We start with a moving interview on prostate cancer from Gloucestershire, top boyband JLS drop into BBC Manchester;plus items from Leicester, Derby and Mr.Gee.

A great mix of items featuring interviews with a Berkshire-based African - Caribbean World War Two veteran on Remembrance Sunday, a debate in Nottingham on whether black women feel pressured to look European, Derby ponders whether the tactics that transported Obama to the White House could work in Britain and in London, they preview the BFM film festival.

Nottingham remembers the "black Florence Nightingale" - Mary Secole. Finance guru Alvin Hall urges people to put as much money away for a rainy day as possible as he visits Reading and the singer Maxwell tells Radio Derby about his joy at returning to the music scene.

This week we hear how a couple of regions reacted to the BNP's first broadcast on Question Time. We also hear about a new exhibition on the early beginnings of British Hip Hop in Manchester and an exciting film about Dancehall in Jamaica.

There's a strong message for the church from a top conference on the state of Black Britain and we hear about the latest ethnic identity -"Bajaican". There's a new art exhibition at Manchester City celebrating black footballers. Plus the latest in the music series charting the history of Lovers Rock.

It's the second week of Black History Month and our considered contributions this week show that black history in the regions of Britain has evolved as the confidence of a community has grown. So sit back and enjoy this week's UK Black.

Black History Month has started and our programmes reflect that with their output. In Nottingham, we hear from a black female councillor of 20 years standing, in Manchester, a black library has opened in the heart of Moss Side with the aim to get young black kids reading about their history, and there are contributions about the Caribbean and Africa.

This week we have contributions from Derby where Spike Lee's main soundtrack composer is interviewed about his inspirations. Plus we hear from Alexandra Burke, winner of last year's X Factor and about the challenges black footballers face trying to become managers. All this and much more on this week's UK Black Podcast.

We hear from a cultural exchange student in Derby, Beverley Knight talks about her new album, and we hear about the Decibel Performing Arts Showcase.

Our podcast kicks off with a punchy item from Birmingham that asks if black professional women can have it all? Career, marriage and babies that is. And we hear about the uniqueness of the West Indian Front Room from the perspective of the author of a new book about it and from a first generation mother in Gloucestershire. Plus contributions from London, Leicester and Alex de Great.

This week's UKBlack goes heavy on the arts. There's a look back at the Notting Hill Carnival, the spotlight falls on the New Yorker in charge at one of the North of England's most important theatres and the great grandmother from Northampton enjoying life as a succesful authour. All that plus the people of Derby making a stand against gun crime.

On Carnival weekend we hear from a Leicester family who traced their roots back to Zanzibar as well as Levi Roots talking about his new book and TV series about Caribbean food and former Eurovision star Jade Ewen.

This week we hear about a Berkshire based project to help young black fathers, an empowering church initiative to help focus young black men, and we find out why a black theatre closed down in Gloucestershire. Plus Lovers Rock with a difference in London and Alex de Great..

There's a summer-like theme to the podcast this week. We hear about Manchester's Jamaica Society, a calypsonian determined to spread the word in Berkshir, how to handle bailiffs in Nottingham and some camping enthusiasts determined to get black folk in the countryside in Derby.

This week's edition features an interview with an expert in Carnival Arts preparing for the Birmingham Carnival procession; and a researcher who is working on a study about which companies profited from forced African enslavement talks to the London programme. Plus we hear contributions from Berkshire and Nottingham and Alex's calypso

This week the London programme brings us a debate about the current troubles of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, also we talk to former Destiny's Child singer Michelle Williams who's just started performing as Roxie in a stage production of 'Chicago' and one woman in Northamptonshire is on a mission to get people to attend an event that will support the local African and Caribbean Association...

This week music and festivals are celebrated with interviews with the Kenyan Boys Choir, the Notting Hill Carnvival Mas Band Association and the organisers of the Liberian Independence celebrations in Northampton. We also take a look at how a government sponsored initiative into helping black youngsters is coming along.. all this and much more on UK Black.

We hear a moving story from a sickle cell sufferer in Nottingham, from a Motown-loving author in Berkshire, a lonely hearts entrepeneur in Leicester and from some sparky walking enthusiasts in Yorkshire who are out on a mission to convert new black walkers to their cause..all this and much more on this week's UK Black.

In the week that the Williams sisters again dominated womens tennis at Wimbledon, we hear from the Trinidadian born poet in residence at Wimbledon and the Jamaican High Commissioner to Britain is seething about a TV programme which he feels portrayed the island in a poor light. Plus we hear about lots of community projects around the country. All this and more in this week's UK Black.

A very special edition for us this week as individual programmes re-collect their memories of Michael Jackson. The podcast kicks off with a stunning poem from Mr. Gee and sets the tone for the rest of the podcast. Not every programme concentrated on the death of Michael Jackson - so expect the usual regional gems..on this week's UK Black.