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Domestic Bliss

Super-sharp everywoman Angela Barnes tackles life and love. In part tribute to her larger-than-life father, and with the help of the audience, she packs herself a fantasy coffin.

Award winning comedian and super-sharp everywoman Angela Barnes tackles life and love and, with the help of the audience, packs herself a fantasy coffin.

In part tribute to Angela's beloved late father - a larger than life gregarious character, he was a sex shop manager, naturist, and a big fan of caravans and pranks - Angela celebrates his carpe diem approach to life, and his motto "You Can't Take It With You".

When her father died very suddenly in 2008, Angela and her family proved him wrong and stuffed his coffin with sentimental keepsakes for his final journey. Angela now does the very same thing, nominating objects that she would choose to send on with her as mementoes of her life, and asking the audience to share items they would take with them, all acting as prompts for contemplative, heart-warming and captivating comedy.

Angela Barnes is a vivacious, critically acclaimed stand-up comic from Maidstone, Kent. After a career in health and social care, at the age of 33, she decided to pursue a long-held ambition and give comedy a go. Within a couple of years, Angela and her witty worldview had won the 2011 ±«Óãtv New Comedy Award by a public vote, secured a weekly star slot in Channel 4's Stand Up For The Week and appeared on numerous radio and television shows including Loose Ends, The Now Show, The News Quiz (±«Óãtv Radio 4), Russell Howard's Good News (±«Óãtv 3), and Mock The Week and Live at the Apollo (±«Óãtv 2). She has been the host of ±«Óãtv Radio 4 Extra's Newsjack for the last two series.

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First broadcast in 2019.

5 months left to listen

28 minutes

Last on

Fri 7 Apr 2023 22:00

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  • Wed 2 Jan 2019 18:30
  • Wed 9 Jan 2019 07:30
  • Wed 9 Jan 2019 17:30
  • Wed 9 Jan 2019 22:00
  • Thu 10 Jan 2019 05:30
  • Sun 2 Apr 2023 19:15
  • Fri 7 Apr 2023 22:00