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Author Archives: Alannah Burdess

Alannah Burdess (she/her) is Junior Interviews Editor at The Oxford Blue. She is in her second year, studying Classics at Trinity College and is greatly involved in her college community, running the debating society to the JCR instagram. When not writing for The Blue, Alannah can be found coxing on the Isis or wandering around the Ashmolean.

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The Oxford Blue in Conversation with Toto Wolff

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Impossible Interviews: If We Could Interview Anyone

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Otmar Szafnauer on Aston Martin’s return to Formula One, Drive to Survive and the future.

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I’m A Female Classicist, Get Me Out Of Here!: Who Runs The World?

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The Physicist Behind the Turl Street Orchestra: In Conversation with Dr. Felix Tennie

Alannah Burdess Dec 15, 2025 6 min read
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“If I had no music, I wouldn’t be as productive of a physicist. Whenever I don’t get to make music for a time, I become…

Snow

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‘If something is frozen we say it’s unchanging — that it stays.’ Nina Sablan’s creative piece about snow and its effects on our landscape. Image…

Who am I? Finding my identity between two languages

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That person, no matter what they do in the present, will always be defined by what they did. In the country where I was born,…

Outside OX1 Week 8: End of Term Special

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