Original comedy, podcasts, poetry, fiction and more on BBC Upload with Andrew Marston, including:

• Why the team at Nozstock, near Bromyard, have said 2024 will be their last-ever festival.

• A heart-warming story about meeting a hero, embracing the things you loved as a child and accepting that fitting in isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

• In our studio blog, hearing how a professional recording space in Hanley became a home setup in lockdown and is now specialising in electronic music.

• I met her in a supermarket - Pulp's true story involving a Shrewsbury poet in a local branch of Safeway!

• Meeting the Staffordshire woman who by day is a barrister, but by night - has just premiered a movie all about the Loch Ness Monster.

• A poem written in the Black Country dialect from a local man who's published a book called A Black Country Chap's Life of Rhyme.

• Celebrating 100 episodes of a Birmingham-made podcast which educates listeners about kidney disease.

• Our Songwriting for Songwriters podcast series takes you to Birmingham...Alabama, with the hugely talented songwriters The Pierces.

• Remembering Birmingham's Benjamin Zephaniah, who's died at the age of 65.

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