Thursday 28th August 2025

Culture

‘Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?’ at the Fringe

★★★⯪☆ Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? is a one-man, one-puppet musical journey through the apocalypse. After a 'catastrophic' magnitude 1-ish earthquake, the dead are reanimated, unleashing a zombie outbreak....

‘Timestamp’ at the Fringe: Existing in the ‘now’

★★★★☆ Timestamp is a part-theremin, part-dance exploration of womanhood, expectation, and time. Brought to the...

Architectural and religious fusions in Andalusia and Oxford

Oxford is a city deeply entwined with religion. With the first of its colleges...

‘HOLE IN THE WALL L’HOPITAL’ at Fringe

★★★☆☆ Everything I write ends up being about grief – I suppose this review only...

Early English opera: the failed metamorphosis

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull questions why England never had an operatic renaissance

Review: Revolution – The St Anne’s Musical Revue

Joseph Evans finds St Anne's latest musical offering to be a generally entertaining evening - choreography aside

Live Review: Turbowolf

Joe Manktelow thinks Turbowolf will go on to bigger and better things, having enjoyed their live performance at the Bullingdon Arms

Review: Passion Pit – Kindred

Tom Waterhouse is impressed by Passion Pit's latest offering

5 songs to get you through an all-nighter for an essay

Rachael Griffith takes you through the ultimate essay crisis playlist

Interview: Bipolar Sunshine

Rachael Griffith chats with the proud Mancunian Bipolar Sunshine

Preview: Beachcombing

Mark Barclay takes a look at this meditative new play from a rising star of the Oxford drama scene

Preview: Killing Hitler

Oxford Graduates and the July Plot to assassinate Hitler

Picks of the Week TT15 Week 3

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

Milestones: Louis Le Prince and the earliest films

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull discusses early documentary films and the work of the world's first true film-maker, Louis Le Prince (1841-90)

Collective Voice: the rise of the radio documentary

Beatrice Liese examines the ongoing difficulties and successes of the personal radio story and podcast

Simon Elmes: documentary and the art of story-telling

Elliot Langley talks to the former Creative Director of the BBC's Radio Documentary Unit

The poet as performer

Ben Cooke discusses sound and senselessness in the verse of James Fenton

Christian Richter: unearthing a past of architectural genius

Millie McLuskie talks to the photographer about imaging the abandoned and the ephemeral

The genius of Mad Men

Toby Scadding casts a retrosepctive glance over Mad Men's past seven seasons, locating the show amongst the pantheon of television classics

Monumental Art: Fine detailed portrait of Homer Simpson

Fintan Calpin on the genius of Chris (Simpsons Artist)

The Dark Side of the Picket Fence

Anthony Maskell explores the depths of filmmakers’ obsession with suburban darkness

Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron

Alec Badenoch finds the latest Avengers installment to be enjoyable but perfunctionary

In Defence of: Cloud Atlas

Anthony Maskell celebrates the Wachowskis' sprawling cross-genre multi-narrative epic

A view from the cheap seat

Lauren Jackson finds a long lost diary...

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