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Heritage Open Days - Connections: a Walking Tour

We Get to Know Local Actress Eve Austin, Star of BBC's This Town

Like many Nottingham born actors, Eve Austin came up through the esteemed Television Workshop: Nottingham’s very own drama school aimed at helping people of all ages develop their acting skills. She’s currently starring in six-part BBC series This Town and we caught up to hear about how she got into acting and the importance of opportunities for young working class people.

Leigh Francis - My First Time Tour

Emily Francis Trio [ Electro Jazz]

We Chat to Framework Night Support Worker Jordan Francis Ahead of Beat The Streets

Ahead of this weekend’s Beat The Streets festival - founded in 2018 by Nottingham promotors DHP in conjunction with Framework - we caught up with night support worker Jordan Francis to find out more about the challenges he faces and the role music can play in shining a light on an a spiralling issue...

We Chat to NTU Graduate and World-Renowned Filmmaker Jeanie Finlay About Her Long-Standing Connection to Broadway Cinema

One of the most notable aspects of Nottingham is the rich film scene and array of fantastic independent cinemas available in the city. We chat to NTU graduate and world-renowned filmmaker Jeanie Finlay about her long-standing connection to Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema, how she got into documentary making, and her latest award-winning film Your Fat Friend…

Football Isn’t Just a Game: How Teaching English to Foreign Players at Nottingham Forest Formed Life-Changing Connections

Emily Boaler was just seven years old when her mum was offered a job teaching English to foreign players at Nottingham Forest. So began a love of languages, football and life-changing connections...

Global Connections

Notts Goes Green: the Art Gallery and Studios Creating New Connections

Keeping on with our Notts Goes Green series, we chat with Suzanne Golden of BACKLIT art gallery and studios - on practising what they preach, creating connections, and engaging the public with their environmental impact.

Benjamin Francis Leftwich

Out of Time: Sir Francis Willoughby and the Construction of Wollaton Hall

Wollaton Hall has been a centrepiece of the Nottingham landscape for just under five centuries, proudly overlooking the city from the summit of its glorious grounds. We take a look at the unique life of Sir Francis Willoughby, a controversial yet influential figure who paid for the construction of the iconic mansion back in 1580...

50 Years Later: The French Connection

Five decades on and we’re still picking our feet in Poughkeepsie…

Review: Patricia Francis’ The Art of Oppression at New Art Exchange

Alex Stubbs checked out Patricia Francis’ The Art of Oppression as it premiered at New Art Exchange

Book Review: Connections by NTU's MA Creative Writing Students

We check out the anthology put together by Nottingham Trent University's MA Creative Writing students...

Film Review: Pope Francis: A Man of His Word

There's bad films, there's terrible films, and then there's this pile of cack... 

Interview: DIY Poets' Francis McMahon

"We want the public to want to read poetry and not see it as an irrelevant art form"

Francis Lowe and the Gotham Fool

Artist Francis Lowe discusses the techniques involved in creating a comic addressing mental illness

Interview: Charles Webster, House Music Legend

He’s got thirty-odd aliases and done umpteen squared remixes and cubed productions. After 25 years making electronic soul, Charles Webster is a bona fide legend of the deep house music for which Nottingham was once world-famous. We dropped in on him to chat about where he’s at, how he got there, and where he’s heading.

Interview: The Austin Francis Connection

The Austin Francis Connection are scattered across the country, but we’re claiming them – Edi Johnston, Jack ‘Hobbit’ Hobbs and Mark Finney - for Notts...