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Hell Is Other People

Episode 2 of 4

Are you Armageddon-ready? Sylvia and Rachel road test survival courses. Stars Sue Johnston and Pearl Mackie. From 2019.

Trump. ISIS. The Courgette Crisis. Signs of civilisation’s fragility are all around. No wonder the Doomsday Clock just nudged closer to midnight. In this fearscape, more and more ordinary people are wondering how they’d cope if everything we take for granted (law and order, access to healthcare, iceberg lettuces in Sainsburys) was taken away.

Preppers - a large and rapidly growing global community - have taken this thought one step further. They’re actively skilling-up, laying down supplies and readying themselves for the end of the world, in whatever form it comes. Indeed, a prepping shop just opened in Newquay. And if people in Cornwall are prepping, it’s time to worry.

Imagine if Woman’s Hour made a podcast about preparing for the end times. Prepper follows neurotic, debt-ridden Rachel and hard-as-nails ‘Churchill in Spanx’ Sylvia, working class Mancunians who prep and podcast, sharing knowledge with their community, and showing off just how Armageddon-ready they are.

Told through their podcasts from Sylvia’s garage and featuring ‘apoco-tips’, ‘end of days drills’ and interviews with preppers from around the world, Prepper comically explores how two mismatched women live with the possibility of the end of days, and how they bond over their determination to survive. And fend off zombies.

In this episode - survival courses are road tested!

Comedy written by Caroline Moran and James J. Moran

Sylvia ...... Sue Johnston
Rachel ...... Pearl Mackie
Calhoun ...... Simon Holland Roberts

Producer: Steve Doherty

A Giddy Goat production for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4, first broadcast in February 2019.

28 minutes

On radio

Fri 10 Jan 2025 08:00

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  • Mon 4 Feb 2019 11:30
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Fun ways to prepare for the end of the world

Fun ways to prepare for the end of the world

What can you do to ready yourself for the inevitable global calamity and ensuing chaos?