"My name is Lynn Ruth Miller I am 87 years old and every morning something magic happens to me: I wake up”
Join Lynn Ruth for the recording of her first Radio 4 stand-up comedy special. A show not about getting old, but about staying young.
Born in Toledo, Ohio in the 1933 during the great depression, Lynn Ruth has lived through the Second World War, fifteen presidents and two failed marriages and for a while she lived out of a van in her own version of Nomadland.
After a career as a writer, tutor, newspaper columnist, a theatre usher, saleswoman and once a telephone Madame, her life completely changed when she started performing comedy when she was 70 years old. She now lives in the UK and is still going strong. Lynn Ruth is not your average 87 year old! Please join us for an incredibly funny and irreverent show.
Tickets for this special recording are limited and will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis.
Date: Thursday 6 July
Online access from: 6.30pm
Live recording starts: 7pm
Successful applicants will be invited to watch and listen to this live recording using Zoom .
In order for the BBC to be able to record your reactions throughout, you will also be given access to our Virtual Audience Recording system, which will need to be opened in an up-to-date version of Google Chrome on a PC or Mac (tablets and phones are not currently supported). You will be able to hear reaction from all other audience members live, so we hope that even though you are probably sitting at home, we can try and recreate the feeling that you’re part of a live audience!
Audience members will be encouraged to react in the same way you would in a theatre - laugh, applaud and react whenever you want to, and when we mix everything together it will sound amazing!
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