Benson at Sixty

Martin Benson, after a lifetime away, has made it home to Merseyside, his sherbet lemons all sucked down, his penguins all stripped bare. He's bought a house at the top of his town and filled it with souvenirs of a wandering life. With memories and a stern partner, a motorcycle test examiner, Ted, who tripped over him comatose one dark night on the prom, sensed that Mr Benson was at battle with the bottle, took him to a meeting of QA (Queer Alcoholics) and moved in. After a life spent in the shallows, Benson has come to the point when he must face reality.