大象传媒

How do older people keep minds active?

Barry discusses various hobbies while all the time keeping an eye on the ferocious dog that Hilary is minding in the hall for the morning.

Barry invites an audience to his weekly lunch club where he scrutinises themes close to his heart. With club secretary Hilary to rein him in, and club treasurer Peter providing support on the civic hall piano, this is the ultimate life-style guide for an ageing nation.

Barry is a cockney moved to the suburbs during the war. He is not given to looking at the old days through rose coloured spectacles, and is well up to speed with current trends. A seemingly harmless old boy, he lures people into a false sense of security, delivering hilariously stinging rebukes or erudite assessments of how the world is treating the over 60s.

Stand-up comedy crossed with sitcom, the show plays out in real time as if we are eavesdropping on a civic hall meeting group.

Written by Alex Lowe and Alex Walsh-Taylor.

Barry ...... Alex Lowe
Hilary ...... Stephanie Cole
Peter ...... Philip Pope

Producer: Alex Walsh-Taylor
Executive Producer: Kevin Dawson

A Whistledown production for 大象传媒 Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2016.