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Sylvia Garrett, a cut-throat shop-managing baby boomer (Sue Johnston), and 27-year-old Rachel Olende, self-obsessed and having a quarter-life crisis (Lydia West) continue their podcast for anyone interested in surviving the coming breakdown of society - Prepper.

Preppers are a large and rapidly growing global community who have taken Armageddon readiness one step further than most. They’re actively skilling up, laying down supplies and readying themselves for ‘the end of the world’, in whatever form it comes. If people in south Manchester are prepping, it’s probably time to worry.

Aimed at both long-time preppers and the newly curious, Prepper gets to grips with the day-to-day challenges of getting ‘Armageddon-ready’ through pre-recorded features, on-air debates and interaction with listeners around the world​.​ The real story of Prepper, however, is the warped mother-daughter relationship between the two hosts, as Rachel’s deep seated neediness rubs up against Sylvia’s iron self-reliance.

The first series of Prepper won the Writers Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Comedy 2020. This second series, written by Caroline Moran, was delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic. No, the irony did not escape us.

In this series, while Sylvia (Sue Johnston - The Royle Family, Downton Abbey) continues to broadcast from her well-appointed double garage in south Manchester, Rachel (Lydia West - It's a Sin, Years and Years) is banished to a gazebo in the garden.

Cast:
Sylvia is played by Sue Johnston OBE
Rachel is played by Lydia West

Written by Caroline Moran
Technical Presentation: Jerry Peal
Producer: Steve Doherty

A Giddy Goat production for ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 4