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• Droitwich's Rik Mayall mural: Behind the design

  A shopfront in his Worcestershire hometown has been transformed in to a piece of art.

  

  Duration: 4:13

• Turning football shirts into puffer jackets

  Julie Herman is married to Shrewsbury Town player, Funso Ojo.

  

  Duration: 4:48

• The Shrewsbury bodyguard turned author

  Kevin Horak's security career involved protecting celebrities and royalty.

  

  Duration: 5:14

• 'Huge' headliners unveiled for Rik Mayall festival

  Greg Davies, Helen Lederer and Shaparak Khorsandi will play the first show in his memory.

  

  Duration: 2:09

• Tough decision on Cannock museum & theatre future

  The fate of the Prince of Wales Theatre & Museum of Cannock Chase is to be decided.

  

  Duration: 6:26

• Life as a TV Extra

  Tile Hill's Jo Kerr shares tales from set, recording as a background artist in Coventry.

  

  Duration: 5:51

• A homecoming performance for one man from Stafford

  Tom Sturgess is playing the lead role in War Horse, showing at The Regent Theatre.

  

  Duration: 4:17

• Trentham writer on getting books on store shelves

  Melanie Seiver, writer of the Polly Pin books, reflects on her work.

  

  Duration: 3:38

• Blurton street artist on a mission to hide hateful imagery

  Sarah Marshall made it her mission to cover over rude graffiti with her own street art.

  

  Duration: 4:43

• Terrible Alsager artist hits fame

  Jamie Lee Matthias has appeared on C4's The Last Leg and painted various celebrities.

  

  Duration: 5:55

• The little book of puns ‘flying off shelves’

  Gems from the collection include 'a thesaurus is great, there's no other word for it'.

  

  Duration: 6:18

• 'We're bringing live comedy back to Worcester'

  Discover the new nights bringing laughs to The Marrs Bar, with a monthly residency.

  

  Duration: 3:28

• The funny side of menopause

  Sarah Stenton uses the subject as inspiration for her stand up.

  

  Duration: 4:14

• Turning an empty shop into a podcast recording

  Russ Payne set up the Talking Tradesman to support people working in building industries.

  

  Duration: 3:48

• Hereford College of Arts, an Oscar and a BAFTA

  James Price told students at his old college: 'Follow your dreams, just like I did!'

  

  Duration: 4:51

• 'Podcasting saved my life'

  Taylor from Stoke, Coventry, credits podcasting with saving his life.

  

  Duration: 4:02

• Stoke Film Theatre reopens in new location

  The Wade Centre in Hartshill is the new home of Stoke Film Theatre.

  

  Duration: 3:05

• Staffordshire photographer showing local beauty has 170k followers

  Rob McGuinness, a local photographer, has an Instagram account with 170,000 followers.

  

  Duration: 3:35

• Joe Lycett celebrates Birmingham around the world

  Comedian Joe Lycett treks across America to celebrate what he loves most... Birmingham.

  

  Duration: 5:21

• Worcester Paint Festival 'more than just city centre'

  Get the latest on this year's street art event set to take Worcester by storm.

  

  Duration: 3:34

• 'We make action films in Ironbridge'

  Karin and Lawrence are from LA and Canada but now run a production company in Shropshire.

  

  Duration: 6:04

• Ben Elton backs Droitwich's Rik Mayall Festival

  The comedian has thrown his weight behind the forthcoming comedy festival.

  

  Duration: 3:15

• The Shropshire movie star

  This week saw the world premiere of Breaking Waves in Oswestry.

  

  Duration: 5:33

• The summer romance novel written in Staffordshire

  Sunday Times and Amazon Books best seller, Phillipa Ashley, discusses her latest release.

  

  Duration: 4:23

• "We've done it! We've made history funny!"

  Author Adam Kay and illustrator Henry Paker chat to young reporter Miles at Hay Festival.

  

  Duration: 3:56

• Moseley dancer gets the attention of millions

  Nat Sweeney decided to entertain the crowd at a Nikki Minaj concert.

  

  Duration: 3:21

• Crewe film tackling knife crime 'epidemic'

  Director Richy Thrower and lead actor Jay Gaston on their film tackling knife crime.

  

  Duration: 4:45

• A TV editor from Coventry talks about working on the latest Netflix offering

  Dan Gage reflects on being part of the new Benedict Cumberbatch film, 'Eric'.

  

  Duration: 6:35

• Stoke-on-Trent's first ever comedy festival

  Comedian Justin Moorhouse, on performing at the festival and his life in the industry.

  

  Duration: 3:35

• Two-Tone celebration in Digbeth

  BBC Radio WM's put on a special evening celebrating 45 years of the Two-Tone scene.

  

  Duration: 3:24

• Goldie Lookin Chain ‘killed in Kidderminster film’

  Discover how the hip hop group got brutally murdered in the new film, Blood Demons.

  

  Duration: 2:36

• Rachel Shenton's 'Potteries Podcast' goes global

  Her podcast, 'Gladstone Girls' is heading to New York's Tribeca film festival.

  

  Duration: 3:49

• Rik Mayall remembered with Droitwich festival

  The actor's hometown is staging a new comedy event to commemorate his life and legacy.

  

  Duration: 2:37

• The mind-blowing balloon models made in Redditch

  Meet Layla who wins awards in her balloon-modelling business, based in Worcestershire!

  

  Duration: 2:40

• 'I didn't go to Birmingham' Frank Skinner

  West Midlands legend Frank Skinner joins Beck Want to discuss '30 Years of Dirt' tour.

  

  Duration: 4:13

• This Town premiere

  This Town is the latest drama from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.

  

  Duration: 3:58

• Steven Knight explores Midland's 80's music scene

  This Town is the story of a group of people who are drawn into the Two-Tone scene.

  

  Duration: 4:49

• Bringing the Swan back to Stourbridge

  Cal The Artist discusses how he put a much loved feature back in Swan Pool Park.

  

  Duration: 2:17

• Stoke scriptwriter has horror film festival debut

  Grant Foxon's latest release is up for awards at the prestigious Romford film festival.

  

  Duration: 7:34

• Behind the scenes at Light Night Worcester

  Take a tour of the incredible installations brightening up Worcester city centre.

  

  Duration: 4:19

• More

  Hear interviews and clips from Andrew Marston's former Upload programme.

  

• Festive poetry: Love Actually Is All Around

  Kenilworth's Charlotte Faulconbridge serves up a thought-provoking Christmas piece.

  Duration: 0:52

• Festive poetry: Shrewsbury Resists The Christmas List

  Claire Brown blends funny, thoughtful, eloquent and feminist in to a brand new original.

  Duration: 1:02

• Festive poetry: Christmas Card Living

  Ross-on-Wye's Ryan Chambers brings us a fresh original, weaving together warmth and wit.

  Duration: 0:57

• Suki Pantal: No Worries, Just Chicken Curries

  The Malvern writer has gone from home cook to a second recipe book in just 18 months.

  Duration: 4:01
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• About

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  Upload is open to submissions all year round, with content showcased every day on our radio stations and on our social and online platforms.
  
  Upload is open to submissions all year round, with content showcased every day on local BBC radio stations and on our social and online platforms. So whatever you create - comedy, fiction, blogs, vlogs, podcasts, videos, poetry, reviews, diaries, anything - we’d love you to upload it!
  
  Upload any kind of content: audio, video, text or images. We especially love video and audio, so writers: if you can record yourself reading your work, that would be brilliant. (If the thought of that fills you with complete dread, you can upload the text of course!)
  
  We’ll watch, read or listen to everything you upload and what catches our attention will go on air or on our digital platforms.
  
  Whether it’s your first creation or you’ve been quietly making stuff for years, upload it.
  
  Don’t worry if you’re not quite sure where it would ‘fit’, that’s our job to sort out. And it doesn’t need to be slick: we’re all about content made at home. We’ll get back to you if we’d like to showcase your work, and we might even help you add some extra polish.
  

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• Get to know Nina

  Nina has presented all over BBC local radio stations in the West Midlands, notably at BBC Radio WM, BBC CWR and BBC Hereford & Worcester.
  
  You might recognise Nina's voice as the queen of travel news on the radio too!
  
  
  She loves supporting the creatives which call our region home and is passionate about the local arts scene, a firm supporter of our schemes at BBC Introducing (for new music) and BBC Upload (for poetry, spoken word, comedy, and so much more). 
  
  Get in touch by emailing [email protected] for any questions, or to share in Nina's love of dogs and all things animals!