A Stevenage-born comedian is recording her new BBC radio show to represent her "home town".

Sarah Mills is taping her series Bad Bod Squad, a BBC Radio 4 comedy series, on Sunday, September 29 and Tuesday, October 1 at The Lytton Theatre.

The show discusses the taboos surrounding disabilities, with special guests Eshann Akbar, Ola Labib and Felicity Ward having conversations with audience members.

Sarah chose the Stevenage venue as she wished to "represent her hometown".

Sarah Mills will have a new comedy series on BBC Radio 4.Sarah Mills will have a new comedy series on BBC Radio 4. (Image: The Lytton Theatre) "From the outset important to me that I wanted to record in Stevenage as its where we grew up.

"Stevenage is a great place and it's underrepresented, people forget about towns around London like ours."

Sarah, who lived in Letchmore Road and attended Barclay School, was diagnosed with Stage 3 bowel cancer in 2018. She remembers feeling terrified and overwhelmed as she grappled with mortality.

She told the Comet in 2020: "It was a massive surprise to get bowel cancer at 34, you think that only old people get it.

"Mine was caught literally just in time, it was stage 3C. It hadn’t yet spread to other organs but if it had been left much longer it could have been a different story."

Since her cancer treatment, she has worn a stomach bag and dabbled in a comedy career kick started by Youtube series the Chemo Chat Show in 2022.

The comedian has gone from strength to strength since her cancer treatment.The comedian has gone from strength to strength since her cancer treatment. (Image: Sarah Mills)

Sarah also debuted a one woman show at Edinburgh Festival 2022, about life in Stevenage and her illness.

Currently, tickets are sold out on both nights and proceeds from drinks sales and hiring rights will help to build a new disabled toilet at the Lytton Theatre.

She added: "I really appreciate the support from the local community.

"Lytton does not have disabled facilities as it was built in the 1980s so we're hiring one for the night.

"Disability has no clear register anymore, it's all different systems and there is consensus around it, that's what I want to change."

The four-part show will air on BBC Radio 4 in November.