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Interview: Aisling Loftus, Nick Preston and Oliver Huntingdon on Television Workshop's new play ' I Had A Wheelbarrow'

Nottingham’s Television Workshop and acclaimed director Shane Meadows are collaborating on I Had a Wheelbarrow, a play about football. Leftlion were invited along to the County Stadium for the filming and met with a hat-trick of Workshop alumni. Aisling Loftus (Sherwood), Nick Preston (Ladhood) and Oliver Huntingdon (Grantchester) kindly tackled the questions…

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The Cavemen

Interview: Stevie Gray comedian and MC at Comedy in the Caves

There's a new venue for stand-up in the city. And it's a cave. Left Lion chats with award-winning comedian Stevie Gray on his bold gamble to shake up Nottingham's comedy circuit... 

Alula Down + Sophie Napthine & Nick Jonah Davis

Comedy In the Caves – Bobby Davro!!

Comedy In the Caves - Michael Shafer – Inappropriate

Comedy In the Caves - Jamie Douglas and Rory Rawson: Rawdoug

Nick Helm: No One Gets Out Alive

Nick Costley- White [jazz]

Nick Mulvey

Shut Up & Write! With Nick Sturgeon

We speak to Alabama 3 about nicknames, The Sopranos theme song, and keeping it very real

Our writer Ria was thrilled - and a little nervous - to speak with Alabama 3 frontman Rob Spragg following the band's triumphant Rescue Rooms show. But nerves were quickly put aside as the conversation turned to nicknames, storytelling and The Sopranos...

The Archaeology Of Nottingham’s Caves

Magic, caves, exhibitions and music: Here's what's on in Nottingham events 6 - 12 January 2025

It might be cold outside, but there's no need to be bored in January. This week in Notts there's magic, exhibitions, caves, live music and more....

Tales From the Caves Exploring Nottingham’s Underground Stories

Review: A Christmas Carol at Nottingham Playhouse

A proper Christmas classic, performed as a one man show by Guy Masterson at Nottingham Playhouse...

Caves, campervans and comedy: the life of a Notts comedy promoter

Ian Whitcombe started off running comedy shows in his local pub and now has big names calling up for a gig. He talks to Left Lion about his role in the Nottingham Comedy Festival, the acts he has nurtured, and his own journey into the land of laughs... 

Nicky Vere Compton and Rubynia Reubens: Freaks and Fools - the Cabaret - Nottingham Comedy Festival

An Evening With Nick Harkaway

Comedy In the Caves

Book Review: The Body In The Library by Graham Caveney

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

Gig review: Nick Mason at the Royal Concert Hall

With a refreshing new set since the last time Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and his band of merry men, The Saucerful of Secrets graced our fair city, LeftLion witnessed something of a renaissance at Nottingham's Royal Concert Hall...

Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets

Comedy In the Caves