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Poppy Cooks: The potato queen

Discover how Worcestershire chef Poppy O'Toole went from redundancy to social media stardom. Plus the grand return of Borderlines Film Festival. With Nina Das Gupta.

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

β€’ She's the Bromsgrove chef made redundant during the pandemic and has become social's media's queen of spuds! Get to know Poppy O'Toole, better known to her millions of online followers as Poppy Cooks, blending a decade of Michelin level cuisine with a straight-talking, all-welcome approach to getting busy in the kitchen.

β€’ By order of the Peaky Blinders: We're on the red carpet meeting the stars and fans of possibly the biggest ever film to come out of Birmingham.

β€’ It's one of our area's biggest film festivals: 25 venues over 16 days, discover how the grand return of the Borderlines Film Festival is bringing the Oscar-winners of the future to the most rural parts of the West Midlands.

β€’ A hilarious piece of comedy made in Shrewsbury that captures the dread every parent feels when they come across the unique mix of three normally simple and harmless words - of World, Book and Day - courtesy of Joe Edwards and Spellbound Productions.

β€’ Perilously travelling thousands of miles for a destination otherwise unknown: Discover the eye-opening short, In The Shadows, made by Telford's King Davies Dogbe, picking up film festival screenings for fun.

β€’ Big news for anyone who knows a funny young person in their life - with details on how you could perform at one of our area's biggest comedy festivals this summer in Droitwich.

β€’ Deep dives in to unspoken rules, strange rituals, the messy, the taboo and the occasionally gruesome side of not being alive: Discover the Castle Vale podcasters winning international fans with their frank and funny conversations on one of life's trickiest subjects. Meet the team behind It's A Death Podcast.

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Music Played

  • Haddaway

    What Is Love

    • WHAT IS LOVE (CD Single).
    • LOGIC RECORDS.
    • 01.
  • Taylor Swift

    Opalite

    • TS/Republic.
  • Sabrina Carpenter

    Espresso

    • Island Records.
  • ZAYN

    Die For Me

    • ZAYN.
  • Queen

    Radio Ga Ga

    • Queen: Greatest Hits 2 (Remastered 2011).
    • EMI.
    • 03.
  • Noah Kahan

    The Great Divide

    • Mercury Records/Republic Owned.
  • Alex Warren

    Carry You Home

    • Atlantic Records.
  • Maroon 5

    This Love

    • Songs About Jane.
    • BMG.
    • 01.
  • Ella Langley

    Choosin' Texas

    • SAWGOD/Columbia.
  • Terence Trent D’Arby

    If You Let Me Stay

    • Massive Hits! Eighties.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 05.
  • Danny L Harle & Dua Lipa

    Two Hearts

    • XL Recordings.
  • Ed Sheeran

    Shape Of You

    • Shape Of You.
    • Atlantic Records UK.
    • 01.
  • U2

    Song Of The Future

    • Island Records.
  • Gabrielle

    Dreams

    • Now That's What I Call 40 Years.
    • Now! Music.
    • 01.
  • Blondie

    The Tide Is High

    • Greatest Hits - Blondie.
    • Capitol Records.
    • 01.

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