Looking Up Sheffield Loz Harvey

"There used to be lines on the floor outside places like Park Hill and the Kelvin," says Airship's Dan Brookman. "You couldn't throw a telly past the red lines and the green lines meant it was safe to walk underneath." Luckily that's all changed and Dan's hospitality business has taken flight in a ground floor space at Park Hill. Brutal no longer, the complex is now home to filmmakers, artists and digital innovators. We drank oatmilk lattes, but we could just as easily had a quinoa...

We finally got our podcast chops in gear for season two of the popular peoples' podcast (note the apostrophe placing) and what a cracker it is. While we pretend to look after our respective children, Loz and Nic talk positively about other people's rubbish and what might become of John Lewis. We introduce a new feature, Building Of The Month, with the fantastic Heritage Sheffield, where he talks about his love of the White Building in Fitzalan Square (like the Beatles' White Album if that too...

Our little podcast has made it to episode 10, just in time for Christmas. A year where life has changed for everyone. But none more so than Sheffield's director of health Greg Fell. 2020 has seen him leading the city's response to Covid-19. In our TV screens, on You Tube and across the city, Greg has issued practical and no-nonsense advice to Sheffielders. It is for this, his many different Shaves, flock wallpaper and fleet FACT (Fell Always Cuts Through) that he is Looking Up Sheffield's ina...

Boxing is, of course, in Sheffield’s DNA. From the Bomber to Brook, it has produced its fair share of gloved-up heroes. But the real heroes are operating out of a former school which was in serious danger of falling into dereliction. Then again, so were some of the people who have all lined up to credit De Hood with turning their lives around.Reagan Denton is a man with a colourful back story. A British boxing contender in Frank Maloney’s stable, he ended up swapping the ring for a ...

Meet Bally, the Speakeasy creator. He’s one of a trio of people doing great things in the previously less than thriving Castlegate area that we feature on this episode. Last time around we focused on the buildings that are making the area swing again, from the Old Town Hall to the Terminal warehouse and the Grey to Green scheme, but this podcast is nothing without the people that are making the change happen.In podcast eight he takes us on a journey in sound, recorded naturally enough in his ...

Podcast guest Simon Ogden didn't let the Covid restrictions stop his plans to put Castlegate, the ancient heart and beating digital future of Sheffield, into the spotlight.Normally he's planning a week long jam of events and parties which celebrate the area and its ongoing regen. Forced to think differently, he's taken to his hard hat and kayak to take you into the hidden spaces we walk past everyday and never acknowledge. In this podcast we give an exclusive look at the three films...