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'My books save lives'

Readers of Halesowen writer Lisa M Billingham have recovered from mental ill health. Discover her infectious positivity and affirmatory style. With Nina Das Gupta.

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

• Back from the world's biggest arts festival - your round up of the incredible acts from our area and the packed shows they played at - from Birmingham's award-winning Sam Nicoresti, Bromsgrove's Hasan Al-Habib and the team from Improv Wolves.

• The Halesowen author whose books saved someone's life! Discover author Lisa M Billingham who's gone from hobbyist to bestseller in five years.

• Details of a brand new performance space opening up in North Worcestershire - a stone's throw away from the M42 - promising three state-of-the-art recording studios and a new haven for spoken word acts in the West Midlands.

• Checking out a brand new podcast, made in Malvern, from the metalhead bringing World War II to your ears as you've never heard before.

• For fans of fast-paced adventure, meeting the author from Shropshire of what's turned out to be his tenth book... convinced to publish his own by his grandchildren, who he used to write stories for when they were little!

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Sat 30 Aug 202518:00
BBC Radio Stoke, BBC CWR, BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio WM & BBC Radio Shropshire

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Music Played

  • David Bowie

    Ashes to Ashes

    • ChangesTwoBowie (2017 Remaster).
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 13.

  • Chappell Roan

    The Subway

    • Chappell Roan PS/Island.

  • James Morrison

    Broken Strings (feat. Nelly Furtado)

    • Broken Strings (single).
    • POLYDOR.
    • 01.

  • Jonas Brothers & Dean Lewis

    Loved You Better

    • Republic Records.

  • Pulp

    Common People

    • Common People EP.
    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).
    • 03.

  • Reverend and the Makers & Vicky McClure

    Haircut

    • Distiller Records.

  • Whitesnake

    Here I Go Again

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

  • Coldplay

    Hymn For The Weekend (feat. Beyoncé)

    • A Head Full Of Dreams.
    • PARLOPHONE.
    • 01.

  • Luke Combs

    Back In The Saddle

    • Seven Ridges Records.

  • Harry Styles

    As It Was

    • Columbia.

  • Lola Young

    d£aler

    • Island Records.

  • Take That

    Back For Good

    • Take That Greatest Hits.
    • RCA Records.
    • 01.

  • Lewis Capaldi

    Survive

    • Vertigo.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Everywhere

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Rhino/Warner Records.
    • 01.

  • Myles Smith

    Stargazing

    • RCA.

  • Oasis

    Roll With It

    • ROLL WITH IT (CD Single).
    • CREATION RECORDS.
    • 01.

Broadcasts

  • Thu 28 Aug 202518:00
    BBC Hereford & Worcester & BBC Radio Shropshire
  • Thu 28 Aug 202519:00
    BBC Radio Stoke, BBC Radio WM & BBC CWR
  • Sat 30 Aug 202518:00
    BBC Radio Stoke, BBC CWR, BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio WM & BBC Radio Shropshire