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 laughs at life and packs herself a fantasy coffin.

Super-sharp everywoman Angela Barnes tackles life and love. In part tribute to her larger-than-life father, and with the help of the audience, she packs herself a fantasy coffin.

Award winning comedian and super-sharp everywoman Angela Barnes tackles life and love and, with the help of the audience, packs herself a fantasy coffin. 

In part tribute to Angela's beloved late father - a larger than life gregarious character, he was a 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. Angela now does the very same thing, nominating objects that she would choose to send on with her as mementoes of her life, and asking the audience to share items they would take with them, all acting as prompts for contemplative, heart-warming and captivating comedy. 

Angela Barnes is a vivacious, critically acclaimed stand-up comic from Maidstone, Kent. After a career in health and social care, at the age of 33, she decided to pursue a long-held ambition and give comedy a go. Within a couple of years, Angela and her witty worldview had won the 2011 BBC New Comedy Award by a public vote, secured a weekly star slot in Channel 4's Stand Up For The Week and appeared on numerous radio and television shows including Loose Ends, The Now Show, The News Quiz (BBC Radio 4), Russell Howard's Good News (BBC 3), and Mock The Week and Live at the Apollo (BBC 2). She has been the host of BBC Radio 4 Extra's Newsjack for the last two series.

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Angela Barnes: You Can't Take It With You: 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.

A second contemplative, heart-warming and poignant series from Angela Barnes.

A second contemplative, heart-warming, poignant and very funny series from gloriously gifted Angela Barnes in tribute to her late father Derek.

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