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BBC New Comedy Awards winner 2025

Discover Kingswinford's Eli Hart, following in an illustrious line of comedians. Plus the latest from Warwick Arts Centre and the Tile Hill actor in Wicked. With Nina Das Gupta.

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

• A first interview with this year's winner of the BBC New Comedy Awards: From Kingswindford, we're introducing you to Eli Hart.

• Secrets from the set of Wicked: For Good, courtesy of the Coventry actor who might be responsible for Ariana Grande popping up in his hometown of Tile Hill! Get to know actor Demitri Lampra.

• How the doors of one of our area's biggest venues, Warwick Arts Centre, are being flung open this weekend, plus how you can get involved, all for free.

• "I made a film with actors I met when my plane got delayed at Birmingham Airport!" The extraordinary story of The Real Gone Kid, and Dudley's Rita and Reece Jagpal-Mohan.

• One of the voices of Paw Patrol, Julie-Ann Dean, takes us inside her home studio in Kenilworth.

• As we fling ourselves in to pantomime season, take a behind-the-scenes of Kidderminster's Rose Theatre, in bringing some of their magnificent stage creations to life.

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Image credit: BBC/Phil McIntyre TV/Dani Riot

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Sat 29 Nov 202518:00
BBC CWR, BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio Shropshire, BBC Radio WM & BBC Radio Stoke

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Music Played

  • Katy Perry

    Roar

    • Roar.
    • CAPITOL.
    • 01.

  • Westlife

    Chariot

    • Westlife - 25 The Ultimate Collection.
    • Sony Music UK.

  • New Radicals

    You Get What You Give

    • Reloaded.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 01.

  • 5 Seconds of Summer

    Everyone's A Star!

    • Republic Records.

  • Chappell Roan

    Good Luck, Babe!

    • Amusement/Island Records.

  • Myles Smith

    Nice To Meet You

    • RCA.

  • The Stranglers

    Golden Brown

    • Stranglers - Singles, The UA Years.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 18.

  • Olivia Dean

    Man I Need

    • Capitol.

  • Tina Turner

    The Best

    • Now That's What I Call Gold.
    • Now! Music.
    • 12.

  • Mumford & Sons & Hozier

    Rubber Band Man

    • Island Records.

  • Toploader

    Dancing In The Moonlight

    • Dancing In The Moonlight (cd Single).
    • SONY SOHO SQUARE.
    • 01.

  • Wet Leg

    Pokemon

    • Domino Records.

  • Oasis

    Wonderwall

    • Wonderwall.
    • Big Brother Recordings.
    • 01.

  • Ed Sheeran

    Sapphire

    • Atlantic.

  • Cher

    The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

    • Cher: Forever Fan.
    • Warner Records.
    • 18.

  • Scouting for Girls

    These Are The Good Days

    • Near Wild Heaven Records.

  • The Police

    Every Breath You Take

    • Synchronicity (Remastered 2023).
    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).
    • 01.

Broadcasts

  • Thu 27 Nov 202518:00
    BBC Radio Shropshire & BBC Hereford & Worcester
  • Thu 27 Nov 202519:00
    BBC CWR & BBC Radio Stoke
  • Sat 29 Nov 202518:00
    BBC CWR, BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio Shropshire, BBC Radio WM & BBC Radio Stoke