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Kit de Waal in conversation

The internationally best-selling Brummie novelist shares secrets of honing the craft. Plus tales from top TV sets courtesy of Stokie director Ruth Carney. With Nina Das Gupta.

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

• Internationally best-selling and multi-award winning novelist Kit de Waal is in conversation. From growing up battling racism and finding the kindness in her Moseley neighbours, discover how she cracked the code after a decade of honing the craft.

• Tales from the director's chair from Emmerdale, Death In Paraidse, Shetland and beyond, courtesy of Staffordshire's clapperboarder-in-chief, Ruth Carney.

• Meet the Great Barr content creating couple who have followers in the hundreds of thousands - and they're only seven months in!

• 'As much drama as you could fit in to Tyson Fury's boxing shorts': Discover the Kingswinford writer who's placed the boxing ring as the inspiration for a compelling new screenplay.

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Music Played

  • Nik Kershaw

    Wouldn't It Be Good

    • Top Of The Pops 1984.
    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).
    • 01.

  • STELLA LEFTY

    Boston

    • Atlantic Records.

  • Fred again.. & Obongjayar

    adore u

    • Atlantic.

  • Florrie

    Warrior

    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited.

  • Modjo

    Lady (Hear Me Tonight)

    • Now That's What I Call Music 47.
    • Now! Music.
    • 01.

  • The Verve

    Bitter Sweet Symphony

    • NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 37.
    • EMI/VIRGIN/POLYGRAM.
    • 03.

  • Ashe

    Stop the Wedding

    • Atlantic.

  • INXS

    Need You Tonight

    • The Very Best Of INXS.
    • Rhino Atlantic.
    • 13.

  • Olivia Dean

    Man I Need

    • Capitol.

  • Madison Avenue

    Don't Call Me Baby (Motez Vicious21 Remix)

    Remix Artist: Motez.
    • Now 45.
    • VC RECORDINGS.
    • 01.

  • P!nk

    Just Like A Pill

    • Just Like A Pill (Clean).
    • SONY.
    • 01.

  • Skerryvore

    Singing Up In Heaven

    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Avril Lavigne

    Complicated

    • Now Millennium 2002-2003.
    • Now! Music.
    • 01.

  • Kodaline

    Vultures

    • Concord Records.

  • Sophie Ellis‐Bextor

    Murder On The Dancefloor

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

  • Sienna Spiro

    Great Expectation

    • Capitol Records.

  • Teddy Swims

    Perfect Man

    • Warner Records.

  • Happy Mondays

    Step On

    • Now That's What I Call An Era.
    • Now! Music.
    • 05.

  • Bruce Hornsby & the Range

    The Way It Is

    • The Essential Bruce Hornsby.
    • RCA/Legacy.
    • 13.

  • Livin’ Joy

    Dreamer

    • Now That's What I Call An Era - Such A Good Feeling.
    • Now! Music.
    • 01.

Broadcasts

  • Thu 15 Oct 2026 18:00
    BBC Hereford & Worcester & BBC Radio Shropshire
  • Thu 15 Oct 2026 19:00
    BBC Radio Stoke, BBC CWR & BBC Radio WM
  • Last Saturday 18:00
    BBC Radio Shropshire, BBC CWR & BBC Radio Stoke
  • Last Saturday 19:00
    BBC Hereford & Worcester