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The Brummie singer brings Pink Sunshine to the airwaves in the band's first biography. Plus inspirational new year poetry from Stoke's Steven K Beattie. Phillip Stoneman sits in.

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

• Bringing a load of pink, pink sunshine to the airwaves: Catching up with Vix, from the original line-up of Fuzzbox, from Moseley and now based in Shropshire, taking us back to the 80s with the band's first ever authorised biography.

• Fresh for the new year - a whole load of inspiration, courtesy of the Bradeley writer who's gone from being prescribed poetry to cope with mental health difficulties, to becoming the incoming Staffordshire Poet Laureate.

• The smash hit podcast, made in Warwickshire, that's just celebrated its 300th episode. Discover how Roll Britannia began as a lockdown bit of fun between six mates, and has evolved in to sponsors, signings and huge live shows.

• With a second series of the award-winning Time Of The Week, meet creators Jonathan Oldfield and Lorna Rose Treen from Redditch, who give us an insight in to character comedy made for radio.

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Music Played

  • Take That

    Pray

    • Take That - Everything Changes.
    • BMG.
    • 01.

  • RAYE

    WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!

    • 2025 RAYE.

  • The Killers

    Somebody Told Me

    • Now 60.
    • BEGGARS BANQUET.
    • 01.

  • Taylor Swift

    Opalite

    • TS/Republic.

  • Deacon Blue

    Dignity

    • Raintown.
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 01.

  • JERUB

    Kumbaya

    • Elevate Music Ltd.

  • Lady Gaga

    Bad Romance

    • Now That's What I Call Music 75.
    • NOW.
    • 01.

  • Myles Smith

    Stargazing

    • RCA.

  • One Direction

    What Makes You Beautiful

    • Now 80.
    • EMI.
    • 01.

  • Aerosmith & YUNGBLUD

    Wild Woman

    • Island.

  • The Cranberries

    Linger

    • Now Yearbook 1993.
    • Now! Music.
    • 06.

  • The Lottery Winners

    Your Last Song

    • Modern Sky UK.

  • Eagle‐Eye Cherry

    Save Tonight

    • NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 40.
    • EMI/VIRGIN/POLYGRAM.
    • 03.

  • David Guetta, Teddy Swims & Tones and I

    Gone Gone Gone

    • Atlantic Records.

Broadcast

  • Yesterday18:00
    BBC Radio Stoke, BBC CWR, BBC Radio Shropshire & BBC Hereford & Worcester