Bridget Christie: Mortal

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Comedian Bridget Christie contemplates mortality: birth, life, death and the afterlife.

Collection of lockdown recordings pondering questions around birth, death and the afterlife – with interruptions. From 2021.

Following on from her hugely successful, award-winning series – ‘Minds The Gap’ and ‘Utopia’, Bridget Christie turns her attention to Mortality

Like many of us forced to work from home during Covid lockdown, Bridget recorded this series herself in her house, and in her local park, on a pre-sanitised recording device sent to her in the post. Batteries weren’t included. She had to buy them all herself.

In a collection of informative, personal and absurd recordings, she confronts the difficult questions most of us spend our lives avoiding - all whilst being interrupted by cats, bad WiFi, life admin and her own dead self from beyond the grave.

"Does life have meaning?", "How do you live in the moment?", "Why is life like a washing machine cycle?" and "What's that dog barking at?"

If you are mortal, then this is the show for you.

Written and performed by Bridget Christie

With guest appearances from her dad, sister Eileen and friend Ash

Producer: Carl Cooper

A BBC Studios Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2021.

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In a collection of informative, personal and absurd recordings, comedian Bridget Christie confronts the difficult questions most of us spend our lives avoiding.

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