Radio Stoke Features

The Friday Club on BBC Radio Stoke's Breakfast show is a club you'll definitely want to be a member of if you enjoy going to the cinema, watching soaps or curling up with a good book.

Every week at 9am, Pete Morgan and his selected panel of listeners will review the soaps, brand new film releases, and a selection of this summer's best sellers:

Our soap queens: Jackie and Steph

• Soaps - meet Jackie and Steph, local hairdressers with their fingers on the pulse of all the latest gossip from soap-land including Corrie, 'Enders, and Emmerdale!
• Films - Gaz and the Flick Chicks, Alana and Hannah, give you their honest opinions on the latest releases at the cinema, popcorn not included!
• Books - the Belles are back for another Summer! Amy, Judy and Steph will give you the lowdown on this Summer's best-sellers, looking at everything from beach-read romances to spine chilling thrillers!

This weeks show

Movie reviewers Jon and Alana were in to talk to Stuart George about what they'd seen at the cinema this week, and the best horror films for Halloween.

Movie reviewers Alana and Jon

Jon saw 'Zombieland' and said although it's form the same Zom-Rom-Com genre it's not in the same league as Shaun of the Dead. He said it's just a splatter comedy, and doesn't have the same emotional resonance as 'Shaun'. Although, there is a wonderful cameo by a Hollywood star playing himself (but you'll have to see the movie to find out who.

Alana saw romantic comedy 'A Couples Retreat', which she said surprised her. It's based on the same idea as Sex and the City...four different couples and four different relationships. She said she expected it to be predictable but it was very watchable and laugh a minute.

Shortlist/ Schedule:

Each time the Book Club Belles come in, they review a book they've read, and a new book is introduced, if you want to read along, the books are listed below:

The Bookclub Belles. Steph, Amy and Judy

• The Virginia Monologues by Virginia Ironside
  ISBN: 1905490526
  

• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
  ISBN 10: 0751536822
  

• Frozen Assets by PG Woodhouse
  ISBN: 1-59020-306-2
  

• The Anniversary Man by RJ Ellory
  ISBN-10: 0752898744
  

• Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett
  ISBN-10: 0385609345
  

• Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
  ISBN-10: 0340979011
  

How can I join in?

If you love the soaps, you're a film fanatic, or you fancy reading along with the book club, why not join our facebook page. Click here, add yourself and have your say on our messageboards about what you've read or watched recently.

You can also be in the guest seat!

Just fill in the form below, and you might be chosen to take part in the live on-air review with Pete Morgan and the panel.

If selected, you will be contacted and given a date to come into the BBC Stoke studios on Cheapside in Hanley. It's always a Friday, it's always 9am, and it's always LIVE!