Sunday 14th September 2025

Culture

Animal History: Reviewed

If an older adult has ever raised their eyebrow at your vegetarianism, then I might just have the book for you. They might be interested in knowing that even...
Books Lara Machado -

Hertford Archaeology Open Day: Medieval Oxford laid bare

You may have spent the last year wondering what has been going on amongst...
Art Antonia Rogers -

The Blue Trail: Reviewed

★★★★☆ The Blue Trail (O Último Azul), this year’s winner of the Berlin International Film...
Culture Lara Machado -

Review: Sketches from a Curious Mind

In 1962, Edward Anthony wrote: “Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a...
Books Hannah Becker -
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Review: I’m So Excited

Despite some funny lines, Joel Casey finds the latest film from Pedro Almodóvar substandard

Review: Star Trek Into Darkness

Georgina Pollard finds the latest Star Trek film a spocktacular triumph

Ready for your screen test?

Alexander Woolley revises the best and worst of exams on screen

Preview: The Cosmonaut’s Last Message…

Darya Schchepanovska gives a three-star preview to this modern Daivd Greig play, showing at the Keble O'Reilly in 5th week.

A visit to the Dashmolean

How to do the Ashmolean in an hour

Consciously Good

Stephen Willats's exhibition dignifies his pedestrian subject matter

Getting Ziggy with it

In his new book about Ziggy Stardust, Simon Goddard wants his pop geniuses to be aliens...

Preview: The Wind in the Willows

This garden play will be performed in the St. Peter's Gardens and promises to be a roaring success

Americanisms: I could most definitely care less

Marc Pacitti rebuffs British concerns about the dangers of Americanization

Interview: Michael Morpurgo

Anna Leszkiewicz talks to Michael Morpurgo about his hope for a world without walls

Spotlight On… Some Funny

Helen Reid interviews the cast of Oxford's newest sketch show, on how they plan on providing at least Some Funny to audiences in 5th week.

Review: Ashurbanipal

Alex Wilson was shaken but entertained by the lyricism and expressive choreography of this piece of new writing

Perfect Punting Playlist

Cherwell Music go for a punt and give you some perfect tunes...

Preview: An Inspector Calls

Samuel Graydon previews An Inspector Calls, the Trinity term play from St Hilda's Drama Society, showing on Friday and Saturday of 4th week.

The Office: A Retrospective

Ten years on, Tom Goulding holds a series of interviews with the cast of the award-winning sitcom

Review: Lead Feathers

An ambitious but mature production from the writers of Bluebeard

Review: The Comic Mysteries

Camilla Rees gives three stars to this production of the Comic Mysteries.

Review: The Winterling

Pascal Crowe gives five stars to the first Rough Hewn production of the term, The Winterling by Jez Butterworth.

Review: The Audience

Review of The Audience, a new West End play by Peter Morgan, about relations between the Queen and Prime Ministers of recent years.

Review: Savages – Silence Yourself

Derick J Patterson is blown away by this punk debut
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