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The West Midlands' Class of 2025 (part two)

Hilarious comics from Kingswinford and Wolverhampton, plus a phenomenal Staffordshire poet. Nina Das Gupta introduces some of the best creatives we've met in 2025.

Nina Das Gupta unveils the second part of our Class Of 2025, some of the most inspiring and successful creatives where we live, including:

• Kingswinford's king of comedy, Eli Hart, who's picked up one of the biggest prizes in his field.

• Meet the Brummie farmer who's gone from the bread basket of India to the strawberry and asparagus fields of the Vale of Evesham, who invited us to the glitzy red carpet movie premiere of his life!

• When she speaks, we listen. Get to know Emily Galvin-Wilson, who became the first ever female, and youngest ever, Staffordshire poet laureate.

• King's Norton's Hugh Sheehan picked up a British podcast award for his series digging in to a landmark legal case, The Bolton 7. Hear how he made it happen.

• Discover the Wolverhampton-made internet phenomenon which publishes the internet's deepest and most shameful secrets to its millions of followers.

• Dudley writer Kay Louise Bowen shares how she's become a first-time bestseller, after picking up the story left behind by her late mother.

• Get to know the Coventry podcaster who has invited Ed Sheeran and Sean Paul on to his series, and is now blazing a trail in the industry, working on the hit podcasts of the future.

• Meet Harbourne poet Vig, who's made performance an art form, setting up his own nights from scratch, already making a lasting impact on the scene.

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  • P!nk

    Just Like A Pill

    • Just Like A Pill (Clean).
    • SONY.
    • 01.
  • Bastille

    Save My Soul

    • EMI.
  • Take That

    Back For Good

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

    Pokemon

    • Domino Records.
  • Blackstreet

    No Diggity (feat. Dr. Dre & Queen Pen)

    • Street Jams.
    • TELSTAR.
    • 01.
  • Cher

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

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

    WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!

    • 2025 RAYE.
  • Alessi Rose

    First Original Thought

    • Polydor.
  • Pharrell Williams

    Happy

    • Happy.
    • SONY.
    • 01.
  • Lewis Capaldi

    The Day That I Die

    • Vertigo Berlin.
  • Ariana Grande

    One Last Time

    • My Everything.
    • REPUBLIC RECORDS.
    • 01.
  • Callum Beattie

    Pins And Needles

    • Cooking Vinyl.
  • No Doubt

    Don't Speak

    • Don't Speak (single).
    • TRAUMA.
    • 05.
  • Sam Fender

    People Watching

    • Polydor Records.
  • David Guetta, Teddy Swims & Tones and I

    Gone Gone Gone

    • Atlantic Records.
  • Toto

    Africa

    • Rediscover The 70s & 80s.
    • OLD GOLD.
    • 01.

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