Celebrity Interviews

Celebrity Interview – Sir Tony Robinson

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Celebrity Interview – Adam Buss

October 5, 2021 Alistair Plant

Are we going to spend the rest of our lives bemoaning the fact that something’s not happening or are we as a city going to do something collectively about it? Critics have found it comical that Derby, whose leading entertainment venue has been closed for more than seven years, has submitted a bid to become […]

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Celebrity Interview – Paul Jones of the Manfreds

August 26, 2021 Alistair Plant

Paul Jones laughs a lot as he happily looks forward to the next few months. The singer, harmonica player, actor, radio personality and television presenter has had a stellar career – yet at the age of 79 he’s going on the road again with the band he made his name with, the Manfreds. Not only […]

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Celebrity Interview – Gaynor Faye

July 1, 2021 Alistair Plant

Eighteen months after last appearing on the stage of Nottingham’s Theatre Royal, Gaynor Faye is coming back to the city which she says has a “special place in my heart”. That’s because the 49-year-old actor who is recognisable for stints in two television soap operas began her professional career in the city in 1992. She […]

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Celebrity Interview – Jenna Russell

May 26, 2021 VickyP

She’s a regular in the West End where she won one of the most prestigious awards in showbiz, she’s worked on Broadway and she took over as one of the main characters in the BBC soap EastEnders. Now Jenna Russell is coming to Nottingham. The actress and singer will play French cabaret performer and chanteuse […]

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Celebrity Interview – Sir Tony Robinson

February 23, 2021 VickyP

Actor, comedian, writer, television presenter and political activist: that’s how many people know Sir Tony Robinson, famous for playing Baldrick in the BBC TV series Blackadder and hosting the archaeological investigation programme Time Team for 20 years. Millions more now know him for a completely different reason: travelling more than 100 miles from his west […]

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Celebrity Interview – Rachel Swann

September 23, 2020 VickyP

It’s a situation only a select number of people have experienced: waiting for the Prime Minister to ring. The circumstances in which Rachel Swann was preparing to address Boris Johnson were certainly unusual: she was responsible for the largest peace-time evacuation of civilians in the UK in the hope of averting an unparallelled disaster. At the […]

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Celebrity Interview – James Graham

August 25, 2020 VickyP

Quiz question: Who is James Graham? Is he (a) the writer of the TV drama about the coughing scandal on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?; (b) a collaborator working on a new musical with Elton John; (c) the winner of an Olivier Award for a comedy; or (d) the man who penned an episode […]

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Celebrity Interview – Val McDermid

March 27, 2020 Alistair Plant

Her books have sold 16 million copies worldwide, been translated into 40 languages and recently her work topped the fiction, non-fiction and children’s book charts all in the same week. But Val McDermid isn’t sitting back basking in her success: she’s always looking for new challenges. The 64-year-old crime writer is working on her next […]

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Celebrity Interview – Susan Boyle

January 30, 2020 VickyP

More than ten years on from her unforgettable rendition of I Dreamed A Dream from the musical Les Misérables, Susan is heading out on tour to do what she loves most of all: singing to an audience. When she stepped onto the Britain’s Got Talent stage, few people could have imagined the impact she would […]

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Celebrity Interview – Tara Fitzgerald

September 26, 2019 VickyP

‘Prism is at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre from 3rd – 12th October and at The Theatre Royal, Nottingham from 21 – 26 October’Tara admits she always gets nervous: “It’s always been the same as far back as I can remember. Excitement and the desire for something to be good are the drivers and inevitably make […]