Fabulous Christmas poetry
Discover our area's finest writers and their offerings for Christmas 2025. Plus Coventry comedian and actor Holly Hall serves up fresh sketches. Phillip Stoneman sits in.
We're celebrating the best creatives where we live, with Phillip Stoneman in for Nina Das Gupta, including:
• We put the call out and you answered in your droves! A whole load of feel-good fresh festive offerings from our area's best writers, including RSC regular Nicholas Asbury, Ross-on-Wye's Ryan Chambers, Coventry's Joe Reynolds, Telford's Steve Harrison, Kenilworth's Charlotte Faulconbridge and Shrewsbury's Claire Brown.
• Taking us behind the scenes of an Olivier award-winning live science production coming to our area, we chat to the team behind Brainiac Live, coming to a stage near us, which could be the perfect alternative to crimbo-limbo cabin fever.
• The Worcester, Dudley and Hereford filmmakers who have created their own award-winning mockumentary that puts a Midlands twist on a David Brent-esque character, taking him on the road, but this time, investigating the paranormal. Discover how they ended up winning a top prize at a hugely prestigious international film festival, when they didn't even enter the award in the first place!
• Fresh Christmas comedy comes from Coventry's Holly Hall, sharing the ins and outs of life on screen, on stage and managing the never-ending conveyor belt of content.
• Channelling Dawn French's Vicar of Dibley, Miranda Hart's Miranda and the ensemble cast of Riot Women, get to know the Warwickshire writer bringing the funny out of awkward festive encounters.
• A double dose of a Shrewsbury twist on The Night Before Christmas, courtesy of writer Hazel Meredith-Lloyd, warming us by the winter fire with some festive cosy crime.
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Clips
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Festive poetry: Love Actually Is All Around
Duration: 00:52
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Festive poetry: Shrewsbury Resists The Christmas List
Duration: 01:02
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Festive poetry: Christmas Card Living
Duration: 00:57
Music Played
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Band Aid
Do They Know It's Christmas?
- The Christmas Compact Disc.
- NOW.
- 01.
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5 Seconds of Summer
Everyone's A Star!
- Republic Records.
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Spandau Ballet
Gold
- Now That's What I Call Gold.
- Now! Music.
- 09.
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Ryan Chambers
Christmas Card Living
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RAYE
WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!
- 2025 RAYE.
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The Jacksons
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
- Universal-Island Records Limited.
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Mumford & Sons & Hozier
Rubber Band Man
- Island Records.
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Steve Harrison
Christmas Dinners
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Meghan Trainor
Gifts For Me
- RCA.
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Ariana Grande
Santa Tell Me
- Christmas Kisses.
- UNIVERSAL MUSIC.
- 01.
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Bastille
Save My Soul
- EMI.
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Fred again.. & Obongjayar
adore u
- Atlantic.
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Nicholas Asbury
Christmas Bauble
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Alessi Rose
First Original Thought
- Polydor.
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Queen
Thank God It's Christmas
- Queen: Greatest Hits 3.
- EMI.
- 11.
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Claire Browne
Shrewsbury Resists The Christmas List
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Blind Joe Reynolds
Christmas In A&E
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Taylor Swift
The Fate Of Ophelia
- The Life Of A Showgirl.
- TS Republic.
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Katy Perry
Cozy Little Christmas
- Cozy Little Christmas.
- VIRGIN.
- 01.
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Charlotte Faulconbridge
Love Actually Is All Around
Broadcasts
- Thu 18 Dec 202518:00BBC Hereford & Worcester & BBC Radio Shropshire
- Thu 18 Dec 202519:00BBC CWR, BBC Radio WM & BBC Radio Stoke
- Sat 20 Dec 202518:00BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio Stoke, BBC Radio Shropshire, BBC Radio WM & BBC CWR




