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Introducing Hennikay

Bill Bailey stars as a stressed-out businessman whose life is unexpectedly turned upside down by someone he hasn’t seen for 45 years.

Bill Bailey stars as Guy Starling, a middle aged man, who, after 45 years, and for reasons quite unknown to him, is suddenly revisited by his imaginary childhood friend Hennikay.

It's the biggest day in his career and he is on the brink of closing the biggest deal in the history of Maidstone, but when Guy Starling strides into his office at Solutify Technology, a software house that develops games for grown-ups to waste their time playing on their phones, he is confronted with an 11-year-old boy, playing keepy-uppies.

And to make matters worse, no one else can see or hear him. Because he is Hennikay, Guy’s imaginary friend from his lonely childhood.

Neither of them knows why he is there after all these years, but he refuses to leave and even though he sees the world through the naïve eyes of a child from 1976, Hennikay might just be there to help his oldest (and only) friend in the world save the day and close the deal.

Cast:
Guy – Bill Bailey
Tony – Sanjeev Bhaskar
Marika – Elizabeth Carling
Kallie – Anna Leong Brophy
Don – John Schwab
Hennikay – Max Pattison

Written by David Spicer
Producer: Liz Anstee
A CPL production for 91Èȱ¬ Radio 4

First broadcast on 91Èȱ¬ Radio 4 in 2021.

Available now

28 minutes

Last on

Wed 23 Nov 2022 05:30

Broadcasts

  • Sun 27 Jun 2021 19:15
  • Fri 2 Jul 2021 07:30
  • Fri 2 Jul 2021 17:30
  • Fri 2 Jul 2021 22:00
  • Sat 3 Jul 2021 05:30
  • Tue 15 Nov 2022 18:30
  • Tue 22 Nov 2022 07:30
  • Tue 22 Nov 2022 17:30
  • Tue 22 Nov 2022 22:00
  • Wed 23 Nov 2022 05:30