Sunday 19th 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: Whiplash

Jennie Han is impressed with the unrelenting, staccato rhythm of Whiplash

Review: Enemy

Anthony Maskell thinks that Enemy is a film of Orwellian paranoia and bleak isolation

Preview: Richard Parker

Christian Amos gets an inside look at this exciting new play

Review: Into the Woods

Aimee Kwan is spellbound by Into the Woods’ big-screen adaptation

Review: Testament of Youth

Naomi Morris Omori appreciates Testament of Youth’s searing poignancy

John Williams’ Stoner: ahead of its time

50 years on, Rose Sykes asks why this book was forgotten

Rembrandt: The late works at the National Gallery

Mark Barclay feels that the paintings of the Dutch master strike a powerful chord

New term, new Audrey

Bethan Roberts checks out this term's first comedic offering

Barbarism begins: Meat is Murder at thirty

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull looks back at a classic album from The Smiths

Preview: The Dumb Waiter

Fay Watson gets the low-down on this production of a Harold Pinter classic

Review: Belle and Sebastian-Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull finds himself underwhelmed by two-thirds of the band's ninth album

Review: Panda Bear – Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper

Aidan Clark reviews the latest album from the experimental musician and co-founding member of Animal Collective

Review: Death Grips – Fashion Week

Henry Bruce-Jones reviews the latest surprise offering from the supposedly no longer together experimental hip hop group

Picks of the Week HT15 Week 2

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

Milestones: Edward Bond’s Saved

Fergus Morgan examines the monstrosity of violence in Edward Bond's controversial work

Frankenstein, Godzilla and now Norman Foster

Ollie Johnson decries the monstrous state of our modern city skylines

Where are they now: Nizlopi

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

Shades of the Savannah

Rachael Griffith plays with the Malawian, Zambian and Kenyan sunshine in this collection of vivid photos

Preview: The Oxford Revue’s Audrey

Stage asks The Revue about what to expect from their Audrey's this term.

Voices from the Past: Robert Browning

In the first of an online serial, Cherwell Arts and Books discusses the only known recording of Browning's voice
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