Following the international sell-out success
of her previous show Cara Josephine across
the UK, Europe, in Australia and New York,
the star of BBC Radio 4’s Romance and
Adventure, All of the Planet’s Wonders and
presenter of Short Cuts, tours her eighth solo
stand-up show nationwide in 2017 and heads
to the Kettering Arts Centre on Friday 3rd
February.

This is a show about optimism and
hopefulness, about looking for people and
finding things to look up to. It’s about wanting
more from life than it might be up for giving
out. It’s about struggling with realising what
you are, who you are and what you can’t
change about yourself, and about really
feeling like an outsider for the first time. It’s
a bit about having faith in younger people,
and friendship, and activism, and solidarity.
Actually, Josie has been busy interviewing
activists about what they do and why, so
it’s also about politics and making things
happen. And there’s probably a bit where
she pretends to be a push-button shower,
so it should be silly and fun too, with a few
exciting bits in it.

At 34, Josie thought by now that she would
have children, and be in love, and have a
country that didn’t vote with the far right
parties to march us all off a cliff. Oh, and she
wanted to be taller and better looking…
Josie presents Radio 4’s popular short
documentary series Short Cuts, which is also
one of the top downloaded podcasts. She
regularly writes for The Guardian and has
recently appeared on The Island (Channel
4), The Superhuman’s Show (Channel 4),
Russell Howards Stand Up Central (Comedy
Central) and Dara O’Briain’s Go 8 Bit.

Josie is kindly offering two
lucky readers of Village
Connect the chance to
win a pair of tickets to her
Kettering performance.

To enter the competition,
please email your details to
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Tuesday 31st January 2017.

www.josielong.com @JosieLong