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Backstage at the BBC New Comedy Award finals

Original comedy, podcasts, poetry, fiction and more on BBC Upload with Nina Das Gupta. Upload your work for a chance to get on the BBC.

We're celebrating the best creatives where we live, including:

• Going backstage at The Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham with all six finalists of this year's prestigious BBC New Comedy Award. Hear from Marty Gleeson, Jake Donaldson, Paul Hilleard, Dane Buckley, Maia Tassalini and Jonathan Oldfield, who have tips for everyone wanting to follow in their footsteps, plus head judge, Babatunde Aléshé.

• Discover horror filmmaking's latest rising star, straight out of the black country, with his latest project, described as 'the Blair Witch Project meets a historic theatre in Walsall'.

• Catching up with the award-winning Coventry podcaster who says recording his conversations whilst having waffles 'saved his life'.

• The team behind the Redditch and Solihull-made dog podcast, whose audio series has turned in to a book!

Upload your work for a chance to get on the BBC, bbc.co.uk/uploadwestmidlands

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Sat 16 Nov 2024 18:00
BBC CWR, BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio Shropshire, BBC Radio Stoke & BBC Radio WM

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Music Played

  • Sophie Ellis‐Bextor

    Freedom Of The Night

    • Decca Records.

  • Wham!

    Freedom

    • Wham - The Final.
    • Sony Music UK.
    • 07.

  • Ella Henderson

    Filthy Rich

    • Atlantic.

  • Nickelback

    How You Remind Me

    • Now 51.
    • EMI/VIRGIN/POLYGRAM.
    • 01.

  • Lady Blackbird

    Like A Woman

    • BMG.

  • Robbie Williams

    Millennium

    • Millennium (single).
    • CHRYSALIS.
    • 01.

  • Livin’ Joy

    Dreamer

    • Now 31.
    • UNIVERSAL/ISLAND.
    • 01.

  • Michael Jackson

    Rock With You

    • Michael Jackson Number Ones.
    • EPIC.
    • 01.

  • Bryan Adams

    Summer Of '69

    • Bryan Adams: Anthology.
    • A&M.
    • 01.

  • Lottery Winners & Reverend and the Makers

    You Again

    • Modern Sky.

  • Amy Winehouse

    Back To Black

    • Amy Winehouse- back To Black (single).
    • ISLAND.
    • 01.

  • Jungle

    Let's Go Back

    • Caiola Records.

  • Mike + the Mechanics

    Over My Shoulder

    • Mike & The Mechanics: The Singles 1985-2014 (2014 Remaster).
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited.
    • 02.

  • Sabrina Carpenter

    Taste

    • Polydor.

Broadcasts

  • Thu 14 Nov 2024 18:00
    BBC Hereford & Worcester & BBC Radio Shropshire
  • Thu 14 Nov 2024 19:00
    BBC Radio Stoke, BBC CWR & BBC Radio WM
  • Sat 16 Nov 2024 18:00
    BBC CWR, BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio Shropshire, BBC Radio Stoke & BBC Radio WM