Sunday 11th January 2026

Culture

2025 releases you may not have seen (but definitely should)

It’s that time of year again: the season in which we are inundated with a never-ending stream of lists ranking 2025’s top releases. Cherwell, however, will not attempt to...
Culture Lara Machado -

‘Dark, revealing, gripping’: In conversation with the cast of ‘JACK’

JACK, by Musketeer Productions, reimagines the cult story of the most notorious serial killer...
Culture Matilde Ambrosio -

‘The political is also political’: Ash Sarkar’s ‘Minority Rule’

Universities have often been seen as bastions of radicalism. Forgetting the fact that higher...
Books Morien Robertson -

Graceful and self-assured: Circle Mirror Transformation reviewed

Boulevard Productions’ Circle Mirror Transformation is a faithful and competent take on Annie Baker’s...
Culture Lara Machado -
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St. George’s Day playlist

Cherwell music get all patriotic with their latest offering...

Haven’t they Don well?

Ceri Fowler and Don Broco discuss everything from George Clooney to puppies...

Styles stays a-Float

Riaz Philips thinks this is a very inoffensive but listenable work...

We’re sick of Steve!

Jack Chown thinks that Steve has fallen into the 'Mumford and Sons trap' on his latest offering...

Review: The Book of Mormon

Frank Macpherson finds this show frankly boring

Spotlight on…1984

Evy Cavalla interviews the production company behind the dystopia

Review: The Smack Family Robinson

Like the Swiss Family Robinson, but with less of a message and much more smack

Review: The Place Beyond the Pines

It's Bradley Cooper who steals the show in this tale of fathers and sons

The Top 12: 2nd Week

Marc Pacitti looks ahead to the top cultural events of the week ahead.

Roll over Beethoven, and tell Uematsu the news

Josh Jones examines the biases of classical music fanatics and their effects on Classic FM

3D or not 3D?

Sophie Hall-Luke wonders if 3D will soon have had its day

Review: Five Minutes to a Fortune

The new quiz show's biggest asset is Davina — but there's some surprisingly original questions too

Review: Arne Dahl

Sarah Fan gets her latest fix of crime drama from Swedish export, Arne Dahl

JLS: A Tribute

On this fateful day for British pop music, Sophie Hall-Luke reflects on JLS's illustrious career

Review: Daughter @Oxford Town Hall

Oli Davies is enchanted by Daughter's emotional set

Tracks of the week: April 23rd

It's been around a week. I found you some more tunes. Enjoy.

Aspects of Culture: Online Culture

Megan Birch contributes to our new (semi) regular feature, examining what culture means to different groups of the student population.

Another glorious endeavour

An interview with Shaun Evans about Endeavour, acting and potentially playing Doctor Who

Spotlight on…Life is a Dream

Helen Reid shines a light behind the scenes of a drama troupe

Changing the Face of Autism

A look at the campaign challenging the practice of casting non-disabled actors in disabled roles
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