

‘People are so hungry to create together’: Lisa Ko on going analogue, crafting, and writing the future

It’s 11:02am in New York when Lisa Ko appears on the video call. In Oxford, the sun is almost down.
Books Abigail Lakeland -

How 2025’s biggest films made their mark through music

The recent Oscar nominations have allowed us to reflect on how fundamental musical scores are to film, and the highlights of last year’s film soundtracks.
Culture Ruaridh McEwen -
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Review: Living Together

Mark Barclay and Paul Ostwald experience this complex family saga

The wisdom of Rufus Norris

Francesca Nicholls gets some career advice from a pro

Monumental Art: Twin

Dominic Hand looks at Robert Ryman's masterpiece of subtlety

Primo Levi: A life broken down to its elements

Jessica Poole discusses the importance of the Holocaust survivor's memoir, The Periodic Table

A dark and memorable Fairytale

Catherine Kelly reviews Murakami’s latest novella, The Strange Library

Picks of the Week TT15 Week 4

Cherwell brings you the best of this week's gigs, plays and events

Milestones: Claude Cahun

Imogen Lester discusses the early work of the Surrealist chameleon Claude Cahun, who revelled in the art of reinvention and refused to submit to convention

Mexico’s changing faces: the surrealist work of the 40s

Morgan Harries explores the ever-changing artworks produced by a country in search of itself

Early English opera: the failed metamorphosis

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

Review: Revolution – The St Anne’s Musical Revue

Joseph Evans finds St Anne's latest musical offering to be a generally entertaining evening - choreography aside

Live Review: Turbowolf

Joe Manktelow thinks Turbowolf will go on to bigger and better things, having enjoyed their live performance at the Bullingdon Arms

Review: Passion Pit – Kindred

Tom Waterhouse is impressed by Passion Pit's latest offering

5 songs to get you through an all-nighter for an essay

Rachael Griffith takes you through the ultimate essay crisis playlist

Interview: Bipolar Sunshine

Rachael Griffith chats with the proud Mancunian Bipolar Sunshine

Preview: Beachcombing

Mark Barclay takes a look at this meditative new play from a rising star of the Oxford drama scene

Preview: Killing Hitler

Oxford Graduates and the July Plot to assassinate Hitler

Picks of the Week TT15 Week 3

Cherwell brings you the best of this week's gigs, plays and events

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)

Collective Voice: the rise of the radio documentary

Beatrice Liese examines the ongoing difficulties and successes of the personal radio story and podcast

Simon Elmes: documentary and the art of story-telling

Elliot Langley talks to the former Creative Director of the BBC's Radio Documentary Unit
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