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Mark Watson Talks a Bit About Life

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Mark Watson attempts to answer the big questions and make sense of life.

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Mark Watson Talks a Bit About Life: Series 2: Work and Play

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Mark Watson attempts to make sense of life, assisted by Sam Simmons and Will Adamsdale.

Mark discusses balancing work and play. Do we get more from working ourselves to the bone or messing about? From August 2016.

Mark Watson considers work and play. 

How can we find the right balance between them? Do we get more out of life from flogging ourselves at the coalface, or messing about at the coalface, or do we not even have to go to the coalface at all?

Multi-award winning Mark Watson is assisted and impeded in equal measure by henchmen Sam Simmons and Will Adamsdale, as he revives his quest to make some sort of sense of life against the backdrop of a world that, in recent times, has come to seem even more peculiar than usual. 

The tenacious trio take on some of human life's central topics - family, spirituality, Scandinavia. Watson peddles his unique, high-octane stand-up while Simmons and Adamsdale chip in with interjections which include (but are not limited to) music, shopping lists, life advice, stunts, avant-garde offerings and divvy interactions.

Expect big laughs, controlled chaos and an attempt to answer the one question none of us can quite escape from - what exactly is going on?

Producer: Lianne Coop

An Impatient production for Radio 4 first broadcast in August 2016.

Mark Watson Talks a Bit About Life: Series 2

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Mark attempts to answer the big questions, assisted by Sam Simmons and Will Adamsdale.

Comedian Mark Watson attempts to answer the big questions and make sense of life, assisted and impeded in equal measure by henchmen Sam Simmons and Will Adamsdale.

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