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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.

Guy is doing exceptionally well at his new job as a funeral plan salesman, mainly because he always listens to the advice of his imaginary friend, Hennikay, and ignores everything he’s told to do by his real boss, Tony.

This is quite easy to do because, since Tony visited the company’s head office in America, he has started speaking a totally incomprehensible form of corporate gibberish which has made him even more ignorable than before.

So everything is going well until the head of the company pays a surprise visit to learn the secret of Guy’s extraordinary success. Which is a problem for Tony, because he doesn’t know the secret and an even bigger problem for Guy, because he can’t tell anyone that it’s all down to an invisible 11 year old boy from 1976. And to make matters worse, Hennikay, his trusted friend and advisor seems to have disappeared and not even his therapist, Marika, seems able to summon him back.

Bill Bailey stars in this warm, funny look at the confusions of modern life - where adults too often act like and children and it takes a child to make sense of it all.

Written by David Spicer

Guy: Bill Bailey
Hennikay: Max Lester
Marika: Elizabeth Carling
Tony: Tony Gardner
Laura: Lorelei King

Producer: Liz Anstee
ACPL production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4