Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change?

If you can find a gap between football games this week, the last of Micky Flanagan's series What Chance Change is well worth a listen. Partly recorded at his standup gigs, partly in conversation with his family and friends, Flanagan has charted his life from Billingsgate fish market to middle-class delis. This week, he chatted to Sean Lock and considered middle age - thankfully managing to swerve Grumpy Old Men territory.

Just time for a mention of Micky Flanagan's Radio 4 comedy series, What Chance Change? I saw Flanagan's stand-up recently and his riffs on life in the yummy mummy enclave of East Dulwich, south London, had the audience roaring. What Chance Change? takes that routine's premise - how strange it is for a boy from the markets in the East End to move up a social class - and expands on it.

It's excellent, funny and poignant, though you can't help feeling that Radio 4's traditional audience is not quite who Micky is aiming to inspire.

Radio Review: Micky Flanagan - What Chance Change?

A look back at his schooldays was homely and likeable, writes Elisabeth Mahoney.

You might not have heard of Micky Flanagan before but this new comedy series should ensure he becomes a regular - on TV as well as radio. His astute take on social mores and the class system are spot on.