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OULC open letter: Oxford must continue lecture recordings for disabled students

2nd July 20202nd July 2020Myesha Munro

Image description: OULC logo on top of an illustration of a student looking onto a lecture theatre portrayed as a glass box Oxford University Labour Club (OULC) have written and circulated an “Open Letter on the Provision of Lecture Recordings for Disabled Students”, written by their disabilities representative. The open letter (signable here), posted on […]

A tale told by plastic bags: National Theatre’s Macbeth tour at the New Theatre

9th January 201922nd January 2019Alice Williams

It’s not easy to produce a convincing Macbeth; what is simply breath-taking on the printed page may well come across on stage as simply breathless. Beginning with a semi-prologue that barely lasts a page and a half, I can’t help but always feel jolted into the play. The reading eye can pass over the suddenness […]

Meet Sports Team: the Rising Stars, with Guitars, Thinking Big

16th November 201816th November 2018Connor Thirlwell

Images courtesy of Sports Team/Nice Swan Records/Holm Front Records. Description: indie sextet Sports Team, posing. By the time I meet up with Sports Team at the Cowley Retreat ahead of their last support slot on tour with the Magic Gang, they have only been professional musicians for two months. That these bunch of Cambridge graduates […]