Alan Davies reflects on childhood abuse, dealing with anger and being diagnosed with cancer

Alan Davies reflects on childhood abuse, dealing with anger and being diagnosed with cancer

This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine.Flying west across the International Date Line erases a day from the calendar. For most, it’s a curious geographical twist. For Alan Davies, travelling from Los Angeles to Melbourne in the summer of 2023 became something symbolic when 3 August vanished – it was the day his father, who had sexually abused him from the age of eight to 13, took his final breath. “It was weird because, technically,…