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Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change?

Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change?

  • Radio stand-up
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2009 - 2010
  • 5 episodes (1 series)

Stand-up show in which Micky Flanagan examines how his life has changed decade by decade. Stars Micky Flanagan.

Key details

Genre
Stand-Up
Broadcast
2009 - 2010
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
5 (1 pilot + 1 series)
Star
Micky Flanagan
Writer
Micky Flanagan
Producer
Tilusha Ghelani
Company

Radio series in which 'cockney geezer' Micky Flanagan regales listeners with the story of how he went from being a working-class boy to middle-class gent - and being caught awkwardly between the two.

His personal story tells how he went from tabloids to broadsheets; from white bread to paninis; from street parties to dinner parties; and from apples and pears to stocks and shares.

Micky charts his journey through stand-up comedy and documentary features which go "behind the scenes" to look at the way in which the people in his life helped him make these transitions and explore the way class shapes peoples' experiences.

Each week's episode focuses on a different decade of Micky's life. Just like Forrest Gump he always seems to have been well placed to observe social changes in British society. In the Seventies - a working class youth in the East End of London - he left school and worked in the fish market, as the East End began to be gentrified. In the wealthier Eighties, when travel abroad was becoming an option for those other than the very rich, Micky moved to New York.

At the dawn of Thatcherism, Micky was an entrepreneur, until Open University broadened his horizons.

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Tuesday 6th January 2009 at 11pm on BBC Radio 4
Most recent repeats
  • Thursday 5th October 2023 at 10:30pm on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 4
  • Thursday 28th September 2023 at 10:30pm on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 3
  • Thursday 21st September 2023 at 10:30pm on Radio 4 Extra - Episode 2

Recording details

  • Up The Creek

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