Life
Collection of lockdown recordings pondering questions around birth, death and the afterlife – with interruptions. From 2021.
Following on from her hugely successful, award-winning series – ‘Minds The Gap’ and ‘Utopia’, Bridget Christie turns her attention to Mortality.
Like many of us forced to work from home during Covid lockdown, Bridget recorded this series herself in her house, and in her local park, on a pre-sanitised recording device sent to her in the post. Batteries weren’t included. She had to buy them all herself.
In a collection of informative, personal and absurd recordings, she confronts the difficult questions most of us spend our lives avoiding - all whilst being interrupted by cats, bad WiFi, life admin and her own dead self from beyond the grave.
"Does life have meaning?", "How do you live in the moment?", "Why is life like a washing machine cycle?" and "What's that dog barking at?"
If you are mortal, then this is the show for you.
Written and performed by Bridget Christie.
With guest appearances from her dad, sister Eileen and friend Ash.
Producer: Carl Cooper
A ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Studios Production for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2021.
On radio
Broadcasts
- Tue 20 Apr 2021 18:30³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
- Tue 27 Apr 2021 07:30³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 27 Apr 2021 17:30³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 27 Apr 2021 22:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
- Wed 28 Apr 2021 05:30³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 2 Aug 2022 23:30³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4
- Mon 20 Feb 2023 07:30³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
- Mon 20 Feb 2023 12:30³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
- Mon 20 Feb 2023 17:30³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 21 Feb 2023 02:30³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
- Next Thursday 08:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
- Next Thursday 13:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
- Next Thursday 19:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra
- Next Friday 03:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 Extra