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Flipping Zombies Vs Alan Sillitoe

Wed 04 Feb 2015

Saturday Fright and Sunday Mourning...

Interview: Alan Davies

Fri 07 Nov 2014

Some might know him from the telly as Stephen Fry’s sidekick on QI, some as the lovable magician-cum-detective Jonathan Creek, but Alan Davies is also a dab hand at stand-up and he’s rolling through town with his new show.....

Alison Moore on short stories

Fri 25 Jul 2014

"I do seem to have an interest in characters who walk willingly into situations they then can't get out of"

Art Works: Jamie Gibson

Mon 10 Mar 2014

"I find that interesting people, from whichever field of work they are in, make better subjects"

Interview: Kenneth Alan Taylor

Thu 19 Dec 2013

Kenneth Alan Taylor has spent a lifetime playing panto dames but he’ll finally hang up his sequined frocks and beehive wigs after this Christmas. More than a man in a dress, he also writes and directs the Playhouse pantos he stars in. His career hasn’t been all fairy dust and glass slippers though, there’s been Coronation Street and ‘serious’ theatre too...

Interview: Alison Moore

Sat 12 Jan 2013

Alison Moore’s unsettling debut novel The Lighthouse explores grief, helplessness and abandonment in a style that threatens to crash against the rocks at any moment. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, it’s the first glimmer from an important new writer...

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is Coming to the Playhouse

Tue 23 Oct 2012

If all you know of Alan Sillitoe is Arthur Seaton and his weekend palaver, you need to get to know Colin Smith, the protagonist of Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Luckily, a bang-up-to-date stage adaptation is coming to the Playhouse this month - and, according to playwright Roy Williams, not much has changed since 1959...

Notts County Season Preview: 2012/13

Wed 15 Aug 2012

"There's every reason to be optimistic, so mid-table obscurity beckons"

Interview: Alan Moore

Tue 07 Aug 2012

Alan Moore: one of the finest exponents of the comic book art form to have ever lived...

Interview: Architects of Air

Fri 06 May 2011

Sticking bits of plastic together for Architects of Air is a rite of passage for many a Nottingham arts graduate. The resulting pneumatic sculptures - known as luminaria - have toured the world, celebrating the beauty of light and colour. This June they’ll be drifting down to land at Lakeside, so time for a chat with AoA’s artistic director Alan Parkinson….

Interview: Alan Fletcher aka Dr Karl Kennedy from Neighbours

Sun 28 Nov 2010

He’s played the world’s favourite doctor for the past sixteen years, been the front man and singer in The Waiting Room for the past five, and would do almost anything for his legions of almost obsessive fans. When we heard that we was heading to The Walkabout in Nottingham as part of a UK tour, we called up Alan Fletcher, AKA Neighbour’s Dr Karl Kennedy, for a quick chat about music, his fans and being referred to as a DILF...

Interview: Jane Streeter

Sun 25 Jul 2010

"I hoped someone would open a bookshop so that I could get a part-time job. That someone turned out to be me"

Alan Sillitoe: 1928-2010

Tue 27 Apr 2010

"Unquestionably the greatest writer to emerge from the region, and certainly one of the master storytellers of his generation"

Alan Sillitoe: His Final Interview

Mon 26 Apr 2010

In the Summer of 2008 our Literature Editor James Walker met up with legendary writer Alan Sillitoe for a cuppa and a chat at Broadway. It was fifty years since his breakthrough novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning had been published, so we decided to devote a whole issue to this seminal work. At the time we didn’t realise this was the last interview he would ever give. It’s an honour to have had that privilege and to know that he read our magazine...

"Oh my God, you’re Alan Sillitoe..."

Sun 25 Apr 2010

Nicola Monaghan met her hero a couple of years ago, and just about managed to hold it down...

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