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Are you ready for Armageddon? Get prepared!

Prepper: Series 2: Fear of Going Out

Fear of Going Out

Series 2

BBC Radio 4 - Prepper, Series 2, Fear of Going Out

Two remarkable women prepare for the end of the world and make a weekly podcast about it.

Are you prepared? Two remarkable women prepare for the end of the world and make a weekly podcast about it. Award-winning comedy by Caz Moran, starring Sue Johnston and Lydia West.

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.

This week, Lydia's anxiety slightly gets the better of her as she engages with the outside world again, post-lockdown and attends a wedding. Luckily, technology means Sylvia is on hand with some stern crisis advice. We also visit the Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet for some tips on smelting pig iron in an emergency and imagine the knock-ons to modern society from the impact of an asteroid.

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.

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 (Sue Johnston - The Royle Family, Downton Abbey) continues to broadcast from her well-appointed double garage in south Manchester, Rachel (Lydia West - It's a Sin, Years and Years) is banished to a 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

A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4

Prepper: Series 2

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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