Interviews
Andrew Gilmour speaks to me from Berlin where he is the Executive Director of the Berghof Foundation, an organisation dedicated to peacebuilding and conflict resolution around the world. He’s just come back from a holiday in his native Scotland which, he smilingly informs me, was apparently the only place not blessed with sun.
Yvette Fielding started her working life as an actor and at the age of 18 became the youngest presenter on the popular BBC children’s TV show, Blue Peter. Over the course of her career, she has become synonymous with ghouls and hauntings as the frontwoman of paranormal shows including Most Haunted and Ghosthunting With…
For the uninitiated, Nell Mescal (yes, sister of actor Paul) is an Irish singer-songwriter who hit the festival circuit hard last summer, playing (amongst others) The Great Escape, BST Hyde Park, Boardmasters and Live at Leeds. This year, she’s headed to Oxfordshire and Alex James’ Big Feastival for August bank holiday weekend. Eloise Lonsdale caught up with her to find out more about her musical style and her recently launched EP, Can I Miss it For a Minute.
Corinne Bailey Rae’s Put Your Records On snap-shotted the summer of 2006. Her most recent release, Black Rainbows came out 2023 and it is obvious to hear how much she is relishing the full range of her unique voice and, as I was to discover when we spoke, her extraordinarily lyrical vocabulary.
Award-winning quirky and alternative comedian Paul Foot is returning to Oxford this month with his new show, Dissolve which is set to be his most vulnerable and honest yet. We got in touch to find out what we can expect from his performance at Oxford’s New Theatre, as well as – in very Paul Foot fashion – getting side-tracked by King Tutankhamen, and what Jesus might have achieved if he'd been a plumber...
Ahead of her talk in Oxford as one of a series of events taking place to mark Black History Month, we spoke with Preeti Dhillon about her writing and how we can raise awareness of unspoken histories.
When you think of the notable figures that have come to Oxford University in its almost 1000-year history, you’ll most likely think of Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, Bill Clinton or basically
While Oxford may not have arenas to fill, it’s certainly welcomed some genuine legends of the music industry over the years. I’m still not over missing out on Bob Dylan’s 2022
There are some figures – cultural icons – who seem to occupy such a different reality that the idea of them being as human as the rest of us seems surprising. For several heady years, Penelope Tree defined the free spirit of the 60s, endlessly portrayed through a photographer’s lens, inevitably that of her lover, David Bailey.