Original comedy, podcasts, poetry, fiction and more on BBC Upload with Nina Das Gupta, including:

• They take martial arts out of the dojo and into the ears of the masses - in the next ten minutes we're meeting the brains behind the kickboxing podcast made in Telford and going global!

• One-liner king comedian Milton Jones is on with tips on crafting that routine, and making joke after joke.

• Finding out why the West Midlands - and in particular Stourbridge - is the epicentre of the world's horror films, with the Black Country Horror Film Festival open again for submissions.

• Picking the brains of a giant of the world of poetry, John Cooper-Clarke.

• We meet the Redditch woman taking the world by storm through her incredible, inflatable artistry.

• And hearing from the stars of the brand new BBC podcast, fronted by music legend Pete Waterman, looking at the impact of 2Tone on Coventry, Birmingham, and the West Midlands. Show less