Angela Barnes: You Can't Take It With You 

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Angela Barnes: You Can't Take It With You

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Stand-up series from Angela Barnes in which she shares the big stuff she's thinking about: life, love, family, work and death.

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Super-sharp everywoman Angela Barnes muses on love, life, and what might come afterwards.

Angela Barnes recalls her larger-than-life father, tackles life and love and ponders the afterlife. From 2016.

Super-sharp everywoman Angela Barnes tackles life and love and, with the help of an audience, packs herself a fantasy coffin. 

Remembering her larger-than-life father - a gregarious character, sex shop manager, naturist, and a big fan of caravans and pranks - Angela celebrates his 'carpe diem' approach to life, and his motto "You Can't Take It With You".

When her father died very suddenly in 2008, Angela and her family proved him wrong and stuffed his coffin with sentimental keepsakes for his final journey.

In this series, Angela does the very same thing and asks her loved ones to nominate objects that they would choose to send on with her as mementoes of their time together, which she keeps in a suitcase full of memories, acting as prompts for contemplative, heart-warming and captivating comedy. 

Angela Barnes is a vivacious, critically acclaimed stand-up comic from Maidstone, Kent. She won the 2011 BBC New Comedy Award by a public vote.  

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

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Stand-up comedy in which Angela Barnes, remembering her larger-than-life father, tackles life and love and, with the help of the audience, packs herself a fantasy coffin.

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