Domestic Bliss

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

This is in part tribute to her beloved late father - a larger-than-life gregarious character, who managed a sex shop. He was also a 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.

She also asks 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 world view had won the 2011 BBC New Comedy Award by a public vote.

This secured her a weekly star slot in Channel 4's Stand Up For The Week and appeared on numerous radio and TV shows including Loose Ends, The Now Show, The News Quiz (BBC Radio 4), Russell Howard's Good News (BBC 3), and Mock The Week and Live at the Apollo (BBC 2). She has been one of the hosts of BBC Radio 4 Extra's Newsjack.

An Impatient production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2019.

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