Bridget Christie’s Utopia

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Bridget Christie's Utopia

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Bridget Christie embarks on a comic quest for her Shangri-La.

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Bridget Christie

Mike Christie

Leyla Hussein

Simon Nicholls

Alison Vernon-Smith

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As civilisation collapses, Bridget Christie embarks on a comic quest for her Shangri-La.

Bridget explores politically disengaging for a week, but does that make her happier or will life still be rubbish? From 2018.

As Bridget Christie struggles to come to terms with current world events - Kim Jong-un, the melting polar ice caps, the Brexit negotiations and Nick Knowles singing a cover of The Beatles "Here Comes The Sun", she embarks on a comic quest for her Utopia.

She's seeking a way of living that will make her less anxious and enable her to have her first happy week since the Brexit vote in 2016. 

In this opening episode, Bridget explores politically disengaging for a week - to see if that will make her happier. 

Will not reading the papers, abstaining from all social media and not watching rolling news reports bring a smile to Bridget's face and be the answer to all her problems?

Or will life still be completely rubbish? In her quest to disengage from the turmoil that is world news, Bridget goes to see Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats, has an aqua massage and stands in her garden. 

Will she switch off? 

Stand-up show recorded in front of a studio audience at the BBC Radio Theatre. 

With special guests 

Mike Christie
Leyla Hussein 

Producers:  Simon Nicholls & Alison Vernon-Smith 

A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in February 2018.

Bridget Christie's Utopia: Series 1

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As civilization collapses, Bridget Christie embarks on a comic quest for her Shangri-La.

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