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The Zoo Story / Little Dolls

A pair of crime related short plays

A Story of Children and Film

"The mind of a child is beautifully explored, instilling in the viewer a sense of reminiscence"

Future Session 59 - April Towers

New Music, live in session, from Nottingham for Nusic. The latest artist in the Nusic Future Session studio is

The Silly Liars & The Festive Fools

Japanese stylings, fox-faced children and English ducks collide in Chie Hosaka's new exhibition

Steven Dunne - The Unquiet Grave

An interview with the EMBA shortlisted writer about his latest book and his career

Vice

Nick Archer explores the financial difficulties surrounding young parents with bills to pay

The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro

Spider-Man is back with the wrath of not one, not two, but three villains to keep New York safe from

Somewhat Abstract

Nottingham Contemporary's latest exhibition is sitting on the abstract fence

Interview: Torvill and Dean

It’s thirty years since Torvill and Dean became global megastars by getting an unprecedented score in the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics for their Bolero performance. This April they return home for the Dancing on Ice Tour and as part of the NEAT14 festival the Nottingham public will be encouraged to enact a mass Bolero. We put some questions to the duo and take a look back at that moment when they made sporting history…

Interview: Indiana

Whirlwind doesn’t describe the last two years of Indiana’s life - since her first ever live performance at Nusic’s Future Sound of Nottingham gig in April 2012; she’s been signed to Sony, had a second child, is set to release her fourth single and play a hometown gig that’s going to struggle to contain her. Not too shabby for a lass from Long Eaton who likes her pop a darker shade of grey…

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A Fishy Tale

An animation from Notts born Tom Rourke, made for the BBC's comedy sketch show Two Episodes Of Mash

Interview: Pippa Hennessy

Pippa Hennessy is a one woman whirling dervish of creativity whose diary alone is enough to make a busy person’s head spin. She lets us in on the
secrets of her success...

Richard III: Rise To Power

McGibney Productions take on a Shakespeare classic

Switch Studio Billboards

It's time to wave goodbye to the artwork that's brightened up Huntingdon Street for the past three years

Retrograde

A new short film from Nottingham filmmaker Jason Croxall about a young man struggling with amnesia

Paul Kaye on his love for Sid Vicious

Sid Vicious was a sneering, violent, charismatic icon of an era of music that spoke to a disaffected generation. One of those he shouted loudly at was Paul Kaye, an actor and comedian who has graced our screens with his own alter-egos, including Dennis Pennis and Mike Strutter, as well as in dramas such as Game of Thrones and Waking The Dead. As the 35th anniversary of Vicious’ death approaches, he muses on the man and the legend... 

The Return of Poddingham

LeftLion's premier music show is back after a good long winter sleep, and boy is it refreshed

M is for Merry Christmas

This Nottingham short film will be included in the horror anthology, The ABCs of Death 1.5.

Interview: George Akins of Rock City

George Akins lived the dream of every music-loving teenager when he was given the keys to Rock City as his eighteenth birthday present. Since then he’s taken it up a notch by adding more venues, a national promotions company and a roster of acts to his empire. By George, hasn’t he done well?

Nottingham Cinema History

From his first experience of Saturday morning kids’ shows at the pictures, Rick Wilde became hooked on not only films but on how cinemas worked. Beginning his career in 1953 as a four teen-year-old, he worked as a projectionist until 2006. When he joined the business there was 52 picture houses around the city: from the crude conversions of the early 1900s, the gilded Victorian palaces of the 1910s, the art deco continentals of the 1930s, the sophisticated twin and triples of the 1960s and 1970s, to the multiplexes of today - he’s seen it all. A walking encyclopedia of Notts cinema shares his knowledge with us...

History of Nottingham's Savoy Cinema

On 7 November 1935, the Savoy Cinema opened its doors to screen its first film, Flirtation Walk, a musical romance starring Dick Powell. It was likely that only the Lenton locals took any notice of this event because, at that time, there were 52 other cinemas in and around Nottingham. So if it wasn’t that extraordinary then, what is its place in Nottingham today? And how in Cockleman’s name has it survived so long when the others have not?

Since 1843: NTU 170 Years Exhibition

NTU's School of Art and Design celebrates its 170th birthday and to mark the occasion they have invited back some of their most famous alumni to showcase their work in the Since 1843 exhibition…

Interview: Saint Raymond

If anyone can take Jake Bugg’s crown in 2014 our money is on Callum Burrows’ musical alter-ego, Saint Raymond...

Interview: Kenneth Alan Taylor

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...