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Stressed out businessman Guy Starling, a middle aged man aged 45, for reasons quite unknown to him, is suddenly revisited by his imaginary childhood friend, Hennikay.

Starring Bill Bailey as Guy Starling.

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.

Written by David Spicer.

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

Producer: Liz Anstee

A CPL production for Â鶹Éç Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2022.

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