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Huge news for local comedians

Announcing how you could be part of our stage at a massive comedy festival in the West Midlands. Plus King's Heath's Joe Lycett is on! With Nina Das Gupta.

We're celebrating the best creatives where we live with Nina Das Gupta, including:

• Calling anyone with a funny bone in their body in the West Midlands: Keep listening for details of a huge announcement of how you can perform with us at one of our area's biggest comedy festivals.

• Catching up with a modern-day titan of telly and stand-up: Birmingham's Joe Lycett is on, fresh from his surprise appearance at a comedy club in Congleton!

• Even more comedy, courtesy of Rik Mayall-influenced Sham Zaman from Hodge Hill and Hannah Weetman from Castle Bromwich.

• Plus a whole load of romantic fiction. If you've ever wondered what it's like to write in the style of 50 shades without the 'red room', discover a whole new world and top tips from someone who has different pen names depending how spicy her books are! Discover Coventry-born Nuneaton novellist Florence Keeling.

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Music Played

  • Duran Duran

    Ordinary World

    • Ordinary World (cd Single).
    • PARLOPHONE.
    • 03.

  • Lusaint

    Love Bites Back

    • Heavenly Fire.

  • Will Young

    Leave Right Now

    • Leave Right Now (cd Single).
    • BMG.
    • 01.

  • Jennifer Lopez & David Guetta

    Save Me Tonight

    • Warner Records.

  • Danny Wilson

    Mary's Prayer

    • Now Yearbook '88.
    • Now! Music.
    • 10.

  • Alex Warren

    FEVER DREAM

    • ATLANTIC RECORDS.

  • Ellie Goulding

    Love Me Like You Do

    • Love Me Like You Do.
    • POLYDOR.
    • 01.

  • George Ezra

    Blame It On Me

    • Wanted on Voyage.
    • Columbia.
    • 01.

  • Melanie C

    Undefeated Champion

    • Red Girl Media.

  • Oasis

    She's Electric

    • (what's the story) Morning Glory?.
    • CREATION RECORDS.
    • 09.

  • Noah Kahan

    Porch Light

    • Mercury Records.

  • MIKA

    Grace Kelly

    • Life In Cartoon Motion.
    • ISLAND.
    • 01.

  • Ella Langley

    Choosin' Texas

    • SAWGOD/Columbia.

  • Irene Cara

    Flashdance... What a Feeling

    • Flashdance.
    • CASABLANCA.
    • 01.

  • Fatboy Slim

    Praise You

    • Now 1999 - The Millennium Series.
    • NOW.
    • 01.

Broadcasts

  • Thursday18:00
    BBC Hereford & Worcester & BBC Radio Shropshire
  • Thursday19:00
    BBC CWR & BBC Radio Stoke
  • Yesterday18:00
    BBC Radio Shropshire, BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC CWR, BBC Radio Stoke & BBC Radio WM