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Nadia on… Punch by James Graham

Wed 07 Jan 2026

Nottingham Labour MP Nadia Whittome talks about the real-life story behind James Graham's hit West End stage show Punch...

Theatre Review: Dear England at Theatre Royal

Thu 25 Sept 2025

Dear England, the National Theatre play about Gareth Southgate and his journey as England manager, arrives at Nottingham's Theatre Royal as part of its 160th birthday celebrations...

Theatre and TV legend James Graham talks bringing Notts to the screen and writing about Gareth Southgate

Tue 02 Sept 2025

James Graham is one of British theatre’s most popular and prolific writers and also the creator of BBC TV drama Sherwood. He was born and brought up in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, in the 1980s -his first job was working the stage door at the Theatre Royal. Twenty years on, James returns to the city with the epic Dear England, a play about football manager Gareth Southgate, which headlines the theatre’s 160th birthday celebrations…

LeftLion Interviews Podcast #12: Writer James Graham on Dear England, Sherwood, Broadway, London theatre and writing for stage and screen

Mon 25 Aug 2025

Our latest episode is a conversation with the Notts-born Showrunner of BBC TV's Sherwood, who is taking Notts to New York stages and returning home to celebrate the 160th Birthday of Nottingham's Theatre Royal...

Book Review: The Body In The Library by Graham Caveney

Fri 19 Jul 2024

Though brutal and decidedly unromantic, Graham Caveney’s new ‘memoir of a diagnosis’ is told with remarkable tenderness and wit.

The Loneliest Fear Of All: Graham Caveney Talks His New Book On Agoraphobia

Wed 15 Jun 2022

Still recovering from a Government-ordered lockdown, it’s no surprise that agoraphobia has been on our minds more than ever before, especially with so many of us being nervous to leave the house. But even with the additional press, the phobia is still a widely misrepresented one, not even fully understood by those experiencing it. In the hopes of learning more, our writer Lizzy O’Riordan read Nottingham author Graham Caveney’s new book On Agoraphobia, and chatted with him about feelings of loneliness, the history of the disorder, and how literature’s agoraphobics acted as his ‘salvation’...

Writer Graham Caveney Reflects on Growing Older

Thu 22 Apr 2021

Writer Graham Caveney, author of The Priest They Called Him: The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs and Screaming with Joy: The Life of Allen Ginsberg, shares his reflections on the process of growing older...

Confetti Industry Week 2020: Stephen Graham, Jeanie Finlay and Julian Foddy

Mon 09 Mar 2020

Confetti's Industry Week is now in its 14th year, giving students the chance to hear from experts in film and television. We checked out the highlights...

Comedian Ivo Graham Talks Australia Travels Ahead of Nottingham Glee Club Performance

Mon 23 Apr 2018

Comedian Ivo Graham has been treading the boards of the nation's comedy clubs since 2009, when he decided stand-up was more exciting than studying for a degree in languages. While he's yet to really use his 2:1 in a professional capacity, the Eton and Oxford-educated graduate nonetheless has developed a style of comedy that uses his clear love of words to clear comedic effect. His latest solo show is Educated Guess is showing on Thursday 3 May 2018, at The Glee Club, Nottingham...

An Evening with Graham Caveney

Fri 16 Mar 2018

We went to Beeston’s Middle Street Resource Centre for a Q&A with Graham Caveney, led by Deirdre O’Byrne and Ross Bradshaw of Five Leaves...

SciBar at The Vat & Fiddle: Graham Law on The Science and Myths of Sleep

Mon 02 Oct 2017

To sleep, perchance to dream - Professor Graham Law from the University of Lincoln comes to SciBar with his talk Sleep Better: The Science of Sleep Myths.

Graham Caveney on Abusive Relationships, Alcoholism and His New Book

Wed 06 Sept 2017

Graham Caveney had success in the nineties as a journalist for publications like NME, The Face, The Independent, and loads more. He moved on to writing biographies of beat writers Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, then he completely disappeared. Two decades later, he’s back with a book that looks at the abuse inflicted on him as a child, by a priest: The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness: A Memoir of an Adolescence…

UNESCO City of Literature: Graham Joyce

Tue 19 May 2015

"Writers don't have a life, they sit in a room making up other people's lives and it's bloody hard work"

UNESCO City of Literature: Graham Joyce

Tue 19 May 2015

"Writers don't have a life, they sit in a room making up other people's lives and it's bloody hard work"

Graham Fellows

Sun 01 Mar 2015

Folk and funerals with John Shuttleworth, aka Graham Fellows

Graham Fellows

Sun 01 Mar 2015

Folk and funerals with John Shuttleworth, aka Graham Fellows

Interview: Winston Graham

Thu 26 Feb 2015

Equipped with a cheeky grin and a bag full of vinyl, Winston Graham (aka Winnie, DJ Win, and Mr Blender) has been spinning certified Motown, soul, dub and reggae bangers on the Nottingham circuit since 1974. A born and bred Radford lad, and now back on the scene, we had a natter about all things Notts, as well as the iPod and laptop plague.

Graham Joyce (22 October 1954 - 9 September 2014)

Thu 11 Sept 2014

Winner of the British Fantasy Award an incredible seven times and a genuinely lovely chap. Goodbye, you crazy diamond.

Last Shop Standing

Sun 10 Apr 2011

Graham Jones has probably visited more record shops than anyone else on planet earth. He started working as a distributor for Proper, the largest independent music distribution company in the UK, over two decades ago. Since then he has watched his customers struggle to survive in a market of online downloads and corporate dominance. And written a book about it…

Interview: Skinnyman

Thu 25 Nov 2004

"I think Cappo is wicked, Tempa is skill and Scorzayzee is just too much! That guy is on fire"

Graham Coxon

Wed 02 Jun 2004

With a reputation for being one of the most talented guitarists around he has managed to keep his playing firmly in the foreground of his solo material.

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Nadia on… Punch by James Graham

Theatre Review: Dear England at Theatre Royal

Theatre and TV legend James Graham talks bringing Notts to the screen and writing about Gareth Southgate

LeftLion Interviews Podcast #12: Writer James Graham on Dear England, Sherwood, Broadway, London theatre and writing for stage and screen

Book Review: The Body In The Library by Graham Caveney

The Loneliest Fear Of All: Graham Caveney Talks His New Book On Agoraphobia

Writer Graham Caveney Reflects on Growing Older

Confetti Industry Week 2020: Stephen Graham, Jeanie Finlay and Julian Foddy

Comedian Ivo Graham Talks Australia Travels Ahead of Nottingham Glee Club Performance

An Evening with Graham Caveney

SciBar at The Vat & Fiddle: Graham Law on The Science and Myths of Sleep

Graham Caveney on Abusive Relationships, Alcoholism and His New Book

UNESCO City of Literature: Graham Joyce

UNESCO City of Literature: Graham Joyce

Graham Fellows

Graham Fellows

Interview: Winston Graham

Graham Joyce (22 October 1954 - 9 September 2014)

Last Shop Standing

Interview: Skinnyman

Graham Coxon

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