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2. Grown-Up Stuff

Episode 2 of 4

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

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.

Time has passed and Hennikay is still inexplicably and maddeningly in Guy’s life. Every morning when he wakes up, his 11-year-old friend from 1976 is there, making a noisy mess, asking endless questions and generally being as annoying as all 11-year-boys were back in 1976.

And there is nothing Guy can do about it.

So, one Saturday morning, after a particularly typical Friday night out in Maidstone, a very hung-over Guy tries to lay down some adult ground rules to his unwanted housemate and educate him about life in the modern grown-up world.

But Guy’s grown-up modern world gets particularly complicated that morning when he discovers a strange woman in his spare bedroom and has no idea who she is or how she got there. Is she his imaginary girlfriend? Who keeps ordering mysterious boxes from Amazon? And when his boss’s suspicious wife turns up demanding to know where he was last night and what he was doing, why doesn’t he have a clue what to tell her?

If this is what modern life as a grown-up is really like, then young Hennikay is very unimpressed with how his old friend has turned out.

Cast:
Guy – Bill Bailey
Tony – Dave Lamb
Nikita - Polly Frame
Lyrissa - Tracy-Ann Oberman
Harry - Paul Panting
Hennikay – Max Pattison

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

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28 minutes

Broadcasts

  • Tue 29 Nov 2022 18:30
  • Tue 6 Dec 2022 22:00
  • Mon 25 Nov 2024 14:15