It Ain't Half Hot Mum to Bombardier after Solly is demobbed and sent back to Britain. The soldiers are under the orders of Battery Sergeant Major "Shut Up" Williams, a belligerent Welshman who has spent almost all of his life as a professional soldier. In turn, Williams reports to the two officers in charge of the Concert Party: Captain Ashwood and Lieutenant-Colonel Reynolds. Both Ashwood and Reynolds are characterised as coming from upper-class backgrounds. Ashwood, the younger officer, is rather stupid and slightly excitable, while Reynolds is older and more worldly-wise and sensible. While often bemoaning the rough conditions of Army life, both Ashwood and
Russell T Davies generations. Although "Cucumber" was designed as a self-contained serial focusing on the life of one man, Davies envisioned "Banana" as open-ended with the potential to continue after its sister series finished. After "Cucumber", Davies returned to the BBC in 2016 to produce an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Davies credits the play as "opening his eyes to drama" after he starred in a school version of the play as Bottom. The following year, Davies produced and wrote the screenplay for "A Very English Scandal", an adaptation of the book of the same name regarding the Thorpe