Award-winning poetry
Discover Harbourne's Vig, and Stoke-on-Trent's Tiara Goonasinghe in full flow. Plus comedian Greg Davies and a long-lost voice of rural Warwickshire, resurfaced. With Lizzie Crow.
Original comedy, podcasts, poetry, fiction and more on BBC Upload with Lizzie Crow in for Nina Das Gupta, including:
• The new film convention arriving to our area, bringing Fast Show writer Charlie Higson and stars of Italian cult movies galore, with Weird Worcester.
• He runs his own poetry nights in Birmingham and is a serious player in the spoken word scene: Get to know Harbourne's Vig, and hear one of his phenomenal pieces.
• Celebrating 100 years of Stoke-on-Trent, rising poet Tiara Goonasinghe shares a piece marking the heritage of her hometown.
• An incredible slice of rural farming life like you've never heard before - thanks to an interview 50 years old, restored from old tape, and showcasing a Warwickshire farmer's memories of the early nineteenth century.
• Concluding our coverage of the Rik Mayall Comedy Festival, at his hometown of Droitwich - hear from Taskmaster and Inbetweeners star Greg Davies - after headlining the whole event.
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Life in rural Warwickshire preserved for the ages
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Miley Cyrus
Easy Lover
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George Benson
Never Give Up On A Good Thing
- George Benson - Classic Love Songs.
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23 minutes ago
Tiara Goonasinghe
A Monument One Hundred Years in the Making
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29 minutes ago
Justin Timberlake
Can't Stop The Feeling!
- Can't Stop The Feeling.
- RCA.
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34 minutes ago
Tiara Goonasinghe
1010101
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42 minutes ago
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Undressed
- Warner Records.
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56 minutes ago
Belinda Carlisle
(We Want) The Same Thing
- Belinda Carlisle Gold.
- Crimson Gold.
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1 hour ago
Ed Sheeran
Azizam
- Atlantic.
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Mabel
Don't Call Me Up
- Don't Call Me.
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Broadcasts
- Today 18:00BBC Hereford & Worcester & BBC Radio Shropshire
- Today 19:00BBC Radio Stoke, BBC CWR & BBC Radio WM
- Saturday 18:00BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio Stoke, BBC Radio WM, BBC Radio Shropshire & BBC CWR