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Director Alison Rashley talks us through Television Workshop's best known actors

Workshop Director Alison Rashley talks through some of the Television Workshop’s best known actors and gives the lowdown on what they were like to teach…

Happy Mondays - Celebrating 35 Years of Pills’N’Thrills and Bellyaches

Jake Martin

Ben Martin Quartet Presents Full Gas [ the Great American Songbook]

MARTIN STEPHENSON & THE DAINTEES

Ben Martin Quartet Presents Full Gas [the Great American Songbook]

Inside The Correction Unit, a new sci-fi thriller made in Notts

Released on 23 September, The Correction Unit is the latest project from talented Nottingham-based filmmaker Derry Shillitto. The film follows a group of young offenders forced into a brutal correctional system with an AI, voiced by Bella Ramsey, at the centre. When one teen starts resisting the institution, questions arise surrounding control and human rights. To find out more about the production, which has featured almost entirely Notts talent, we spoke to Derry and young actor Zak Hopkinson.

In photos: Belly at Rescue Rooms

Fenella Humphreys, Violin, Martin Roscoe, Piano

An Evening with Belly - King's 30th Anniversary

Stage Review: Matthew Bourne's The Midnight Bell at the Theatre Royal

An intoxicating cinematic escape to 1930s Soho...

Left Magpie: August 2025 The First Match

Julian McDougall is back with his thoughts on the opening game of the season (Notts County v Newport)...

Left Magpie July 2025: Going to the Match with Stuart Maynard, Martin Paterson and LS Lowry

Our monthly Notts County column is back after a hiatus and now penned by Julian McDougall, formerly of the beloved Notts County fanzine The Pie and currently of the excellent When Saturday Comes magazine. Here he muses about the appointment of Martin Paterson and the nature of supporters in the “Lowry-esque’ setting of Meadow Lane...

Bsl Exhibition Tour With Martin Glover

Theatre maker Natalie Bellingham brings her one woman show to Nottingham

Ahead of her upcoming solo performance at Lakeside Arts, where comedy meets life’s biggest transitions, Emma Oldham caught up with Natalie Bellingham to uncover the hidden layers behind Look After Your Knees...

James Martin Live

Hips Don’t Lie: we hear from belly dancer Marija Zinkevica about the upcoming Belly Dance Festival and building connection with the body through dance

After a career in computer science, Marija Zinkevica swapped life behind the screen for days onstage: teaching belly dance in Nottingham and performing in competitions around the world. Ahead of the first Belly Dance Festival at the start of March, we caught up with Marija to hear how this ancient dance can build confidence, community and a deep connection with the body.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Voices Of the Kingdom and Matamando at University Hall

Mad Dog Barks: Martin Allen Unleashed

Bsl Exhibition Tour: Martin Glover

Bellowhead

Gig review: Martin McAloon of Prefab Sprout at Metronome

From playing bass guitar in much-love art-rock band, Prefab Sprout, Martin McAloon has stepped forward to centre stage. Suffering from retinal and tinnitus issues, his brother Paddy is no longer able to tour live, so, in a heart-warming tribute, his younger brother has swapped four strings for six to breathe new life into the best of the Durham act’s material...

Martin McAloon (Prefab Sprout)

Claire Martin With the Martin Sjöstedt Trio [jazz]

Matt Ratcliffe Trio Ft Helen Gayle & Ben Martin | the Beatles Songbook [jazz]