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Unveiling our Rik Mayall festival line-up

Discover the performers set to play on our stages at next week's huge event in Droitwich.

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

• Our big Rik Mayall Comedy Festival line-up! Three months ago we put the call out for you to perform on our two stages in the Worcestershire canal town. We reveal the acts performing from our area, in front of you at this incredible event - including what happened when we gave some the ultimate surprise!

• How SNL UK pulled off multiple Louis Therouxs, including the actual Louis Theroux, all in one sketch, set in Bromsgrove! Catch up with the show's Redditch writer Lorna Rose Treen, fresh from finishing series one, who's got her own show at Rik Mayall too.

• A look at the life of one of the maddest and funniest men to come out of the West Midlands, if not the whole country! Hear from Rik Mayall's biographers, plus extracts from the tapes used to write his memoirs, that have developed in to a BBC Sounds podcast.

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Sat 23 May 2026 18:00
BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC CWR, BBC Radio WM, BBC Radio Stoke & BBC Radio Shropshire

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Music Played

  • Tears for Fears

    Everybody Wants To Rule The World

    • Songs From The Big Chair.
    • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).
    • 02.

  • Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter

    Bring Your Love

    • Warner Records.

  • EMF

    Unbelievable

    • Awesome 2 - Various Artists.
    • CHRYSALIS.
    • 01.

  • Olivia Rodrigo

    Drop Dead

    • Interscope.

  • Ricky Martin

    Livin' La Vida Loca

    • Ricky Martin - Ricky Martin.
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 01.

  • Westlife

    Your Love Amazes Me

    • Sony Music.

  • Mark Ronson

    Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse)

    • Mark Ronson/Amy Winehouse - Valerie.
    • Columbia.
    • 01.

  • Cher

    The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)

    • Cher: Forever Fan.
    • Warner Records.
    • 18.

  • Republica

    Ready To Go

    • The Best Anthems....Ever.
    • SONY.
    • 01.

  • Blue

    Flowers

    • Cooking Vinyl.

  • Blondie

    Atomic

    • Atomic - The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • Parlophone Catalogue.
    • 01.

  • sombr

    Potential

    • Warners.

  • Nickelback

    How You Remind Me

    • Now 51.
    • EMI/VIRGIN/POLYGRAM.
    • 01.

  • Alanis Morissette

    Ironic

    • Jagged Little Pill.
    • MAVERICK.
    • 01.

  • Alex Warren

    FEVER DREAM

    • ATLANTIC RECORDS.

  • Myles Smith

    Nice To Meet You

    • RCA.

Broadcasts

  • Thu 21 May 2026 18:00
    BBC Hereford & Worcester & BBC Radio Shropshire
  • Thu 21 May 2026 19:00
    BBC Radio WM, BBC CWR & BBC Radio Stoke
  • Sat 23 May 2026 18:00
    BBC Hereford & Worcester, BBC CWR, BBC Radio WM, BBC Radio Stoke & BBC Radio Shropshire