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The podcast taking martial arts to the masses

Original comedy, podcasts, poetry, fiction and more on BBC Upload with Nina Das Gupta. Upload your work for a chance to get on the BBC.

Original comedy, podcasts, poetry, fiction and more on BBC Upload with Nina Das Gupta, including:

• They take martial arts out of the dojo and into the ears of the masses - in the next ten minutes we're meeting the brains behind the kickboxing podcast made in Telford and going global!

• One-liner king comedian Milton Jones is on with tips on crafting that routine, and making joke after joke.

• Finding out why the West Midlands - and in particular Stourbridge - is the epicentre of the world's horror films, with the Black Country Horror Film Festival open again for submissions.

• Picking the brains of a giant of the world of poetry, John Cooper-Clarke.

• We meet the Redditch woman taking the world by storm through her incredible, inflatable artistry.

• And hearing from the stars of the brand new BBC podcast, fronted by music legend Pete Waterman, looking at the impact of 2Tone on Coventry, Birmingham, and the West Midlands.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 30 Mar 202418:00
BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio Stoke, BBC CWR & BBC Radio Shropshire

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Music Played

  • The Boo Radleys

    Wake Up Boo!

    • Now That's What I Call 40 Years.
    • Now! Music.
    • 10.

  • Tom Grennan

    All These Nights

    • Insanity Records.

  • Ariana Grande

    yes, and?

    • Ariana Grande.

  • The B‐52s

    Love Shack

    • Now That's What I Call Pop Gold.
    • Now! Music.
    • 12.

  • Galantis, David Guetta & 5 Seconds of Summer

    Lighter

    • Atlantic.

  • Coldplay

    Adventure Of A Lifetime

    • Adventure Of A Lifettime.
    • PARLOPHONE.
    • 01.

  • Anne‐Marie

    UNHEALTHY (feat. Shania Twain)

    • Atlantic.

  • R.E.M.

    Shiny Happy People

    • Now Yearbook 1991.
    • Now! Music.
    • 06.

  • Olly Alexander

    Dizzy

    • Polydor.

  • Teddy Swims

    Lose Control

    • Warner Records.

  • Happy Mondays

    Step On

    • Now That's What I Call An Era.
    • Now! Music.
    • 05.

  • FLO

    Walk Like This

    • Island Records.

  • George Ezra

    Blame It On Me

    • Wanted on Voyage.
    • Columbia.
    • 01.

  • Taylor Swift

    Is It Over Now (Taylor's Version)

    • Taylor Swift.

  • New Order

    Regret

    • Glorious (Various Artists).
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 01.

  • Calvin Harris & Rag’n’Bone Man

    Lovers In A Past Life

    • Columbia.

Broadcasts

  • Thu 28 Mar 202418:00
    BBC Hereford & Worcester & BBC Radio Shropshire
  • Thu 28 Mar 202419:00
    BBC Radio Stoke, BBC Radio WM & BBC CWR
  • Sat 30 Mar 202418:00
    BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio Stoke, BBC CWR & BBC Radio Shropshire