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Interview: Chris Needham

If you've never seen In Bed With Chris Needham, I feel both sorry and jealous of you. The former because it is unquestionably the greatest TV programme ever, and the latter because one day you will see it with fresh eyes. It's the kind of programme that makes you want to club yourself into amnesia so you can see it for the first time again and again

Interview: The Cockleman

"I'm not too keen on the whelks meself, but they’re very good for keeping your wife quiet for a bit"

A Canadian in New Basford and the Goth Plumber

"If you’ve got a coffin in the back of the hearse, that helps. You do get some strange looks though when you’ve got a bath in there"

24-Hour Arty People

BritFilms gathered 30 film crews and set them the task of creating and delivering a short film in just 24 hours. LeftLion were there to follow one plucky team throughout
the process, blogging live via mobile phone. Here’s what happened...

Interview: Thompson Brothers

"We’ve seen the world. We’ve been to Ireland and we’ve been to Crete, and we don’t want to see the rest"

Samantha Morton at Broadway Cinema

"I spoke in a really broad Notts accent when I met Woody Allen, you can take the girl out of Notts, but you can’t take the Notts out of the girl"

P Brothers

"You have to have a strong reason for putting any kind of music out there, don’t just dash it out for the sake of it!"

The Orphanage Drop In The Ocean Festival Built

We paid a visit to Cambodia and the children’s shelter in Phnom Penh that your beer money from the Drop In The Ocean Festival helped to build…

Why I Became A Magpie

When I walk my dog on the local park every day I try not to become too disheartened by the number of kids wearing Chelsea, Arsenal, Man Utd and Liverpool shirts

Drop In The Ocean Shelter

We paid a visit to the children’s shelter in Phnom Peng that The Drop In The Ocean Festival helped to build…

Stupod #1

Rosa introduces her new show aimed towards the studying residents of Notts.

Seven rising stars from Television Workshop

Samantha Morton might get all the press, but here are seven other rising stars from the Television Workshop in Nottingham...

Interview: Late of The Pier

"When you don’t really know how to play an instrument, in some ways, you end up being more creative or at least experimental"

Interview: Chuck Palahniuk

"Every book represents a portion of your life, kind of like a scrapbook. Fight Club is like reading a journal from fifteen years ago"

Nottingham Playhouse Turns Sixty

Nottingham Playhouse: into its sixtieth year, and more than just the building that wears the Sky Mirror like a big earring

A Canadian in New Basford Does Alternative Freshers Week

An alternative freshers' week, designed to help students blend in with the locals. Each day, you will take on the habits of a local...

Students Who Stayed

Apparently, Nottingham has the highest level of student retention in the UK – our students are more likely to stay here after they graduate than anywhere else. Lazy-arsed wasters trying to cling onto their halcyon days of cheap booze, or indisputable proof that Nottingham is ace? We spoke to three people who decided to stick around after their course…

May Contain Notts: Aug-Sept 2008

Robin Hood quits, Council buy Jaguars, Adlington wins gold medal, DG installs CCTV, 73-year-old jailed for concrete attack and Forest fans banned

Interview: Vent Media

"When it comes to VJing, I haven’t got a problem with cutting up films that people know because it is just like musical sampling"

Interview: Jimmy Sirrel

Legendary Notts County manager Jimmy Sirrel has died. Here's an interview we did with him last year...

Bar Wars: Revenge of the Staff

This is what happens when you piss off the bar staff on a Saturday night...

Street art photos from Tom Quigley

Tania Glyde on Binge Drinking

"We must be one of the few societies in the world where two people can go on a first date, get so drunk they puke and end up getting married"

S. Mark Gubb

"The eighties was possibly one of the crappest decades, with The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, the miners strike, Thatcher’s Britain..."

Interview: Sir Ian McKellen on Playing Arthur Seaton

Before becoming a national treasure, Sir Ian McKellen was the first actor to play Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’s Arthur Seaton on stage. He did this as part of the Nottingham Playhouse’s inaugural season in 1963-64. It was in a ten-week run that rammed out the new building and delighted critics and audiences alike…