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

• How the words ‘avoid excessive cleavage’ inspired a Staffordshire/Tamworth woman to turn the menopause in to a hit stand-up routine, for comic Jules O'Brian.

• Walsall postie Ryan Kenny is on: he started writing in therapy - and has become a twice published poet!

• Top tips from Stourbridge filmmaker and master of all trades, Bob Sanderson, now mentoring aspiring writers across the West Midlands.

• Checking out the podcast from Coventry championing the sports stars of the future, made at Coventry University, The Bench-Warmers.

• Advice on how to get yourself sponsored, and other tips of the trade, from a Stourport-born, Longbridge-based beauty podcast, run by businesswoman Angie Monroe. Show less