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

Fran Blockley

Simon Nicholls

Alison Vernon-Smith

Bridget Christie's Utopia: Series 1: The Countryside

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Bridget explores the countryside - to see if that will make her happier.

Bridget explores the countryside - could commune living or moving her family to the country make her happier? 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's embarked 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 episode, Bridget explores the countryside - to see if that will make her happier. 

Could living on a rural commune or moving her family to the country be the answer to all her problems? Or will life still be completely rubbish? In her tour of the countryside, Bridget meets a woman who runs her own commune - Fran Blockley - in rural Wales. Could a new life in the countryside help this town mouse switch off?

Stand-up show recorded in front of a studio audience at the BBC Radio Theatre. With special guest Fran Blockley.

Producers: Simon Nicholls and Alison Vernon-Smith.

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

Bridget Christie's Utopia: Series 1

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

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

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