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“Did you see Bohemian Rhapsody?” Kathy Sledge asks me from New York. “Oh my gosh, I think Rami Malek was just amazing.” What you learn from that film, says the youngest member of the original Sister Sledge, is that Freddie Mercury was unapologetic about his talent. She was different, feeling “almost guilty” as a lead singer...

Award-winning venue The Tythe Barn in Launton is inviting you to step inside its gorgeous 14th Century barn to experience its very first pretend wedding day...

As Artweeks bursts into life across Oxfordshire (4th-27th May), hundreds of artists open their studios, inviting you in to see the places where they design and create unique works of art – from delicate jewellery to grace the smallest digit to giant sculpture to dominate a formal garden. And amongst these artists, you can meet photographers who capture memories and motion, panoramas and people with techniques old and new...

 For generations Oxford’s honeyed streets and Oxfordshire’s rolling green landscapes have inspired artists and writers – from JW Turner to Philip Pullman – and the Ridgeway and the Thames, the Clumps and the Cotswolds continue to inspire creatives to put pen to parchment and paint to paper...

Zaatari hails from Lebanon and his practice often, although not exclusively, relates to the creation and dissemination of images in Arab societies. He also explores how individuals choose to present themselves in front of the camera. They often project facades which are very different to their ordinary lives, even if this just means wearing large sunglasses, or posing with an advertising cut-out of a model...

“Nobody wants to be average these days,” says Eleanor Conway. “We either want to be amazing or shit. Even when we’re shit, we’re like, ‘Everyone thinks I’m shit.’ That’s still high ego, isn’t it? That’s still thinking everyone’s looking at you. It’s weird, a bit of a headfuck.” 

More than 15 years after opening Off-Broadway – and on the back of five years in the West End as well as three hit tours – Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez’s Avenue Q is on the road again...

Now in its 9th year, Lechlade Festival returns over the bank holiday weekend from 24th to 26th May 2019. The Feeling burst onto the British pop scene in 2005 and enjoyed a string of Top 10 hits, including: Sewn, Rosé, Fill My Little World, Love it When You Call & Never Be Lonely.  The band will perform these and more from their Twelve Stops and Home Album which was recently reissued celebrating its 12th anniversary...