Joz Norris: A Small Talk on Small Talk

Available for 19 days

Joz Norris doesn’t do small talk, but he’s moving home. So he's having to attend lots of flat-viewings and finding himself repeatedly having to chat with strangers. Desperately, even by his own standards, he’s just answered the question, “What do you do in your spare time?” with “I went to a Van Morrison gig in 2016… but it wasn’t very good…” He remains mortified by just how hard he finds forcing himself to deal with new people. In this comedy special, he unpacks why small talk is so utterly, existentially, horrible and invites you to thirty minutes inside Joz’s head – it’s a bit of a squeeze, but an intelligent, creative and rather noisy place! Like his live shows, this half-hour special anchors itself around autobiographical moments, and incorporates some of his funniest, stupidest and most imaginative routines constructed into a narrative about loss, recovery and how small talk has ruined his life. No Van Morrisons were harmed in the making of this programme. Joz .... Joz Norris Lucy .... Lucy Pearman Writer: Joz Norris Producer: Steve Doherty A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in January 2021.