
Don't Forget The Driver
- TV comedy drama
- BBC Two
- 2019
- 6 episodes (1 series)
Comedy about a coach driver and single father whose mundane life is challenged. Stars Toby Jones, Claire Rushbrook, Marcia Warren, Jo Eaton-Kent, Luwam Teklizgi and more.
Episode menu
Series 1, Episode 4

Further details
Peter and Kayla are forced to leave Rita alone while they go to work.
At the coach depot Peter prepares for a trip to Hampton Court with a large group of Japanese tourists and his co-driver Mel. They discuss the events of the last few days by a river bank, only to be confronted by an angry fisherman who accuses them of spooking his fish. The normally placid Peter, pushed to breaking point, finds his voice and shouts back.
Meanwhile Rita heads into town to get her phone fixed, desperate to contact her brother. But the danger she is in quickly becomes apparent and Peter is forced to take a detour home with his passengers in tow, ending his daytrip disastrously.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Tuesday 30th April 2019
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- BBC Two
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
Toby Jones | Peter Green |
Claire Rushbrook | Fran |
Marcia Warren | Joy |
Jo Eaton-Kent | Bradley |
Luwam Teklizgi | Rita |
Danny Kirrane | Squeaky Dave |
Erin Kellyman | Kayla |
Dino Kelly | Lech |
Toby Jones | Barry Green |
Luke Sullivan | Ade |
Anthony Somers | Roy |
Imran Yusuf | Dilip |
Jo Hartley | Mel |
Tsuwayuki Saotome | Mr. Takahashi |
Ralphy Kirkby | Boy on Beach |
Kit Kirkby | Boy on Beach |
Tim Crouch | Angry Angler |
Toby Jones | Writer |
Tim Crouch | Writer |
Emma Genders | Script Editor |
Tim Kirkby | Director |
Holly Pullinger | Producer |
Jane Featherstone | Executive Producer |
Naomi De Pear | Executive Producer |
Kate Daughton | Executive Producer |
Donald Mackinnon | Line Producer |
Tom Hemmings | Editor |
Melanie Allen | Production Designer |
Sam Jones | Casting Director |
Sam Perry | Costume Designer |
Jamie Cairney | Director of Photography |
Bean Ellis | Make-up Designer |
Malcolm Davies | 1st Assistant Director |
Press
There is still time to get caught up in this downbeat dramedy, which, with typical Toby Jones understatement, has quietly become one of the best things on television. In this fourth episode, coach driver Peter (Jones) comes a cropper explaining Shakespeare to a Japanese tourist, but he is soon back tackling more topical national anxieties, such as how much responsibility to take for the refugee crisis. It is an abstract problem made flesh by his house guest Rita (Luwam Teklizgi).
Ellen E. Jones, The Guardian, 30th April 2019