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Black Grape - It's Great When You're Straight... Yeah! @ 30

Radio Trent DJ to killer

Radio Gaga

N C F Comedy Presents Carl Hutchinson: Greatest Hits!

Deacon Blue | the Great Western Road Trip

Paw Patrol Live - the Great Pirate Adventure

Great Gable

Binks Yard Film Club - The Greatest Showman

"I love an ethical hacker": Overheard in Notts May 2025

Ethical hackers, Yorkshire Terriers and jacket potatoes feature in this month's Overheard in Notts...

Novelist Alison Moore and LeftLion's Andrew Tucker talk connecting Notts to Melbourne in a month long digital residency

For all of its flaws, the internet has become a wonderful tool of cross-country collaboration, allowing the movement of ideas between far-flung time zones and territories. Last year, in a month-long virtual City of Literature residency, LeftLion Literature Editor Andrew Tucker Leavis took a virtual trip down under to explore the imagined meeting of outlaws Robin Hood and Ned Kelly. Here he recounts his experience and talks to fellow Notts writer Alison Moore about what they got up to.

The Great Green Wall

A Projectionist in Notts: The Savoy Cinema's Dave Cox recounts his career in pre-digital cinema

Since 2006, local Dave Cox has worked as the assistant manager of Lenton’s beloved local cinema The Savoy, but he also has decades of experience in the art of film projection, having started as a projectionist long before cinemas went digital. Delightfully, since the start of 2025, Dave’s used that skillset to facilitate The Savoy’s 35mm Films on Film showings. On learning this we were set-a-wondering: what was it like to work as a projectionist over decades, and how was it to return to that field after so many years? Dave was all too happy to tell us...

The Great Detectives - Film Course

Overheard in Notts: March 2025

From the Lion King to lost blueberries, here's what we overheard in Nottingham in April...

The halcyon days of printed matchday programmes and a long-forgotten 1980s Notts County football tournament

In an increasingly technology-driven era in football, Julian McDougall harks back to the halcyon days of the printed matchday programme and a long-forgotten 1980s football tournament Notts County took part in…

Open Studios Notts: Bringing Artists Into View Exhibition

Open Studios Notts: Bringing Artists Into View Exhibition

Open Studios Notts: Bringing Artists Into View Exhibition

Macbeth: David Tennant and Cush Jumbo

LeftLion's Latest Listens #20: Notts music we're currently spinning

In this Easter weekend edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, our music team reviews recent releases from Katie Keddie, Joey Collins, Blu Syrup, Lace Thief and Karen Macleod...

Country Rocks Party @ Southbank Bar Notts

Thrifting in Notts: we chat to Glass Onion, Nottingham’s latest vintage clothing emporium

Following the launch of vintage clothing giant Glass Onion’s new Notts store on Bridlesmith Gate, Fashion Editor Addie Kenogbon-Harley caught up with head of marketing Alice Leadbetter to find out more and explore how vintage clothing and retro styles have had the city in a chokehold for decades.

A Night Of Hungarian Shorts: Presented by Kino Koło Notts

Chicago takes over Notts, unleash your Primal Scream, get creative with Collage N’ Cocktails, and lots more: here’s what’s on in Nottingham this week 7 April - 13 April 2025

With BBC Introducing’s Tom Hewitt and Riley Marsh making appearances in Acoustic Rooms, to 130 years of War of the Worlds and a Broadway classic making its way to Nottingham's Theatre Royal, there is a lot going on this week in Nottingham so make sure to clear your calendars…

LeftLion's Latest Listens #19: Notts music we're currently spinning

In this week's expanded edition of LeftLion's Latest Listens, our music team reviews new releases from Keane Baldwin, KALIKO, Pretty Windows, No Setting Son and Dusty 4 Track...