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Tap Social’s new bar joins Oxford Covered Market’s regeneration with food and drink hub, evening opening hours and Brixton Village Market vibe
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The Market Tap will be opening up in Oxford's Covered Market this year, as part of an extensive regeneration project of one of...
Books
From the Blitz to the swinging 60s: Fashion’s Audrey Withers is back in vogue thanks to Oxford author Julie Summers in ‘Dressed for War’
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"Behind a honey-coloured stone wall at the bottom of the Woodstock Road stands Somerville College. Its buildings are lovely but its archives are...
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Anton Lesser talks about Chief Superintendent Bright, his wife, lost child and midlife crisis in the new series of Endeavour
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Anton Lesser is much more relaxed in real life than that of his famous character Chief Superintendent Bright, joking around, bemoaning the cutting...
Classical
Soprano Sara Kalic, Norway’s Engegard Quartet, Oxford Philharmonic’s children’s concert and Dr Paul Coones Memorial Concert
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Read this week's classical music round-up here:
Books
REVIEW: Bleak House “is vividly retold in Creation’s inimitable style, encompassing laughter and sorrow in an enthralling and memorable production”
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For over eight years, Oxford’s native Creation Theatre company — well-known for its innovative adaptations of classic texts staged in unorthodox spaces —...
Review
REVIEW: Standing ovation at New Theatre as John Partridge “steals the show” in Cabaret with “a luminous performance” from Kara Lily Hayworth
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Having never seen the film or previous stage productions, the opening night of Cabaret at the New Theatre is a show that will...
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REVIEW: Educating Rita, at Oxford Playhouse all week, is as brilliant as ever. But does that mean nothing has changed?
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Educating Rita really got me thinking.
I mean here's a play written in 1980 by Willy Russell to highlight the disparities between the classes,...
Eat
REVIEW: Parsley and mint cake anyone? We check out new head chef Enrico Ramaglia’s menu at The Yurt Cafe, Nicholsons in North Aston
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As we were lunching among hardy perennials, spring bulbs and fruit trees in the unique café set amidst Nicholson’s Nursery at North Aston,...
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REVIEW: ‘Jeremy Irons in a splendid frock coat and riding boots, employed his hypnotically sonorous tones to superb effect at the Oxford Beethoven Festival 2020’
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Oxford Beethoven Festival: TS Eliot Four Quartets - Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra - narrated by Jeremy Irons.
The opportunity to combine poetry with music is...
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It’s a family affair: John Thaw’s daughter Abigail stars in Endeavour’s new series 7 with daughter Molly playing her mother Sally….
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You couldn't make it up if you tried. Indeed when Abigail Thaw told me about the first episode in Series 7 of Endeavour,...













