Celebrate 2 Tone in #Birmingham with BBC Radio WM! 🖤🤍

O2 Institute in Digbeth
Thursday May 2nd
Performance from @thebeat featuring Ranking Jr

Plus conversations with Pauline Black and Horace Panter!

Tickets are free, but limited.
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#2Tone

We let the cast of This Town do the interviewing at the Birmingham red carpet premiere… safe to say we got some peculiar questions! 😳

This Town, tonight at 9pm on BBC One, or watch the whole series now on BBC iPlayer 💙

#MadeintheMidlands

📢 Pop legends Madness and Texas to present ‘Make A Difference’ award winners' shows this Easter

60-minute specials will broadcast across all 39 local BBC radio stations 🤩

Read more ➡️ bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20…

Our City. This Town. 💙

This week was the Birmingham premiere of This Town - a new drama set and filmed in Birmingham!

We caught up with the cast on the red carpet as they told us how important the Midlands is to TV and This Town.

9pm on Easter Sunday on BBC iPlayer & BBC One

Our city. This Town 💙

What a night for the Birmingham premiere of #ThisTown , the new drama from the creator of #PeakyBlinders Steven Knight 🙌

Coming to BBC iPlayer from Sunday 31 March

Our reporter Megan Jones is at THSH for the premiere of Steven Knight’s new six-part series This Town which has been described as a “love letter to Birmingham and Coventry”.

The red carpet is coming together nicely for the premiere of This Town, tonight at Birmingham Town Hall! 🤩

Lights, camera, Across the UK!

We are celebrating the third anniversary of our pledge to boost production out of London with a special report from Abbie Dewhurst 👀

Find out more 📲 bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20…

Music to your ears! 🎶 🎬

New drama This Town, from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, tells the story of an extended family fighting to choose their own paths amidst an iconic music scene in 80s Coventry and Birmingham.

Watch #ThisTown on #iPlayer from Sunday 31 March

Have you tuned into Gaby Roslin live from Birmingham on @bbcradio2? 👀

Big up Brum! 🙌

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Did you catch Jeremy Vine discussing the Birmingham City Council cuts on BBC Radio 2 today?

📲 Listen now on BBC Sounds: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Apply for your tickets for the screening of the latest drama from our good friend Steven Knight - This Town 🎶

Enter the draw before 11.55pm on Sunday 10th March: bbc.in/ThisTownBham
See you on the red carpet! 😉😉

Big Love
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#MadeInTheMidlands #UB40

6 amazing artists have recorded music to feature across This Town, the new drama from the creator of Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight 🤩

✨ Celeste
✨ Gregory Porter
✨ Olivia Dean
✨ Ray Laurél
✨ Sekou
✨ Self Esteem

Find out more ⬇️ #MadeInTheMidlands
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🎶 This Town to feature music from Celeste, Gregory Porter, Olivia Dean, Ray Laurél, Sekou and Self Esteem

Each artist has recorded a cover version to play over the end credits of an episode of the new drama from Steven Knight

More here ➡️ bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20…

The BBC has commissioned new drama We Go Again (working title) from award-winning writer Janice Okoh 🤩

Filming for the comedy drama, a portrait of black working-class teenage life, will take place in and around Birmingham and Coventry later this year 🙌

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Follow the action at the UK Athletics Indoor Championships this weekend live from Birmingham on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport 🏃

With qualification for another major championships on home soil on offer, and thoughts turning towards the Paris Olympics, this is not to be missed 🤩

The BBC Young Reporter Festival is back for 2024 🎙️

Whether you’re a school, college or home educator, you can join the virtual masterclasses from anywhere in the UK ⬇️

Welcome to Production Unlocked 🔐

BBC Academy is back in Brum on 20-22 February with an exciting programme of masterclasses, panel discussions and practical skills sessions focusing on production 📺

Check out more details below ⬇️
#MadeInTheMidlands
bbc.co.uk/academy/events…