Angela Barnes: You Can't Take It With You. Angela Barnes
Angela Barnes: You Can't Take It With You

Angela Barnes: You Can't Take It With You

  • Radio stand-up
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2016 - 2019
  • 8 episodes (2 series)

Radio 4 stand-up series based on the hit 2014 Edinburgh Fringe show by Angela Barnes. Stars Angela Barnes.

Angela Barnes: You Can't Take It With You. Angela Barnes

Key details

Genre
Stand-Up
Broadcast
2016 - 2019
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
8 (2 series)
Star
Angela Barnes
Writer
Angela Barnes
Producer
Lianne Coop
Company

Stand-up series from Angela Barnes. Based on her critically acclaimed debut show at the Edinburgh Fringe 2014, You Can't Take It With You, Angela shares the big stuff she's thinking about: life, love, family, work and death.

The 4 episode series is in part tribute to her late father, an enormous character - (he was a sex shop manager, naturist, and a big fan of caravans and pranks), and a heavy influence on Angela who taught her a 'carpe diem' approach to life. His motto: "You Can't Take It With You".

When her father died, (very suddenly in 2008, and the reaction to which was the catalyst that drove Angela to pursue her career in comedy), Angela and her family proved him wrong and stuffed his coffin with sentimental keepsakes for his final journey.

In this series, Angela does the very same thing and asks her loved ones to nominate objects that they would choose to send on with her as mementoes of their time together, which she keeps in a "suitcase full of memories" and will act as prompts for episodes of warm and captivating stand-up.

Additional details

Production
Studio

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Wednesday 10th August 2016 at 11pm on BBC Radio 4
Most recent repeats

Recording details

  • Up The Creek

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