Poppy Cooks: The potato queen

Available for 16 days

We're celebrating the best creatives where we live with Nina Das Gupta, including: • 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. • 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. • 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. • 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. • 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. • 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. • 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. Upload your work for a chance to get on the BBC.