Comedy from Lee Comley

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

• The unexpected social media sensation from Tamworth, who's picked up an international following with his bright pink mohican and unashamed love of potatoes. Spudman shares how he's a Wurzel at heart and is finding the mash-up of content more appealing than ever.

• She's the Dudley writer who became an unexpected bestselling novelist after finishing the book started by her late mother. Now Kay Louise Bowen is back, armed with the sequel, and even a third!

• Putting the fun in to football, catch-up with Coventry actor and creator Holly Hall, whose deadpan world cup fan interviews have been taking the internet by storm.

• Jon Otway is on, the man who wrote a musical with Rik Mayall, but also achieved considerable success as a singer-songwriter - from the Old Grey Whistle Test to albums produced by Grammy nominees. He's on reflecting on a life grabbed by the scruff of the neck, particularly the neck of a guitar.

• Discover some great poetry from a Cotteridge award-winner, and a Sutton Coldfield writer working out what Shakespeare would have made, of the Birmingham bin strikes.

• Plus live comedy from our stage at the Rik Mayall Comedy Festival, courtesy of the former Eastenders actor turned journalist from King's Norton, who's swapped Albert Square and serious court cases for stand-up stages and the lighter side of life! Discover a hilarious performance from Lee Comley, at our show in the Old Cock Inn.

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