Judith Lucy - Overwhelmed & Living

Hope you enjoyed the series but if you need more Judith Lucy head to the ABC Listen app. You can hear three exclusive extended interviews. Jenny Odell, the writer who taught us how to do nothing, Jeff Sparrow on why guilt is being manipulated by polluters and Chris Johnstone, the doctor and co-founder of Active Hope, a practice that helps you deal with deal with climate related stress.

Is the future quite so bleak? Maybe we won't all be living in bunkers and doing chin-ups. You can hear more from Jenny Odell, the writer of How to do Nothing, Chris Johnstone, doctor and the co-founder of Active Hope & Jeff Sparrow, who talks about who's really to blame for the climate emergency.

Time to go tiny! Judith moves into a tiny house, with, er, mixed results. And she learns more about how food is produced and how to practise active hope in a time of existential dread. Written and performed by Judith Lucy Producer Beth Atkinson-Quinton Sound engineer David Le May Executive Producer Tom Wright

Time to get ourselves glued to something, people! Despite sorting out her own place and helping out locally, Judith wants to do more. She talks to a teen who sued the Environment Minister and is inspired to go on an Extinction Rebellion protest. Who knows, the next episode might be coming from jail cell?

Doing stuff alone can only get you so far and Judith, for once, enjoys being part of a team. Judith helps out her in local area. She writes letters to her MP, plants trees at her local beach and learns about her area's indigenous history.

If we want to change, start small. So Judith gets tips on how to grow a garden, make her place more eco-friendly and even has a Masterchef finalist cook her (a vegan lunch). Despite all this she still feels guilty about the planet. People are to blame and we can't do anything, right?! Wrong!

Did you make a promise to change things during lockdown? COVID made Judith take a look at how she was living and didn't like what she saw. Is she capable of change and can that change help not just her, but the planet? Find out over the next six episodes. Written and performed by Judith Lucy Producer Beth Atkinson-Quinton Sound engineer David Le May Executive Producer Tom Wright

After lockdown Judith is still asking the big questions. She’s out to change her life and yours for the better in six episodes...

In the series finale, Judith goes back to her home state of Western Australia to try and connect with family, nature in all its glory and the Australian author Tim Winton. Will she feel better, happier and somehow tie all this crap together? WARNING: This episode contains strong language You can read a statement from Subsea 7 about their planned Learmonth Pipeline Fabrication Facility here.

Judith confronts some big questions like, why are we here? Can we ever truly prepare understand death? And why did she became one of those insufferable people who started ‘searching’? WARNING: This episode contains strong language

Who doesn’t read the news and feel like bursting into tears? How do you counter being overwhelmed by the state of the world right now? Judith’s answer is to go on a date with a tree. WARNING: This episode contains strong language

Judith wonders if she should give up comedy? When is it time to change jobs? Possibly when a guy in a bottle shop thinks that you don’t have a career anymore. WARNING: This episode contains strong language

This might make you throw up but Judith really believes we are all here to connect with someone. Yes, have your sick bags at the ready. Whether that’s a partner, someone you disagree with, or reaching out to a person from a different background. How do you make a genuine connection with other people? WARNING: This episode contains strong language

Maybe the jig (and getting jiggy with it) is up. Although, isn’t sex essential to a happy life? Judith takes a look at intimacy and faces up to the fact she’s single and maybe she’ll never be with anyone again. WARNING: This episode contains strong language

What if your neck looks like a gecko?! We don’t live in a society that thinks that’s hot. So Judith looks at wellness, ageing and learns a slice of wisdom that her irritable bowel taught her. Which is to stop obsessing over stuff your body can’t do and concentrate on what it can do. WARNING: This episode contains strong language

A break-up. A really bad break-up. A brother dying. Not being able to look at the news without bursting into tears. Can Judith rediscover her happiness? It starts with a phone call before a gig with fellow comedian Denise Scott. WARNING: This episode contains strong language

Comedian Judith Lucy is totally overwhelmed by the state of the world and her own life. The family she grew up in is dead, she's a lot closer to dying than she wants to be and now after a particularly bad break-up, she's single again. So, great news Australia! Judith Lucy is going to solve her problems, and yours, over the course of a mere eight episodes, simply by chatting to some experts and having some vaguely humiliating experiences so you don't have to. You'll laugh, you'll cry and you'll be absolutely thrilled that you are not Judith Lucy. Episode 1 out on March 6th.