Preppers are a large and rapidly growing global community who have taken Armageddon readiness one step further than most. They’re actively skilling up, laying down supplies and readying themselves for ‘the end of the world’, in whatever form it comes. If people in south Manchester are prepping, it’s probably time to worry.

Sylvia Garrett, a cut-throat shop-managing baby boomer, and 27 year old Rachel Olende, self-obsessed and having a quarter-life crisis, continue their podcast for anyone interested in surviving the coming breakdown of society - Prepper.

In this week's episode, we find out exactly what happened to turn Sylvia from a mild-mannered shop assistant into the prepping demon that we know and love, today. On reflection - we're not sure she was ever mild-mannered, but she has a story about a trip across the Pennines that she will never forget. And neither will you. There's also news of the passing of Beryl Arbuthnot, another heroine of the north-western prepper community. The Vikings have nothing on prepper funerals. All this and a super-volcano, too.

The first series of Prepper won the Writers Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Comedy 2020.

On this new series: "A comic book and kitchen sink drama" - The Radio Times; "A timely return for the sharply written comedy" - The Guardian; "As enjoyably unhinged as the first series" - Daily Mail.

In this series, while Sylvia continues to broadcast from her well-appointed double garage in south Manchester, Rachel is banished to a duvet-lined gazebo in the garden.

Cast:
Sylvia is played by Sue Johnston OBE
Rachel is played by Lydia West

Written by Caroline Moran
Technical Presentation: Jerry Peal
Producer: Steve Doherty

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