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Comedy from Jackie Kain

Discover the Solihull star who tried stand-up once, got the bug and now tours the country. Plus live poetry from Worcestershire's brand new Poet Laureate. With Nina Das Gupta.

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

• From starting in lockdown to setting up her own publishing company, inspiring countless writers and now becoming the new Worcestershire Poet Laureate, we're in conversation with Worcester's Jay Rose Ana, bringing us some live poetry too.

• Get your glitterball at the ready, Strictly pro dancer Amy Dowden is on the show! Discover how she's set up camp in Cradley Heath, putting a new focus on creativity amongst the dancefloors of Dudley.

• She's the Warwickshire actor on a mission to prove anyone who puts their mind to it, can make it, in front of camera. Get to know Kenilworth's Gemma Strachan, who's picking up film festival gongs galore with her latest on screen effort.

• Plus a load of live comedy from the Rik Mayall Comedy Festival, courtesy of our second stage! From Solihull, Jackie Kain tried stand-up once, got the bug and now tours all over the country. Our Droitwich High Street MC brings the laughs about supermarkets, canals and 80s public information films.

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Music Played

  • Harry Styles

    As It Was

    • Columbia.

  • SIENNA SPIRO

    Material Lover

    • Polydor.

  • Supergrass

    Alright

    • Classic Summer.
    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).
    • 04.

  • Skye Newman

    Man Of The House

    • Columbia.

  • Bon Jovi

    Livin' On A Prayer

    • Now That's What I Call The 80s.
    • Now! Music.
    • 01.

  • Snow Patrol & Kylie Minogue

    These Alarms

    • BMG.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    Are You Gonna Go My Way

    • (CD Single).
    • VIRGIN.
    • 01.

  • Jack Savoretti & KT Tunstall

    Tempting Fate

    • Lanza Music.

  • Lady Gaga

    Poker Face

    • Now That's What I Call Music 73.
    • EMI/VIRGIN.
    • 01.

  • sombr

    My Body Isn't Ready

    • Warner Music Group.

  • Lola Young

    Messy

    • Universal Island.

  • The Script

    The Crowd Was Singing Wonderwall

    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited.

  • Five

    Keep On Movin'

    • Greatest Hits.
    • RCA Records Label.
    • 01.

  • Chaka Khan & Snoop Dogg

    Boogie's In My Soul

    • BMG.

  • Marillion

    Kayleigh

    • Now That's What I Call 40 Years.
    • Now! Music.
    • 01.

  • Adam Lambert

    Under The Rhythm

    • Adam Lambert.

Broadcasts

  • Thursday 18:00
    BBC Radio Shropshire & BBC Hereford & Worcester
  • Thursday 19:00
    BBC Radio WM, BBC CWR & BBC Radio Stoke
  • Today 18:00
    BBC CWR, BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio Stoke, BBC Radio WM & BBC Radio Shropshire