Thursday 16th October 2025

Culture

Are you listening comfortably? Audio drama and theatre

When people think of podcasts, they probably wouldn’t associate them with theatre. Yet it was this seemingly unlikely convergence between the two forms that led me to attend the...

Algorithms of individuality: ‘The Consciousness Company’

As Stephen Fry wrote, The Consciousness Company by M.N. Rosen addresses the “enormous ethical,...

Over-the-top-vlogging and call centres: Dial 1 for UK

Dial 1 for UK is a one-man show following the journey of Uday Kumar...

Spike Lee’s lackluster remake: Highest 2 Lowest

There is no reason why a remake should remain inferior to its source material;...

Review: Spurious

Tom Cutterham finds out it's still grim up North after reviewing Spurious, Lars Iyer's first novel derived from his blog of the same name

Heracles to Alexander the Great

Cherwell visits the Ashmolean's first major exhibition since its refurbishment

Interview: Portico Quartet

Cherwell catches up with saxophonist Jack Wylie and drummer Duncan Bellamy at their East London home

Review: Cardenio

Much to her surprise, Rebecca Tatlow thoroughly enjoys the recent reimagination of Shakespeare’s lost play put on as part of the RSC 50th Birthday Season at The Swan in Stratford-upon-Avon

Review: A C Grayling at the Oxford Literary Festival

Tian Yi Zheng reviews A. C. Grayling's visit to the Oxford Literary Festival where he talks about his new work, The Good Book: A Secular Bible

Etcetera announces competition winners

Cherwell's literary supplement, Etcetera, announces the winners of their first Freestyle Writing Competition

Review: ‘Initiate: An Oxford Anthology of New Writing’

Ella Sands reviews 'Initiate', the first anthology of work by graduates of Oxford's MSt in Creative Studies

Mastering creative writing

Tom Cutterham and Ella Sands talk to Dr Clare Morgan, director of Oxford's MSt in Creative Writing, about how the course has been instrumental in encouraging students to start writing more than just essays

Review: The Pigeon Detectives Live

Penny Sarchet reviews the Oxford leg of the Pigeon Detectives' comeback tour following the recent release of their new album, 'Up, Guards And At 'Em!'

Cherwell Abroad: Paris

Cherwell visits the Musée d'Orsay on Paris' Left Bank

Cherwell Abroad: Rome

Cherwell takes a look around the Borghese Gallery

Review: Colin Stetson – ‘New History Warfare, Vol. 2: Judges’

Simon Torracinta reviews Colin Stetson's mind-bending solo album

Review: Metamorphoses – Fables from Ovid

Rebecca Tatlow finds this modern adaptation of Ovid surprisingly faithful to the original

Rave in the nave

Marques Toliver and Lianne La Havas play St Giles in the Fields Church

Review: Nicholas Ostler at the Oxford Literary Festival

Rebecca Tatlow hears Nicholas Ostler talk about his new book, \'The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel\'

Review: The Strokes – ’Angles’

Patrick Scott explains why The Strokes just aren\'t cutting the right shapes and Angles with their latest album

Review: Submarine

Jacob Williamson weighs up Richard Ayoade's directorial debut

Panic on the streets of London

Marcin Plonka risks it all to capture last Saturday's demonstration from the front line of the breakaway group

Review: Cause Celebre

Francesca Wade finds cause for celebration in this revival of Rattigan's final play

Celebrating the life of Elizabeth Taylor

Students, peers and critics remember Taylor\'s life-long contribution to Oxford theatre

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