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Comedian Mark Simmons

The one-liner stand-up star shares the secret to cracking the toughest audiences. Plus a ground-breaking new podcast, made in Willenhall. With Nina Das Gupta.

We're celebrating the best creatives where we live, including

• An exclusive chat with future stand-up star, Mark Simmons, fresh from performing in Stourbridge, talking us through the art of perfecting his arsenal of one-liners.

• Catching up with the married couple and influencing duo from Solihull - whose relationship was a day away from falling apart! Cat and Jimmy Sims talk about their new book, The Mental Load Diaries.

• The incredible Worcester poets launching a brand new poetry night - a safe space for the LGBTQ+ community - and award-winning in their own right.

• The Willenhall podcaster who teases the interesting out of the every day with his guests, making true on his promise 'everyone has a book inside them'.

• Catching up with the Edinburgh fringe-bound, award-winning improv troupe from Wolverhampton - who have something special to ask us.

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Sat 12 Jul 2025 18:00
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Hereford & Worcester, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio WM, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Stoke, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ CWR & ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Shropshire

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Music Played

  • James

    Sit Down

    • The Best Anthems... Ever.
    • VIRGIN.
    • 07.

  • Lewis Capaldi

    Survive

    • Vertigo.

  • Lene Marlin

    Sitting Down Here

    • Sitting Down Here (single).
    • VIRGIN.
    • 22.

  • Pulp

    Got To Have Love

    • Rough Trade.

  • Starship

    Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

    • Starship Enterprise.
    • Rhino.
    • 01.

  • Teddy Swims

    God Went Crazy

    • Atlantic Records.

  • Amy Winehouse

    Rehab

    • Back To Black.
    • Universal-Island Records Ltd.
    • 01.

  • Mark Ronson & RAYE

    Suzanne

    • Columbia.

  • Backstreet Boys

    I Want It That Way

    • Backstreet Boys: The Hits - Chapter One.
    • Jive.
    • 01.

  • Mariah Carey

    Type Dangerous

    • Gamma.

  • EMF

    Unbelievable

    • Awesome 2 - Various Artists.
    • CHRYSALIS.
    • 01.

  • Benson Boone

    Mystical Magical

    • Night Street Records Inc/Warner Records Inc.

  • Yazoo

    Don't Go

    • In Your Room (2008 Remaster).
    • MUTE RECORDS.
    • 02.

  • Sam Ryder

    OH OK

    • Artist Theory.

Broadcasts

  • Thu 10 Jul 2025 18:00
    ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Hereford & Worcester & ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Shropshire
  • Thu 10 Jul 2025 19:00
    ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio WM, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ CWR & ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Stoke
  • Sat 12 Jul 2025 18:00
    ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Hereford & Worcester, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio WM, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Stoke, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ CWR & ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Shropshire