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Jacob Hawley's Welcome to Britain

New Comedy Award finalist Jacob Hawley on living in Brexit Britain, a working class man from a leave voting town. From 2019.

Jacob Hawley is a BBC New Comedy Award Finalist - a tattoo-emblazoned young man from a working class, leave-voting town.

He now boasts an arts degree, a vegetarian girlfriend and an almost convincing concern for climate change - so not far off Billy Elliot.

Jacob's stand-up show shares material from his 2018 Edinburgh show 'Howl' so that foreigners and, if they’re listening, aliens, can find out first hand what Britain is really like.

This is all based on Jacob's experiences of the monotonous suburbs, the insular small towns, the hypocritically righteous city and their inhabitants.

Written and performed by Jacob Hawley.

Producer: Daisy Knight

An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in June 2019.

28 minutes

Last on

Sun 17 Dec 202322:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra

Broadcasts

  • Sun 2 Jun 201919:15
    BBC Radio 4
  • Fri 7 Jun 201907:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Fri 7 Jun 201917:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Fri 7 Jun 201922:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sat 8 Jun 201905:30
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sun 17 Dec 202322:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra