Sunday 16th November 2025

Culture

GCSE drama nostalgia: ‘The Detention’ Review

The Detention provided its fair share of giggles, but whether that was a result of humour or awkwardness is up for debate. There were undoubtedly many merits to this production:...

The power of the playlist

"These ten precious songs ... will become a time capsule"

Ceilings, wives, and love letters to the city: The Pre Raphaelites in Oxford

It was in 1857, not long after the construction of the Oxford Union, that...

The lying life of authors: John le Carré and authorial double-lives

“I’m not a spy who writes novels, I am a writer who briefly worked...

Interview: Metro Station

The band on touring with Hannah Montana, 'pop music', and wanting to be big

New Writing Festival winners announced

Cherwell brings you the results of the annual OUDS competition

Review: The White Ribbon

Nick Pierce reviews Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or winning latest offering

Review: Oxford University Sinfonietta

The acclaimed ensemble delivers again, with pieces by Mozart, Schnittke and Williams

Review: Oxford Alternotives

Edmund Thomson Jones previews the a cappella group's 8th week show at the Magdalen Auditorium.

The New, still Beautiful South

Philippa Hibbs talks to Dave Hemingway about fame, gigging and life after Paul Heaton

Review: New Moon and a new man

Lucinda Knight falls in love all over again watching the latest in the Twilight saga

Bunny and the Bull Review

Cherwell follows the classic odd couple around Europe

Review: A State Affair

It's grim up north in the BT's final offering of term

Review: The Bacchae

Hertford bop cellar, 1st-3rd December

Review: A Streetcar Named Desire

Worcester College JCR- 25th, 27th and 28th November

Jamie T – The Man’s Machine EP

Hannah Partos reviews Jamie T's forthcoming EP

Not so serious men

Josh Rosaler talks ambiguity and nihilism with the Cohen brothers

Review: Paradise Lost

A review of Milton's classic

Review: The School for Scandal

A classics rendering of Sheridan's comedy of manners

Review: Marriage of Figaro

Robin Thompson highly recommends this week's production of the opera at the Sheldonian.

Review: A Serious Man

The Coen brothers get serious in this latest offering.

Review: Steampunk

Lots of steam, just not enough punk for our reviewer.

Review: And Another Thing…

Eoin Colfer's Hitchhiker sequel is baffling, overlong and unfunny. Avoid.

No more Mr. Nice Guy

Josh Lowe gets tough on Nu-folk niceness, electronic contentment and ukuleles

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