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Brazil's Queen of Samba, a pioneer for female Samba singers and composers, danced to the age of 96. She also spent a long and influential career in occupational therapy and psychiatry in her homeland.

Introducing our new hot main meal menu.

Plus, on Thursday, November 14, Huel will be visiting the café to showcase their 'nutrition' brand and give away free samples.

Image: Annibale Carracci, The Bean-eater

Sea Song is the first track on the album Rock Bottom which Robert Wyatt released after becoming paraplegic following an accidental fall from a window. He has said that the accident saved him because he had become an alcoholic and was heading for disaster.

Mince pies for only 50p in the Café.

Starting Friday, November 1st, enjoy any hot drink and add a mince pie for only 50p after 2 pm in the Café.

Using Teya to pay? If not, now’s the perfect time to start. With our new stamp card promotion, buy 9 hot drinks or hot meals and get the 10th free.

The Cure are back, looking much as they did in 1979 when they produced this post-punk masterpiece. Lyrics and song meshing to perfection. It's what music is about.

Known as the 'James Bond one' by aficionados, this is one of hundreds of obscure, small label soul tracks from sixties America that were adopted by the Northern Soul scene in the UK, many of them absolute bangers.

Yvonne's voice on the chorus...

Start your day right at Café Pi: buy any hot drink and enjoy a pastry for £1. 

This offer is available before 11am.

Are you dancing?

Nicola Pedreschi was a postdoc in Oxford Mathematics until the summer. But like several Oxford Mathematicians he is a musician, in Nicola's case in the band Eveline's Dust. So here is the lead single from their new album. This is their website.

"If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break..."

This song was made famous by Led Zeppelin, but the original was written by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929, two years after the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 which killed hundreds and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes.