The Alan Davies Show
- Radio sitcom
- BBC Radio 4
- 1998
- 6 episodes (1 series)
A sitcom revolving around the (fictional) life of struggling actor Alan Davies. Stars Alan Davies, Ronni Ancona and Alan Francis.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 5 - Tree
Further details
Alan and Murray get a man over to meddle with their cable so that they can get all the channels. This backfires when the remote control gets very hot. Kate brings in some leaflets (to use as a hat), and is recommended by the meddling man to go to a lost property office and take stuff that is wrongly hers.
They then discover that the man who gave Kate the leaflets is protesting against a tree being torn down to make way for a new road. He is joined by a woman called Poppy, whom Alan finds highly attractive. Meanwhile, Kate goes to the lost property office and tries to claim an umbrella, but the plan backfires when she claims she took some topless photos, and refuses to show her breasts.
Poppy has however taken topless photos, increasing Alan's affections towards her. Kate then joins them and has a look at the photos. Alan learns from the leaflet that John Lennon and Yoko Ono spend some time naked in the tree as well, where they wrote "Imagine". Alan then decides to spend some time in tree doing the nightshift. Kate goes back to the lost property office and meets a different person in charge, who is much easier to trick. She gets both an umbrella and a bag too.
Kate tries to take some photos of her breasts in a photo booth, but is discovered and leaves, forgetting her umbrella. Alan continues to try and please Polly by making her food and delivering it to the tree via a pulley system. The meddling men accidentally eat some of the food and get wind. Kate meanwhile attempts to show the photographs of her breasts, but the umbrella is not handed in.
Murray and Alan take the nightshift again, but this time they get caught in a lightning storm. It is so bad, that they go in. Just as they go in, the road builders come and knock down the tree. The men bring the tree into Alan's flat, just as Poppy arrives. When Poppy discovers the tree, she leaves. What is worse, he is fined £500 for having illegal cable, but he gets the money when the meddling men sell the tree as Beatles memorabilia.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 17th June 1998
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Alan Davies | Alan |
Ronni Ancona | Kate |
Alan Francis | Murray |
Debra Stephenson | Ensemble Actor |
Dave Lamb | Ensemble Actor |
Kim Wall | Ensemble Actor |
Alan Davies | Writer |
Tony Roche | Writer |
Ben Silburn | Writer |
Jane Berthoud | Producer |