The official script for the box-office smash movie, featuring every ruddy word (and stage direction) of Alan's seamless transformation from natural-born broadcaster into fully fledged and occasionally fully dressed hostage negotiator. Contains deleted scenes and an exclusive Foreword by Steve Coogan. With a television career behind him and a much-coveted breakfast slot in his spiritual home, regional digital radio, there was only one place left for Alan Partridge to turn: Hollywood! Or rather, an Anglo-French funded co-production for the big screen. Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa sees Alan face his biggest challenge since he spent six months in a travel tavern, and is almost certainly the first time he has handled a loaded gun since he was a prime-time BBC2 presenter. When his beloved income-source North Norfolk Digital is taken over by a faceless media conglomerate, Alan's inimitable instinct for self-preservation leads to a violent and bloody siege on the radio station by an unhinged, nay mentalist, DJ, and a hostage crisis for which there can be only one man with the chat to diffuse it ... Featuring a cast of old and new Partridge favourites, including Sidekick Simon, assistant Lynn and Michael the Geordie, Alpha Papa is proof that while the jury's out on whether you can keep a good man down, it's an outright fact that you can't keep a good regional broadcaster off the airwaves.

アラン・パートリッジという男は、滑稽なまでの自意識と偏狭な愛国心の化身です。本書は単なる台本を超え、地方局のラジオDJという「狭い世界」を守ろうとする個人の、卑怯で高潔な魂の彷徨を鋭利なユーモアで描きます。巨大資本による再編への抵抗を、一人の男の保身という矮小な動機に落とし込む冷徹な皮肉は、現代社会における個の在り方を問い直す文学的強度を備えています。 映像版が爆発的なテンポで圧倒する一方で、脚本はアランの歪んだ思考をより克明に浮き彫りにします。ト書きから滲み出る強烈な自尊心と孤独は、視覚情報を削ぎ落としたテキストならではの贅沢な体験です。未公開シーンを含め、映像と活字を往復することで、この偏屈な英雄の物語は立体的かつ完璧な喜劇へと昇華されるでしょう。