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Backstage at the 麻豆社 New Comedy Award finals

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

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

鈥 Going backstage at The Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham with all six finalists of this year's prestigious 麻豆社 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 Al茅sh茅.

鈥 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'.

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

鈥 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 麻豆社, bbc.co.uk/uploadwestmidlands

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Last on

Sat 16 Nov 2024 18:00

Music Played

  • Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor

    Freedom Of The Night

    • Decca Records.
  • Wham!

    Freedom

    • Wham - The Final.
    • EPIC.
    • 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鈥 Joy

    Dreamer

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

    Rock With You

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

    Summer Of '69

    • So Far So Good.
    • 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 - Hits.
    • VIRGIN.
    • 02.
  • Sabrina Carpenter

    Taste

    • Polydor.

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