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Celebrating the best comedy, podcasts, poetry and spoken word, made in 2024 across our area, with Nina Das Gupta.

Nina unveils our Class of 2024, with some of the most inspiring and successful creatives where we live, and the stories of how they do what they do, including:

• The Worcestershire food blogger who released her first book, alongside clocking over 20,000 Instagram followers. Get to know Suki Pantal.

• The podcast made in Redditch, Erdington, Rowley Regis and Stoke bringing hundreds of thousands of ghostbusters fans all in one listen!

• The comedian from Shropshire breaking boundaries - despite hardly saying a word, in his sell-out stage show. Discover an incredible comedy performance from Dru Cripps.

• Meet Ryan Kenny, the Walsall postie turned poet, who's found writing a way to change his life for the better.

• The Kenilworth writer who became an Amazon bestseller with her book selling on every single continent. Get to know Charlotte Faulconbridge.

• Droitwich filmmaker Tom Paul Martin, who's won award after award for his short film Where Are All The Gay Superheroes, that's been screened all over the world.

• And highlights from when the ´óÏó´«Ã½ New Comedy Awards came to Birmingham - and the six finalists' top tips for starting out in comedy.

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