Looking Up Sheffield

By: Loz Harvey
  • Summary

  • A monthly meander around Sheffield's amazing history, people and buildings.
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Episodes
  • Looking Up Sheffield Season 2, Episode 2: High Rise To Success
    May 26 2021
    "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 and beetroot salad from South Street Kitchen next door.

    In this episode, Dan tells how Airship, far from being grounded during the pandemic, was able to soar to new heights, employing new Kickstarters and recruiting new hospitality businesses from Sheffield and beyond to its online platforms and track and trace app. We asked Dan about the future of hospitality in Sheffield and also what he thought about the future for the city centre and the closure of John Lewis.

    And on a departmental store tip, our ambient architecture feature Building Of The Month focuses on a Fargate institution, showing that big names leaving the High Street is nothing new. Enjoy!

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    18 mins
  • Looking Up Sheffield Season 2, Episode 1: Cities of Dust
    Apr 16 2021

    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 was a building, all to a relaxing ambient backdrop).

    And our interview is with Martin Dust on his new book Brutal Sheffield. Exploring the hitherto unexplored link between punk and concrete, Martin explains how we're not as brutal as we once were, but how it might hold the key to Sheffield's creative recovery from the pandemic.

    And on the subject of recovery, that will be an inevitable recurring theme in S02 as we explore how the city reemerges triumphantly in 2021. Much like this podcast then.

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    28 mins
  • Looking Up Sheffield Episode 10: 50 Shaves of Greg
    Dec 17 2020

    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 inaugural person of the year.

    We speak to Greg at around 17mins in, via shakey phone, as he looks back on a year like no other and looks ahead to 2021.

    We also shine a light on the other #Sheffheroes we've been profiling on Insta and Twitter. From community shops to volunteers, markets to halloumi wraps in Hillsborough, Naked Podcasts to Chakra Lounges, Jarvis to Otis and raves in caves to beers in parks, we cram a whole lot in.

    We speak to Jen from The Naked Podcast and food bank volunteer Andy to hear what makes them Look Up Sheffield.

    And that, as the Orange Bird might have it, is a wrap. Back in Spring 2021, podding in a different year and different world. Til then, look up Sheff! Love Nic and Loz, Kieran and Al xx




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    42 mins

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