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LitFest buzzin’ all weekend: ‘We had a ball’

05 October 2025
LitFest buzzin’ all weekend: ‘We had a ball’

LitFest buzzin’ all weekend: ‘We had a ball’

05 October 2025

MLF’s 16th year saw a packed programme of more than 45 bookish events for all ages and tastes, including big names and first-time authors.


Clocking in for the Tiny Ideas Festival

04 October 2025
Clocking in for the Tiny Ideas Festival

Clocking in for the Tiny Ideas Festival

04 October 2025

Wardrobe Ensemble entertain large family audience with The Time Seekers. Jon Lewis reviews.


Distillation of creative process emerges when chair is made performer in Theatre Re’s Moments

04 October 2025
Distillation of creative process emerges when chair is made performer in Theatre Re’s Moments

Distillation of creative process emerges when chair is made performer in Theatre Re’s Moments

04 October 2025

All is revealed in Moments, reviewed in Oxford.


86-year-old High Society Jazz Band leader Graeme Hewitt’s still pulling them in at Theale

03 October 2025
86-year-old High Society Jazz Band leader Graeme Hewitt’s still pulling them in at Theale

86-year-old High Society Jazz Band leader Graeme Hewitt’s still pulling them in at Theale

03 October 2025

The next lunchtime session at the village hall on Tuesday brings back band’s regular trumpet player Mike Henry.


Contribute to a fantastic community artwork to celebrate 10 years of City Arts

03 October 2025
Contribute to a fantastic community artwork to celebrate 10 years of City Arts

Contribute to a fantastic community artwork to celebrate 10 years of City Arts

03 October 2025

Running between 10am and 8pm, 10 Hours of Art is a special community project to make an exciting wall hanging.


Visitors vote for their favourite print at Newbury Photography Club’s 80th Anniversary Exhibition

03 October 2025
Visitors vote for their favourite print at Newbury Photography Club’s 80th Anniversary Exhibition

Visitors vote for their favourite print at Newbury Photography Club’s 80th Anniversary Exhibition

03 October 2025

A total of 428 votes were cast for 40 prints covering a variety of themes from some of the favourites of 23 club members.


Wandering thespians mingle with ghosts of the past to investigate true life murder

03 October 2025
Wandering thespians mingle with ghosts of the past to investigate true life murder

Wandering thespians mingle with ghosts of the past to investigate true life murder

03 October 2025

Resurrection Players’ fun Gun Club Murder Mystery at Wash Common Community Festival.


A spoonful of sugar: choir on song at West Berkshire Community Hospital

03 October 2025
A spoonful of sugar: choir on song at West Berkshire Community Hospital

A spoonful of sugar: choir on song at West Berkshire Community Hospital

03 October 2025

Supercalifragerlistic InCantata entertain patients and visitors.


‘A wonderful soulful voice and a great performer’, catch Chloe du Pre at Pangbourne Jazz

02 October 2025
‘A wonderful soulful voice and a great performer’, catch Chloe du Pre at Pangbourne Jazz

‘A wonderful soulful voice and a great performer’, catch Chloe du Pre at Pangbourne Jazz

02 October 2025

Stylistically at home in all genres, she will perform on vocals and piano with the Terry Hutchins Quartet.


What’s on this week in West Berks: your community listings

02 October 2025
What’s on this week in West Berks: your community listings

What’s on this week in West Berks: your community listings

02 October 2025

If you are organising a charity or community event and would like to be included in these free listings, email us details .


What’s on in West Berks?

02 October 2025
What’s on in West Berks?

What’s on in West Berks?

02 October 2025

Our pick of this week’s arts & entertainment.


The Figure, Bird, Stone and Tree: new show by Kingsclere artist Paul Risoe

02 October 2025
The Figure, Bird, Stone and Tree: new show by Kingsclere artist Paul Risoe

The Figure, Bird, Stone and Tree: new show by Kingsclere artist Paul Risoe

02 October 2025

‘Visits to Australia and the Gandhara sculptures in Oxford’s Ashmolean museum have been influences on the work in this Marlborough exhibition’.


Meet Paddington and Downton star Hugh Bonneville as he signs copies of his hilarious first children’s book

02 October 2025
Meet Paddington and Downton star Hugh Bonneville as he signs copies of his hilarious first children’s book

Meet Paddington and Downton star Hugh Bonneville as he signs copies of his hilarious first children’s book

02 October 2025

Rory Sparkes and the Elephant in the Room perfect for eight years-plus.


Café at the heart of community arts

01 October 2025
Café at the heart of community arts

Café at the heart of community arts

01 October 2025

Sharon Rosegrace advocates coffee and cake at the warm, welcoming and caring café at City Arts.


Bestsellers to blockbusters: Robert Harris has much to discuss

30 September 2025
Bestsellers to blockbusters: Robert Harris has much to discuss

Bestsellers to blockbusters: Robert Harris has much to discuss

30 September 2025

A rapt Corn Exchange audience has a glimpse of what it takes to achieve such transitions.


Newbury’s violin & bow maker Philip Brown gives Albert Einstein’s violin a bit of TLC

30 September 2025
Newbury’s violin & bow maker Philip Brown gives Albert Einstein’s violin a bit of TLC

Newbury’s violin & bow maker Philip Brown gives Albert Einstein’s violin a bit of TLC

30 September 2025

Instrument going up for auction, where it is estimated to fetch up to £300,000.


Hot off his incredible Oasis summer tour, Richard Ashcroft is announced as first Englefield 2026 headliner

29 September 2025
Hot off his incredible Oasis summer tour, Richard Ashcroft is announced as first Englefield 2026 headliner

Hot off his incredible Oasis summer tour, Richard Ashcroft is announced as first Englefield 2026 headliner

29 September 2025

He will be joined by Shed Seven, Kasabian’s Tom Meighan and The Kairos.


George Brown breaks 11 world and 16 British speed records on Greenham Common

29 September 2025
George Brown breaks 11 world and 16 British speed records on Greenham Common

George Brown breaks 11 world and 16 British speed records on Greenham Common

29 September 2025

Andy Kempe’s play When Nero Burnt Down the Common to be broadcast on radio this week.


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28 September 2025
Here’s how to sign up to read our weekly news, views, reviews and previews

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28 September 2025

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Mastermind. Code breaker. Maverick. Alan Turing was arguably one of the most important and inquisitive minds of the 20th century.

28 September 2025
Mastermind. Code breaker. Maverick. Alan Turing was arguably one of the most important and inquisitive minds of the 20th century.

Mastermind. Code breaker. Maverick. Alan Turing was arguably one of the most important and inquisitive minds of the 20th century.

28 September 2025

Breaking the Code: a new epilogue speaks to Turing’s lasting legacy on modern Britain.


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