Making the menopause hilarious

Original comedy, podcasts, poetry, fiction and more on BBC Upload with Nina Das Gupta, including:

• Making the menopause hilarious: We meet the stand-up from Much Wenlock who's gone viral with her take on middle-aged female life.

• Staffordshire photographer Rob McGuinness on life having followers in the hundreds of thousands, and being championed by the official Instagram itself!

• Exploring the importance of independent bookstores to the grassroots scene, including an award-winning venture in the heart of Worcester that has had the seal of approval from Johnny Depp. Discover Worcester's Script Haven, and chief creative Leena Bachelor.

• A fantastic piece of poetry, made in Coventry, helping us to put a spring in our step through January, from writer Amy Rugg.

• From 16th century witch trials, Davy Jones' locker and the rattle of Marley's chains - we step in to a dose of folklore extraordinaire, courtesy of a new podcast from Shropshire surveying the myths of our area's witches, in The Shropshire Witches Podcast.

• And he's been spotted filming in south Worcestershire and Warwickshire - we catch up with Father Brown himself, Bromsgrove-born actor Mark Williams - talking us through filming one of TV's hottest and longest running properties.

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