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Episode 1:- When TV chatshow host Jack Harris dies, his childhood friend Dave is commissioned to write Jack's biography. But Dave discovers he can't write a sanitised version of Jack's life. he wants to tell the truth. Written by Jon Canter, abridged by Fiona McAlpine and read by Stephen Mangan.

Episode 2:- Dave and Jack grow up in a north London Jewish suburb. Jack will one day be famous. Dave will do nothing with his life. But as children, it seems Dave is the one destined for great things.

Episode 3:- Dave and Jack are teenage schoolfriends. Dave is good at lessons, but Jack, who's bottom of the class, has something that can't be learnt - charisma. Try as he might, his housemaster can't break Jack's self-confidence.

Episode 4:- During school cross-country race, Jack lures Dave up a tree to take drugs. But when the two boys are caught, the Headmaster punishes the wastrel Jack and the star pupil Dave in very different ways.

Episode 5:- Dave is a Cambridge graduate living in a squat. Jack runs his own jewellery business and calls on Dave to help him lure an American soap star into wearing one of his rings. It's Jack's first meeting with a famous person and although it's a disaster, a seed of greatness is sown.

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Episode 6: Dave has been commissioned to write the authorised biography of his friend Jack Harris but instead he's writing what really happened.

Episode 7: Jack visits Dave in his cottage in Suffolk and asks his partner Jess to paint a portrait of him.

Episode 8: Dave is dumped by girlfriend Jess, so Jack invites his friend for a night out in London to cheer him up. But an evening quickly becomes a week when Jack takes Dave home to the mansion he shares with his scary wife Rita and their adopted son.

Episode 9:Jack loses his TV chat show, his marriage is a sham and he's plagued by sleaze as Dave decides to sell photos of him dallying with prostitutes to a Sunday newspaper in a bid to solve their problems.

Episode 10: Dave has't written a word of Jack's authorised biography and his terrifying publisher Caroline Bliss wants the non-existent manuscript.