Ageing

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.

Producer Lianne Coop

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