Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change?. Micky Flanagan. Copyright: BBC
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.

Press clippings

If you can find a gap between football games this week, the last of Micky Flanagan's series What Chance Change is well worth a listen. Partly recorded at his standup gigs, partly in conversation with his family and friends, Flanagan has charted his life from Billingsgate fish market to middle-class delis. This week, he chatted to Sean Lock and considered middle age - thankfully managing to swerve Grumpy Old Men territory.

Camilla Redmond and Celine Bijleveld, The Guardian, 18th June 2010

Just time for a mention of Micky Flanagan's Radio 4 comedy series, What Chance Change? I saw Flanagan's stand-up recently and his riffs on life in the yummy mummy enclave of East Dulwich, south London, had the audience roaring. What Chance Change? takes that routine's premise - how strange it is for a boy from the markets in the East End to move up a social class - and expands on it.

It's excellent, funny and poignant, though you can't help feeling that Radio 4's traditional audience is not quite who Micky is aiming to inspire.

Miranda Sawyer, The Observer, 6th June 2010

Radio Review: Micky Flanagan - What Chance Change?

A look back at his schooldays was homely and likeable, writes Elisabeth Mahoney.

Elisabeth Mahoney, The Guardian, 26th May 2010

You might not have heard of Micky Flanagan before but this new comedy series should ensure he becomes a regular - on TV as well as radio. His astute take on social mores and the class system are spot on.

Jane Anderson, Radio Times, 25th May 2010

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