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Tuesday 21st October 2025
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Oxford Revisited
An exploration of literary works based in Oxford
Profile of Writing Students # 2
Amy Blakemore, a student at Oxford, answers a few questions about her poetry
Profile of Writing Students #1
Clarissa Pabi, a student at Oxford, answers a few questions about her creative writing
Voyeurs to man’s vulnerability
W J Humphries finds Lucian Freud's exhibition an affecting experience.
The Phoenix and the Red Carpet
Nick Hilton visits Jericho's finest independent cinema in search of a better class of movie
The Booker Prize for Dough
A short story
Review: King Charles – LoveBlood
Olivia Stiles thinks she may have found the soundtrack to the summer in King Charles' LoveBlood
Review: Ren Harvieu – Through the Night
Patrick Scott finds Ren Harvieu to have come back from injury to deliver an album that feels free while maintaining its classic touches
Interview: Dry the River
Olivia Arigho Stiles talks neo folk and religion with Dry the River
Are you a creative writer?
Viccy Ibbett surveys a few of the opportunities available to creative writers in Oxford.
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Two rich and powerful short stories by Anahita Hoose
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A trio of short stories by Calypso Blaj, Failed Novelist extraordinaire.
A Bluffer’s Guide to: George Bernard Shaw
Our weekly guide for the theatrically illiterate talks you through the great socialist writer
Review: Killing Hitler
Despite a patchy production, Angus Hawkins is impressed by a fascinating story
Settling the Score
Christy Edwall talks with Dario Marianelli about the art of composition
A Bluffer’s Guide to: The New Wave of Hip Hop
Matt Jones walks you through some of the biggest names in the latest resurgence of US hip hop
Album Review: Europe – Allo Darlin’
Tom Hoskins finds that Allo Darlin' balances pain with euphoria to good effect
Review: The Tempest, Magdalen
Constantine Fraser laments the rain, as a high-spirited production of The Tempest is forced inside
Review: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Brasenose
Rosalee Edwards feels the fourth wall slipping away in front of her in this enthralling production
Review: Court, BT Studio Theatre
Tommo Fowler is instructed to call this piece of new writing 'meta theatre; mental theatre'
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