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Comedy from Asif Afzal

The Handsworth act began comedy to prove his sister wrong, now he's supporting Tez Illyas. Plus the art of storytelling from Festival At The Edge. With Nina Das Gupta.

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

• Nine venues, eighty performers and a whole load of laughs: Get the low-down on this weekend's King's Heath Comedy Festival, featuring some of the biggest names in stand-up with their final shows before the Edinburgh Festival.

• She's Brummie turned Black Country barrell-of-laughs, channelling the late great Rik Mayall in absurdist delights! Get to know Hodge Hill and Halesowen act Hannah Weetman, heading back out on the circuit after picking up a huge award for her screen-writing!

• It's the country's biggest story-telling festival that's made its way across Shropshire and last weekend landed in Herefordshire. We're at Festival At The Edge - getting an insight into life putting the rhythm and the flow of the voice centre stage as your instrument of choice, with top tips for anyone heading to a stage any time soon.

• Evesham-born, now resident Ludlow funnyman, impressionist, poet and pianist Alistair McGowan is on, performing this weekend in Much Wenlock and bringing along his mates Gary Lineker, Wayne Rooney and Harry Kane!

• Plus more live comedy from our stage at the Rik Mayall Comedy Festival. He took up stand-up as a way to prove his sister wrong - he now sells out shows all over the country and has just supported TV's Tez Illyas. Discover the very funny Asif Afzal!

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Music Played

  • David Guetta

    Titanium (feat. Sia)

    • (CD Single).
    • POSITIVA.
    • 01.

  • Taylor Swift

    I Knew It I Knew You

    • Walt Disney Records.

  • Shaggy

    It Wasn't Me

    • NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 48.
    • EMI VIRGIN UNIVERSAL.
    • 05.

  • Johnny Marr

    Spin

    • BMG.

  • Texas

    Summer Son

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 44.
    • EMI/VIRGIN/POLYGRAM.
    • 11.

  • Take That

    Sweet July

    • EMI.

  • One Direction

    What Makes You Beautiful

    • Now 80.
    • EMI.
    • 01.

  • Jack Savoretti & KT Tunstall

    Tempting Fate

    • Lanza Music.

  • Sophie Ellis‐Bextor

    Murder On The Dancefloor

    • Murder On The Dancefloor (cd Single).
    • POLYDOR.
    • 01.

  • Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson

    The Best Things In Life Are Free

    • Janet Jackson Design Of A Decade 86-96.
    • A&M.
    • 01.

  • Holly Humberstone

    White Noise

    • Polydor.

  • Aztec Camera

    Somewhere in My Heart

    • Now Yearbook 1988.
    • Now! Music.
    • 01.

  • STELLA LEFTY

    Boston

    • Atlantic Records.

  • Teddy Swims

    Bad Dreams

    • Atlantic Records.

  • Jalen Ngonda

    Burning Temptation

    • Daptone.

  • Bryan Adams

    When You're Gone (feat. Melanie C)

    • Bryan Adams: Anthology.
    • A&M.
    • 11.

  • Bruno Mars

    I Just Might

    • Atlantic.

Broadcasts

  • Thursday 18:00
    BBC Hereford & Worcester
  • Thursday 19:00
    BBC Radio Stoke, BBC Radio WM, BBC CWR & BBC Radio Shropshire
  • Yesterday 18:00
    BBC CWR, BBC Radio Shropshire, BBC Radio WM, BBC Hereford & Worcester & BBC Radio Stoke