The latest news, updates and events in Birmingham
The BBC has unveiled plans to move its main Birmingham base to the new creative quarter in Digbeth from 2026. Currently based at The Mailbox, BBC Midlands will relocate to a new purpose-built broadcast centre at the former Typhoo Factory site in the city.
A local BBC Radio show made for football fans by football fans is returning to airwaves and has been billed as “bigger and better than before”. Squad Goals is back and this season it’s bigger and better than before, with two live Football League shows across the BBC’s local radio services – made by the fans for the…
An all-new Breakfast Show is to be hosted by Elise Evans and is set to launch on BBC Radio WM across the West Midlands later this month. Wolverhampton based Elise, who will replace current presenter Daz Hale, has been presenting for 10 years and joined BBC Radio WM two years ago.
BBC Radio 5 Live’s overnight phone-in show is being relaunched for life beyond lockdown with Dotun Adebayo. The official voice of night owls everywhere, Dotun has been the host of the 1am-5am show each weekend for nine years on 5 Live.
Firebrand former Labour MP George Galloway and Perry Barr’s Khalid Mahmood are taking part in a hustings in Birmingham ahead of this month’s General Election. The political heavyweights are taking part in a Q&A panel arranged by popular city broadcaster New Style Radio which will be chaired by Charmaine Burton, presenter of the ‘Different Anglez’ current affairs…
A daring new ghost story hit this year’s Christmas Eve television schedule with a tale about ‘the love that dare not speak its name’. Simon Callow delivers a beautifully nuanced performance under the direction of writer Mark Gatiss. After an absence of several years ‘A Ghost Story for Christmas’ returns to television during the festive…