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Mike Bubbins
Mike Bubbins: Retrosexual

Mike Bubbins: Retrosexual

  • Radio stand-up
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2022
  • 1 episode

Stand-up special about Mike Bubbins, living a 1970s lifestyle in the modern world.

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Key details

Genre
Stand-Up
Broadcast
2022
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
1
Star
Mike Bubbins
Writer
Mike Bubbins
Producers
Lianne Coop and Siren Turner
Company

Mike Bubbins is a good bloke, a good husband and a good Dad, but he never quite feels like he fits in. Not in an odd way, he's keen to point out. It's just he dresses like he lives in the 70s, his house looks like a 70s film set, and he drives a 70s Ford Cortina.

So yeah, in other words, in an odd way.

He's not done bad for a lad who failed his A-Levels, became a PE teacher (see 'failed his A-levels'), worked as an Elvis impersonator, and then signed up for a writing course but got the wrong day and turned up for a stand-up comedy course instead. Because it was raining, and his wife had already dropped him off, he decided he might as well stay.

Eleven years later, he presents his debut Radio 4 show.

We've all been through a lot, emotionally and psychologically, with the extraordinary events of the pandemic. In the middle of the biggest crisis the world has witnessed since the war, we all had to assess who we were, what our priorities were, what our core relationships are and how robust they really are.

Luckily, Bubbins isn't interested in any of that. He wasn't even involved in the pandemic. Because he lives in the 70s. In this show, he aims to take us back to a time before Covid and other complexities - a much simpler time .

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Sunday 8th May 2022 at 7:15pm on BBC Radio 4
Episode length
30 minutes
Most recent repeats
  • Thursday 23rd May 2024 at 10:00pm on Radio 4 Extra
  • Thursday 16th May 2024 at 6:30pm on Radio 4
  • Saturday 14th May 2022 at 5:30am on Radio 4 Extra

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