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  • Published: 5 April 2018
  • ISBN: 9781787530669
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 1 hr 50 min
  • Narrator: Bridget Christie
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Bridget Christie's Utopia: Series 1

A BBC Radio 4 comedy




Disillusioned with what the UK is becoming, Bridget Christie seeks out people who believe they have found the secret to a happier life.

A brand new comedy series from award-winning stand-up comedian Bridget Christie.

As Bridget Christie struggles to come to terms with current world events - Kim Jong-un, the melting polar ice caps, the Brexit negotiations and Nick Knowles singing a cover of The Beatles "Here Comes The Sun" - she embarks on a comic quest for her Utopia: a way of living that will make her less anxious and enable her to have her first happy wee since the Brexit vote in 2016.

Bridget explores politically disengaging, spirituality, moving to the country and being super rich, to see if any of that will make her happier. Will not reading the papers, abstaining from all social media and not watching rolling news reports bring a smile to Bridget's face? Could yoga, Hinduism or becoming a nun be the answer to all her problems? What about living on a rural commune? Or auditioning for a lucrative TK Maxx commercial?

Or will life still be completely rubbish?


Recorded in front of a live studio audience at the BBC Radio Theatre.

Written by and starring: Bridget Christie
With special guests Mike Christie, Leyla Hussein, Sister Agatha & Fran Blockley
Producers: Simon Nicholls and Alison Vernon-Smith
Image credit: Idil Sukan
A BBC Studios Production

  • Published: 5 April 2018
  • ISBN: 9781787530669
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 1 hr 50 min
  • Narrator: Bridget Christie
Categories:

About the author

Bridget Christie

Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, writer and actor. She is the winner of the Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Award (2013), South Bank Sky Arts Award for Comedy (2014), Rose D’Or International Broadcasting Award (2014) and four Chortle comedy industry awards, voted for by comedy fans, from 2014 and 2015. She was also nominated for a Radio Academy Award (2014) and a British Comedy Award for Best Female Television Comic (2014). Her 2013 show A Bic for Her became the top-selling comedy show at the Soho Theatre ever.

Bridget can also load and fire a 17th century musket (though not while under pressure or any time constraints), scuba dive and drive a tractor. She lives in north London with her family and cat.

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