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Film review: The Last Spy

Katherina Otto-Bernstein’s insightful documentary ‘The Last Spy’ delves into the life of Peter Sichel, a German-born Jew who served in the United States’ secret service throughout the aftermath of Nazi occupation and throughout the Cold War.

Lastheatre Christmas at Lakeside: the Littlest Yak

Theatre Review: The Last Noel at the Lace Market Theatre

At the Lace Market Theatre, Christmas nostalgia meets the sting of memory,  with nowhere to hide from either...

The Last Noel by Chris Bush

Vona Vella - The 3rd and Last Time!

Gig review: The Last Dinner Party at The Level

Nottingham's Shakespeare Street is lined with hundreds of people dressed in long skirts, corsets and Victorian-esque clothing. Some wear hoodies with red embroidered writing that says From The Pyre. We know we're in the right place: The Level, where the incredible The Last Dinner Party are performing their latest album, released only a few days before...

Theatre Review: The Last Stand Of Mary Whitehouse at the Nottingham Playhouse

Today's youth might think Mary Whitehouse was some cartoonish figure-of-fun. A prude and a bigot, leftover from the Victorian era. Not at all. Known as the most dangerous woman in England at the time, she wreaked havoc. The Playhouse's brand new play shares the horror...  

The Last Noel - Auditions

The Last Stand Of Mrs Mary Whitehouse

Playwright Caroline Bird on writing The Last Stand Of Mrs Mary Whitehouse

The Playhouse continues its streak of consequential new plays with the upcoming The Last Stand Of Mrs Mary Whitehouse, starring Maxine Peake behind those infamous horn-rimmed spectacles. Caroline Bird speaks to Leftlion about how and why she wrote about the 'most dangerous woman in Britain'... 

Save the last dance: how Torvill and Dean put Nottingham on the ice dancing map

Beeston, 14 February 1984. I was fourteen, with nowhere to go for Valentine’s Day and zero interest in ice skating. However, these were the days of four TV channels (and the fourth was quite new), so mass TV events were a must watch. Plus Torvill and Dean were from Nottingham! So, we joined the twenty million to tune in to their Bolero at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics…

LeftLion's Latest Listens #24: Notts music we're currently spinning

In the latest edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens for 2025, our music team reviews new releases from Cappo, Dorothy Ella. GIRLBAND!, The Doctor's Orders Collective and We Are Sovereign...

The Last Horror Show at Backlit is a creepy yet curiously dark delight

Backlit Gallery have just launched their new, Halloween-appropriate exhibition The Last Horror Show, we went along to check out its otherwordly appeal...

Until the Last Drop + Q&a

The Last Dinner Party

Gig Review: The Last Dinner Party at The Bodega

After featuring in our July print issue, The Last Dinner Party took to the Bodega stage on their first UK headline tour...

We Catch Up With the Last Dinner Party Ahead of Their Headline Show at the Bodega

Ahead of The Last Dinner Party's headline show at The Bodega later this month, we catch up with vocalist Abigail Morris, bassist Georgia Davies, and backing vocalist Lizzie Mayland to find out how the band have managed to take the internet by storm with only one single to their name…

'Something Unspoken/Suddenly Last Summer'

Bella Ramsey, Nottingham-Born Star of The Last of Us, Visits LeftLion to Chat Projects, Platforms and Perfecting Performances

Cool. Calm. Composed. The LeftLion team were none of these things when Bella Ramsey, the Nottingham-born star of global HBO sensation The Last of Us, swung by the office recently. Yet all three of these words perfectly describe the nineteen-year-old, who chats openly about fame versus celebrity, taking on beloved characters, and choosing the right projects. Here’s what the super-talented Television Workshopper had to say during an hour-long interview in Sneinton Market…

LeftLion Screen Podcast #8 - Bella Ramsey, Star of The Last of Us

In Photos: The Last of Us Star Bella Ramsey Visits LeftLion

Nottingham's own Bella Ramsey stopped by LeftLion to chat The Last of Us, The Television Workshop and taking on the right projects. The full interview is coming in Issue 158 later this month - but until then, here's some snaps we grabbed on the day... 

Tragicomedy A Last Resort Explores Grief and Love at the Seaside

Writer-director Leanne Davis shares how she channelled the experience of her mother’s early onset of dementia into her debut short film, A Last Resort – an offbeat yet ultimately uplifting tragicomedy set during a British seaside holiday…

Film Review: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

It's the dark horse of the year that nobody saw coming - and those kitten eyes have worked wonders on us too...

Dionne Warwick ‘She’s Back: One Last Time’ Tour 2021

We Chat to David Gill, One of the Last Remaining Blacksmiths in Nottinghamshire

From forging the hammer of Thor, the Norse god of thunder himself, to creating the ploughs that drove the British Agricultural Revolution, blacksmiths have played a crucial role in human history for millenia. Yet now there are only around 600 left in the entirety of the UK. We chat to David Gill, one of the last remaining blacksmiths in Notts, about the importance of the practice, what drew him to his line of work, and why interest in the craft is on the rise…