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The Alan Davies Show

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.

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Series 1, Episode 3 - Mr Strawberry

Alan becomes Mr Strawberry and Murray enters every competition going.

Further details

Alan gets a television role as The Gay Miner, but ends up having no work afterwards, apart from adverts. Murray suggests that in order to make money, Alan should what he does and enter lots of competitions.

However, Alan learns from his agent Richard that there has been a mix-up in his advert. Alan has to prance about as a strawberry. Because he is chatting up a woman, he pretends he is playing in a major role and ends up doing the role.

Alan discovers from Kate and Murray that his role as Mr Strawberry has made him famous. Murray also becomes obsessed with a holiday competition given by cod-portions. Murray decides to tear of some coupons rather than buy the boxes. However, he ends up being arrested for vandalism.

Kate tries to get around the competition problems by getting her pupils involved. Meanwhile, Murray phones the cod-portion company to get the exact details of the competition.

Alan discovers his advert is even worse than he feared. When he invites his girlfriend over, he tries to prevent her from seeing the advert. Alan then learns that the Mr Strawberry marketing campaign is the biggest ever in the country. Eventually, the girlfriend finds out and she leaves him because of advert.

After being dumped, Richard tells Alan that the marketing campaign is going global, and he cannot escape from it. Murray and Kate do win their competition and a holiday to Iceland, but there is a downside - they have to dress up as cod-portions for a publicity campaign.

Broadcast details

Date
Wednesday 3rd June 1998
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Length
30 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Friday 29th May 2009 8:30am Radio 7
Friday 29th May 2009 10:00pm Radio 7
Wednesday 24th March 2010 10:00pm Radio 7
Thursday 3rd March 2011 5:30pm Radio 7
Sunday 6th March 2011 3:30pm Radio 7
Friday 4th November 2011 7:00am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 4th November 2011 5:30pm Radio 4 Extra
Wednesday 7th November 2012 7:00am Radio 4 Extra
Wednesday 7th November 2012 5:30pm Radio 4 Extra
Thursday 8th November 2012 5:30am Radio 4 Extra
Thursday 13th February 2014 7:00am Radio 4 Extra
Thursday 13th February 2014 5:30pm Radio 4 Extra
Friday 14th February 2014 5:30am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 19th March 2021 8:30am Radio 4 Extra
Friday 19th March 2021 12:30pm Radio 4 Extra
Friday 19th March 2021 7:30pm Radio 4 Extra

Cast & crew

Cast
Alan Davies Alan
Ronni Ancona Kate
Alan Francis Murray
Guest cast
Debra Stephenson Ensemble Actor
Dave Lamb Ensemble Actor
Writing team
Alan Davies Writer
Tony Roche Writer
Ben Silburn Writer
Production team
Jane Berthoud Producer

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