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

• Back from the world's biggest arts festival - your round up of the incredible acts from our area and the packed shows they played at - from Birmingham's award-winning Sam Nicoresti, Bromsgrove's Hasan Al-Habib and the team from Improv Wolves.

• The Halesowen author whose books saved someone's life! Discover author Lisa M Billingham who's gone from hobbyist to bestseller in five years.

• Details of a brand new performance space opening up in North Worcestershire - a stone's throw away from the M42 - promising three state-of-the-art recording studios and a new haven for spoken word acts in the West Midlands.

• Checking out a brand new podcast, made in Malvern, from the metalhead bringing World War II to your ears as you've never heard before.

• For fans of fast-paced adventure, meeting the author from Shropshire of what's turned out to be his tenth book... convinced to publish his own by his grandchildren, who he used to write stories for when they were little!

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