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Queen of the North

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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.

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.

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 on Prepper, the only podcast that Bear Grylls listens to in the bath, an in-depth examination of the dating scene post-apocalypse, the ups and downs of Faraday Cages - will a tin foil hat suffice? - and a peep inside Sylvia's "bag of pain". All this and Rachel's report into the menace of fly-tipping and its impact on the South Manchester lapwing community.

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 continues to broadcast from her well-appointed double garage in south Manchester, Rachel is banished to a duvet-lined gazebo in the garden. It's secure against COVID but, sadly, not against the rain.

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 Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio 4

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Fri 2 Jul 2021 11:30

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