Thursday 23rd 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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Emma Irving is impressed by this unconventional preview for The Architect

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Anthony Maskell finds Fifty Shades of Grey a painfully punishing experience

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Absurd brilliance pervades Inherent Vice

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Moon King: mooning the music industry

Sara Semic chats to Moon King’s Daniel Benjamin about dream-pop and Boiler Room sessions

Review: Ibeyi – Ibeyi

Clara-Laeïla Laudette is taken in by the French-Cuban twins' Yoruba-inspired debut album

Review: Carl Bar̢t and The Jackals РLet It Reign

Aidan Clark is unimpressed by The Libertines co-frontman's solo endeavours

Review: José González – Vestiges & Claws

Rachael Griffith is swayed by the soothing melodies of Swedish folk singer José González

Confessions of a metalhead

Colette Lewis bemoans the prejudice against heavy metal music and its fans

Picks of the Week HT15 Week 7

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

Milestones: Football and Music

Tom Barrie examines the fruitful marriage of football and music

Interview: Nick Jonas

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

Monumental Art: Seven Works of Mercy

Anna Zanetti discusses Caravaggio in the latest installment of our series

Loading the Canon: Barbara Pym

Lily McIlwain calls for the addition of Barbara Pym to the literary establishment

Death of a Playwright: Arthur Miller remembered

10 years on, Emma Irving looks back at the work of one of the Twentieth Century’s greatest writers

Review: The Duchess of Malfi

Zara Brownless enjoys this modernised version of the Renaissance tragedy

Review: King Lear

Mark Barclay reviews this original, cinematic reinvention of one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies

Voices from the Past: Sylvia Plath

Hear Plath reading her own poetic account of her tortured relationship with her father

Review: Captain Amazing

Anna Zanetti reviews this one man show at the BT Studio
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