Gunpowder, treason and Kit
Gunpowder begins on Saturday 21 October on BBC One. The full series will be available on BBC iPlayer, with all episodes available immediately after the broadcast of episode [...]
Culture
Lette gets physical at Althorpe Literary Festival
Julie Teckman looks back on an eye opening Literary Festival at Althorpe … I’m a simple soul at heart and can be kept happy with just a few annual events that [...]
The Gunpowder Plot in Northamptonshire
Mike Ingram takes a forensic look at history’s most famous terror plot and how it was very much a Northamptonshire conspiracy… Everyone knows Bonfire night, but [...]
Rushden Lakes – a walk on the wild side
Caroline Fitton of The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire & Northamptonshire describes how a new shopping development is also a gateway to the natural [...]
Review: Education Education Education, Royal and Derngate, Northampton
By Hilary Scott. @nosylocaljourno Twenty years ago, in 1997, I interviewed the relatively unknown Tony Blair as he was campaigning in Northampton. It was just before the [...]
Jazz Colossus: it’s a band only bigger
Miles Hancock tells the story of the Northampton big band Jazz Colossus… The situation that sparked the idea of Jazz Colossus was quite a simple one really. It was late [...]
What does the tenth dog eat?
Lena has been a music producer, writer and Personal Manager; a photographer and journalist and, over thirty years ago, got together with Caroline Scattergood to create the [...]
Dr Pomatia and the Magnificent Seven
Steve Scoles delivers a self-absorbed musing upon the business of being in a play following his unexpected casting in Northampton Arts Lab’s Lullaby of a Bottlecap [...]
My life as a reluctant activist
An upcoming LGBTQ season at the Errol Flynn Filmhouse prompts Karin Johnstone to reflect on her own part in an historic struggle for civil rights… A few months back I [...]