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Andrew Marston introduces our area's biggest success stories

Festive sessions and stories with Carol Decker, Robbie Williams, Robert Plant and Peter Hook, plus Albrighton’s Nieve Ella and Music News from across our area. With Andrew Marston.

Andrew Marston introduces some festive sounds to this holiday period and rounds up some incredible sessions from some of our area's biggest success stories, including:

• Live music from Carol Decker of T’Pau, teaming up with the BBC Concert Orchestra, as she reflects on the early days of van tours from Shrewsbury to London and the advice she gives to new artists to reach the charts.

• Robbie Williams, Stoke-on-Trent born and bred, reflects on a 30-year career that proves anyone from humble beginnings can reach the top of the charts and become one of the most talked-about musicians on the planet.

• In our Musicians’ Masterclass: finding your voice without losing it, Albrighton’s Nieve Ella sits down with vocal coach Lorna Blackwood to share what touring, festivals and real life taught them about protecting your voice.

• We hear from Kidderminster’s Robert Plant, who went from tarmacking roads in the Black Country to redefining rock music with Led Zeppelin, and is now mentoring a new generation of Worcestershire musicians with his band Saving Grace.

• In our Music News: A Worcester man who left submarines to open a new record store, a Bridgnorth musician behind the most played dance record in America, and a Stoke-on-Trent pop star who made a 94-year-old’s wish come true.

• We trace Peter Hook’s path from a working-class Cheshire childhood to post-punk pioneer with Joy Division and New Order, sharing the highs, the losses, and the music that changed everything.

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Music Played

  • Track of the Week

    • Pale Eyes

      Insidious

  • Prophet ט Teth

    Love Cast Out All Fear

    • 10617999 Records DK.
  • Interviewed

    • T’Pau & BBC Concert Orchestra

      China In Your Hand

    • T’Pau & BBC Concert Orchestra

      Lose Control

  • Featured on the BBC Introducing Instagram channel

    • Cherryshoes

      Too Late

  • Meg Lee

    Gypsy

  • BBC Introducing's First Play

    • Tim Atkins

      She's So Funny

  • Jules Rendell

    It Came Upon The Midnight Clear (Hallelujah)

  • Interviewed

    • Robbie Williams

      Old Before I Die (Live from BBC Maida Vale)

    • Robbie Williams

      Pretty Face (Live from BBC Maida Vale)

  • Bo Walton & Red Alert

    My Sweet Lainey

    • Jump Jack Records.
  • Elizabeth Bonds

    After The Rain

  • Interviewed

    • Robert Plant with Saving Grace

      Everybody's Song (Later... with Jools Holland)

    • Robert Plant with Saving Grace

      Higher Rock (Later... with Jools Holland)

  • Luca Pensa

    Stay Here

  • Sugarthief

    Sea Camels

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  • Sat 27 Dec 202520:00

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