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From home videos to international reach: Get to know Worcestershire's content creator supreme. Plus Alsager's hat-making social media superstar. With Phillip Stoneman.

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

• The Feckenham filmmaker who's gone from growing up on the Alcester Road with camcorder in hand, to presenting on MTV, hosting huge Channel 4 documentaries, and going well and truly viral. On a rare visit back home from his new base in the Big Apple join Oobah Butler in conversation, sharing tips on navigating the ever-rolling conveyor belt of content, and finding your voice in front of camera.

• One day she'd love to put a hat on Beyoncé - discover why that's not so far-fetched for Alsager's Holly Johnson, with a fresh-faced approach to handmaking headgear winning her tens of thousands of followers online.

• Catching up with the extraordinary new Poet Laureate for Coventry, whose journey begins watching speedway at Brandon to becoming published several times over - via a Rwandan village still healing from genocide.

• What connects a giant fire-breathing organ to boxes pulsing to the live heartbeats of people in the second city? The answer - we reveal it all - with the grand return of a huge free event in Birmingham this weekend.

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Last on

Sat 14 Feb 202618:00
BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio Shropshire, BBC Radio Stoke & BBC CWR

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Music Played

  • U2

    Pride (In The Name Of Love)

    • U218 Singles.
    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).
    • 05.

  • Robbie Williams

    All My Life

    • Britpop.
    • Sony Music.

  • Dodgy

    Good Enough

    • Good Enough - The Very Best Of Dodgy.
    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).
    • 01.

  • Arlo Parks

    2SIDED

    • Trangressive Records.

  • Shaggy

    It Wasn't Me

    • NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 48.
    • EMI VIRGIN UNIVERSAL.
    • 05.

  • Squeeze

    You Get The Feeling

    • Love Records Ltd.

  • Andrea Mbarushimana

    Emergency Rescue Poem

  • Prince & The Revolution

    Purple Rain

    • THE QUIET STORM.
    • UNIVERSAL.
    • 04.

  • Starship

    Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

    • Starship Enterprise.
    • Rhino.
    • 01.

  • Charlie Puth

    Beat Yourself Up

    • Atlantic.

  • Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble

    This Is Me

    • The Greatest Showman.
    • WARNER BROS.
    • 01.

  • Stephen Sanchez

    Sweet Love

    • Stephen Sanchez.

  • Soft Cell

    Tainted Love

    • New Romantic Classics.
    • VIRGIN.
    • 05.

  • Taylor Swift

    Opalite

    • TS/Republic.

  • The Verve

    The Drugs Don't Work

    • The Drugs Don't Work.
    • Hut.
    • 01.

Broadcasts

  • Thu 12 Feb 202618:00
    BBC Hereford & Worcester & BBC Radio Shropshire
  • Thu 12 Feb 202619:00
    BBC Radio WM, BBC CWR & BBC Radio Stoke
  • Sat 14 Feb 202618:00
    BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC Radio Shropshire, BBC Radio Stoke & BBC CWR