Alan hosts the first multimedia, radio-based book club in East Anglia. Also, a charity drive runs into difficulty when a reformed drug addict is too cheerful.
Alan is joined in the studio by ex-special forces soldier Tommy Gaskell, an outdoor survival and naturalist expert. He also invites younger listeners to call in with their favourite tongue-twisters.
Alan pledges to eat a different type of ethnic cuisine each day for a week - his way of celebrating the cultural diversity of Norwich. He also attempts to read out listeners' sad love stories, in an unwise nod perhaps to Simon Bates' 'Our Tune'.
Alan is joined in the studio by co-presenter Zoë Scott, and they invite calls about 'forced-celebrity breeding'. Later, they're joined by Agony Aunt Polly Maplin, who lends a sympathetic ear to listeners' personal problems.
Alan welcomes 'Internet Millionaire' Daniel Langford to the studio, in the hope of finding out the secrets of his success. Meanwhile, Sidesick Simon is the bearer of bad news.
Alan invites folk musician Blackbird Goodbrook into the studio to sing some songs about bees, before getting real with a reformed young offender turned youth leader.