Henry Blofeld is widely respected as the voice of Test Match Special ‘Blowers’, brings his wit and wisdom to the stage once again.
For many Henry burbling commentaries provide a pleasingly onomatopoeic backdrop to a day's cricket, and his frequent gaffes and misidentifications merely add to that charm. He is keen to stress though that it’s not all cricket, in fact most of it isn’t and that every show is different. So, even if you’ve been before you can be sure that it’ll never be the same twice.
“People gather around afterwards in the foyer and say, ‘We had no idea it was like this. We thought it was a cricket show.’ But it’s not. And if you think you’re going to learn how to play a forward defensive, you’ll be sadly disappointed.”
Instead, the talk is based, in the loosest sense, on Henry’s life story, although there’s time for as many after-dinner anecdotes and meandering digressions as there is in a Test Match Special rain break.
The show itself is very tongue-in-cheek and Henry spends a lot of time poking fun at himself and subjects veer from intergalactic travel, to horticulture to mountaineering.
Presented in association with Clive Conway Productions
Spend an evening in the company of the legendary comic John Cleese… in conjunction with Clive Conway Productions.
A man who continues to make us laugh, rock the boat, inspire, and shake things up.
John was born on October 27, 1939, in Weston-Super-Mare, England, into a family of modest means, who considered it important that John had a good education. Here he was often tormented for his height, having reached a height of six feet by the age of twelve, and eventually discovered that being humorous could deflect aggressive behaviour. He grew to love humour and has made an incredible career from his writing and comedy.
Some of John’s life highlights are…… attending Cambridge University to read (study) Law; being
a member of the university's legendary Footlights group, where he wrote and performed in comedy reviews such as “Cambridge Circus,” which toured internationally and went on to spawn so many other comedy classics, such as “I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again,” Monty Pythons’s Flying Circus and the Monty Python films….with Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.
And let’s not forget one of the funniest series ever, that John and then-wife Connie Booth collaborated in, the legendary television series Fawlty Towers (1975).
More recently John has appeared in the Harry Potter series and the James Bond series as Q, in which he began as R before graduating to Q.
John’s two daughters are what he considers to be real highlights of his life alongside promoting education and learning which he does as professor-at-large of Cornell University in New York. John lives in Santa Barbara, California.
Presented in association with Clive Conway Productions.
Spend an evening in the company of the legendary comic John Cleese… in conjunction with Clive Conway Productions.
A man who continues to make us laugh, rock the boat, inspire, and shake things up.
John was born on October 27, 1939, in Weston-Super-Mare, England, into a family of modest means, who considered it important that John had a good education. Here he was often tormented for his height, having reached a height of six feet by the age of twelve, and eventually discovered that being humorous could deflect aggressive behaviour. He grew to love humour and has made an incredible career from his writing and comedy.
Some of John’s life highlights are…… attending Cambridge University to read (study) Law; being
a member of the university's legendary Footlights group, where he wrote and performed in comedy reviews such as “Cambridge Circus,” which toured internationally and went on to spawn so many other comedy classics, such as “I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again,” Monty Pythons’s Flying Circus and the Monty Python films….with Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.
And let’s not forget one of the funniest series ever, that John and then-wife Connie Booth collaborated in, the legendary television series Fawlty Towers (1975).
More recently John has appeared in the Harry Potter series and the James Bond series as Q, in which he began as R before graduating to Q.
John’s two daughters are what he considers to be real highlights of his life alongside promoting education and learning which he does as professor-at-large of Cornell University in New York. John lives in Santa Barbara, California.
Presented in association with Clive Conway Productions.
Spend an evening in the company of the legendary comic John Cleese… in conjunction with Clive Conway Productions.
A man who continues to make us laugh, rock the boat, inspire, and shake things up.
John was born on October 27, 1939, in Weston-Super-Mare, England, into a family of modest means, who considered it important that John had a good education. Here he was often tormented for his height, having reached a height of six feet by the age of twelve, and eventually discovered that being humorous could deflect aggressive behaviour. He grew to love humour and has made an incredible career from his writing and comedy.
Some of John’s life highlights are…… attending Cambridge University to read (study) Law; being
a member of the university's legendary Footlights group, where he wrote and performed in comedy reviews such as “Cambridge Circus,” which toured internationally and went on to spawn so many other comedy classics, such as “I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again,” Monty Pythons’s Flying Circus and the Monty Python films….with Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.
And let’s not forget one of the funniest series ever, that John and then-wife Connie Booth collaborated in, the legendary television series Fawlty Towers (1975).
More recently John has appeared in the Harry Potter series and the James Bond series as Q, in which he began as R before graduating to Q.
John’s two daughters are what he considers to be real highlights of his life alongside promoting education and learning which he does as professor-at-large of Cornell University in New York. John lives in Santa Barbara, California.
Presented in association with Clive Conway Productions.
Spend an evening in the company of the legendary comic John Cleese… in conjunction with Clive Conway Productions.
A man who continues to make us laugh, rock the boat, inspire, and shake things up.
John was born on October 27, 1939, in Weston-Super-Mare, England, into a family of modest means, who considered it important that John had a good education. Here he was often tormented for his height, having reached a height of six feet by the age of twelve, and eventually discovered that being humorous could deflect aggressive behaviour. He grew to love humour and has made an incredible career from his writing and comedy.
Some of John’s life highlights are…… attending Cambridge University to read (study) Law; being
a member of the university's legendary Footlights group, where he wrote and performed in comedy reviews such as “Cambridge Circus,” which toured internationally and went on to spawn so many other comedy classics, such as “I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again,” Monty Pythons’s Flying Circus and the Monty Python films….with Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.
And let’s not forget one of the funniest series ever, that John and then-wife Connie Booth collaborated in, the legendary television series Fawlty Towers (1975).
More recently John has appeared in the Harry Potter series and the James Bond series as Q, in which he began as R before graduating to Q.
John’s two daughters are what he considers to be real highlights of his life alongside promoting education and learning which he does as professor-at-large of Cornell University in New York. John lives in Santa Barbara, California.
Presented in association with Clive Conway Productions.
Spend an evening in the company of the legendary comic John Cleese… in conjunction with Clive Conway Productions.
A man who continues to make us laugh, rock the boat, inspire, and shake things up.
John was born on October 27, 1939, in Weston-Super-Mare, England, into a family of modest means, who considered it important that John had a good education. Here he was often tormented for his height, having reached a height of six feet by the age of twelve, and eventually discovered that being humorous could deflect aggressive behaviour. He grew to love humour and has made an incredible career from his writing and comedy.
Some of John’s life highlights are…… attending Cambridge University to read (study) Law; being
a member of the university's legendary Footlights group, where he wrote and performed in comedy reviews such as “Cambridge Circus,” which toured internationally and went on to spawn so many other comedy classics, such as “I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again,” Monty Pythons’s Flying Circus and the Monty Python films….with Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.
And let’s not forget one of the funniest series ever, that John and then-wife Connie Booth collaborated in, the legendary television series Fawlty Towers (1975).
More recently John has appeared in the Harry Potter series and the James Bond series as Q, in which he began as R before graduating to Q.
John’s two daughters are what he considers to be real highlights of his life alongside promoting education and learning which he does as professor-at-large of Cornell University in New York. John lives in Santa Barbara, California.
Presented in association with Clive Conway Productions.
Spend an evening in the company of the legendary comic John Cleese… in conjunction with Clive Conway Productions.
A man who continues to make us laugh, rock the boat, inspire, and shake things up.
John was born on October 27, 1939, in Weston-Super-Mare, England, into a family of modest means, who considered it important that John had a good education. Here he was often tormented for his height, having reached a height of six feet by the age of twelve, and eventually discovered that being humorous could deflect aggressive behaviour. He grew to love humour and has made an incredible career from his writing and comedy.
Some of John’s life highlights are…… attending Cambridge University to read (study) Law; being
a member of the university's legendary Footlights group, where he wrote and performed in comedy reviews such as “Cambridge Circus,” which toured internationally and went on to spawn so many other comedy classics, such as “I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again,” Monty Pythons’s Flying Circus and the Monty Python films….with Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.
And let’s not forget one of the funniest series ever, that John and then-wife Connie Booth collaborated in, the legendary television series Fawlty Towers (1975).
More recently John has appeared in the Harry Potter series and the James Bond series as Q, in which he began as R before graduating to Q.
John’s two daughters are what he considers to be real highlights of his life alongside promoting education and learning which he does as professor-at-large of Cornell University in New York. John lives in Santa Barbara, California.
Presented in association with Clive Conway Productions.
Consistently one of our best-selling speakers, John Sergeant the former Chief Political Correspondent for the BBC and ITN Political Editor, has been absent from the Clive Conway books for a few years. We are delighted to welcome him back.
An Audience With John Sergeant will be appearing at a theatre near you next year. Watch out for bookings.
Many people will remember John as one of Britain's most popular and respected broadcasters and authors. His award-winning career as a political journalist has been as lengthy as it has been successful and seen him interview big political hitters like Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair.
In recent years though John has returned to his first love of light entertainment and can be seen regularly on programmes like The One Show, Have I Got News For You, QI, Room 101 and the News Quiz, and of course there were those appearances on Strictly……Indeed Sergeant’s two left feet approach to the arts of the ballroom consistently found him at the bottom of the judges score board but the public loved him an d he retrained week after week. He finally left the show in Week 10 saying: "The trouble is that there is now a real danger that I might win the competition. Even for me that would be a joke too far.”
More recently there have been well received documentaries as well including John Sergeant's Tourist Trail, Tracks of Empire - about the Indian Railways, and Britain's First Photo Album about the pioneering photography of Francis Frith.
Arthur Smith — the gravel-voiced master of dry wit and Radio 4’s self-proclaimed “bit of rough” — takes to the stage for an evening of laughter, stories and conversation.
From Grumpy Old Men to Loose Ends, Arthur has carved out a unique space in British comedy as a performer, playwright and occasional wordsmith on Countdown. In this live event, he’s joined by BBC broadcaster Georgy Jamieson for a candid, unscripted chat about everything from life in the 1980s alternative comedy scene to growing old (dis)gracefully — with a few diversions into family, fame, and fox costumes.
Georgy’s warmth and insight draw out stories from Arthur’s colourful past — from his days sweeping streets and advertising chicken burgers in a fox suit, to penning the award-winning play An Evening with Gary Lineker and presenting Excess Baggage and The Smith Lectures on BBC Radio.
This isn’t stand-up. It’s not scripted. It’s a funny, honest, occasionally daft evening with one of Britain’s best-loved comedy voices — not in performance, but in conversation.
Sir Derek Jacobi is an icon of Stage and Screen ... known for his work at the Royal National Theatre, has a BAFTA, Olivier, Emmy, Screen Guild and Tony Award winner and to top it all off Derek was given a Knighthood for his services to theatre by Queen Elizabeth II. Not bad for a boy who grew up in Essex, the son of a corner shop owner and a secretary. From Leytonstone and the Leyton Players to Hamlet at Edinburgh Fringe and a scholarship to Cambridge.
With peers such as Ian McKellen and Trevor Nunn and as one of the founding members of the National Theatre and invited to be a member of the Birmingham Rep, Derek is an enormous talent with Shakespeare running through his blood.
Six decades and so many favourites ... such as ‘I, Claudius’, ‘Gladiator I’, ‘Gladiator II’, ‘Last Tango in Halifax’, ‘The Crown’, ‘The Day of the Jackal’, ‘Nanny McPhee’, ‘Gosford Park’, The Kings Speech’ and much in between.
His Shakespeare work is vast with notable performances in Hamlet and Othello to name a few. And not to forget ... his audio book work as the narrator for the BBC children's series ‘In the Night Garden’. An incredible body of work.
Richard Clifford actor and producer,
Richard starred in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (1993) and ‘Loves Labours Lost’, directed by Kenneth Branagh. Taken part in the MA course at Brunel University - The Shakespeare Authorship Question and has been a director at the Folger for 20 years to study the collection and look at the “Oxford Geneva” bible.
With Richard in the driving seat for the evening, there will be an incredible of insight, joy of Shakespeare and so much more as he is also Derek’s partner since the 1970’s.
Sian Phillips will be discussing her life and astonishingly wide ranging career with her friend director Richard Digby-Day in a series of public conversations. These cover everything from a childhood in deepest Wales to a triumph on Broadway, from her marriage to Peter O’Toole, its ending and her subsequent career as a leading light of stage and television. This is an evening both moving and amusing, a frank looking back at an amazing life.
Sir Derek Jacobi is an icon of Stage and Screen ... known for his work at the Royal National Theatre, has a BAFTA, Olivier, Emmy, Screen Guild and Tony Award winner and to top it all off Derek was given a Knighthood for his services to theatre by Queen Elizabeth II. Not bad for a boy who grew up in Essex, the son of a corner shop owner and a secretary. From Leytonstone and the Leyton Players to Hamlet at Edinburgh Fringe and a scholarship to Cambridge.
With peers such as Ian McKellen and Trevor Nunn and as one of the founding members of the National Theatre and invited to be a member of the Birmingham Rep, Derek is an enormous talent with Shakespeare running through his blood.
Six decades and so many favourites ... such as ‘I, Claudius’, ‘Gladiator I’, ‘Gladiator II’, ‘Last Tango in Halifax’, ‘The Crown’, ‘The Day of the Jackal’, ‘Nanny McPhee’, ‘Gosford Park’, The Kings Speech’ and much in between.
His Shakespeare work is vast with notable performances in Hamlet and Othello to name a few. And not to forget ... his audio book work as the narrator for the BBC children's series ‘In the Night Garden’. An incredible body of work.
Richard Clifford actor and producer,
Richard starred in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (1993) and ‘Loves Labours Lost’, directed by Kenneth Branagh. Taken part in the MA course at Brunel University - The Shakespeare Authorship Question and has been a director at the Folger for 20 years to study the collection and look at the “Oxford Geneva” bible.
With Richard in the driving seat for the evening, there will be an incredible of insight, joy of Shakespeare and so much more as he is also Derek’s partner since the 1970’s.
Sir Derek Jacobi is an icon of Stage and Screen ... known for his work at the Royal National Theatre, has a BAFTA, Olivier, Emmy, Screen Guild and Tony Award winner and to top it all off Derek was given a Knighthood for his services to theatre by Queen Elizabeth II. Not bad for a boy who grew up in Essex, the son of a corner shop owner and a secretary. From Leytonstone and the Leyton Players to Hamlet at Edinburgh Fringe and a scholarship to Cambridge.
With peers such as Ian McKellen and Trevor Nunn and as one of the founding members of the National Theatre and invited to be a member of the Birmingham Rep, Derek is an enormous talent with Shakespeare running through his blood.
Six decades and so many favourites ... such as ‘I, Claudius’, ‘Gladiator I’, ‘Gladiator II’, ‘Last Tango in Halifax’, ‘The Crown’, ‘The Day of the Jackal’, ‘Nanny McPhee’, ‘Gosford Park’, The Kings Speech’ and much in between.
His Shakespeare work is vast with notable performances in Hamlet and Othello to name a few. And not to forget ... his audio book work as the narrator for the BBC children's series ‘In the Night Garden’. An incredible body of work.
Richard Clifford actor and producer,
Richard starred in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (1993) and ‘Loves Labours Lost’, directed by Kenneth Branagh. Taken part in the MA course at Brunel University - The Shakespeare Authorship Question and has been a director at the Folger for 20 years to study the collection and look at the “Oxford Geneva” bible.
With Richard in the driving seat for the evening, there will be an incredible of insight, joy of Shakespeare and so much more as he is also Derek’s partner since the 1970’s.
Sir Derek Jacobi is an icon of Stage and Screen ... known for his work at the Royal National Theatre, has a BAFTA, Olivier, Emmy, Screen Guild and Tony Award winner and to top it all off Derek was given a Knighthood for his services to theatre by Queen Elizabeth II. Not bad for a boy who grew up in Essex, the son of a corner shop owner and a secretary. From Leytonstone and the Leyton Players to Hamlet at Edinburgh Fringe and a scholarship to Cambridge.
With peers such as Ian McKellen and Trevor Nunn and as one of the founding members of the National Theatre and invited to be a member of the Birmingham Rep, Derek is an enormous talent with Shakespeare running through his blood.
Six decades and so many favourites ... such as ‘I, Claudius’, ‘Gladiator I’, ‘Gladiator II’, ‘Last Tango in Halifax’, ‘The Crown’, ‘The Day of the Jackal’, ‘Nanny McPhee’, ‘Gosford Park’, The Kings Speech’ and much in between.
His Shakespeare work is vast with notable performances in Hamlet and Othello to name a few. And not to forget ... his audio book work as the narrator for the BBC children's series ‘In the Night Garden’. An incredible body of work.
Richard Clifford actor and producer,
Richard starred in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (1993) and ‘Loves Labours Lost’, directed by Kenneth Branagh. Taken part in the MA course at Brunel University - The Shakespeare Authorship Question and has been a director at the Folger for 20 years to study the collection and look at the “Oxford Geneva” bible.
With Richard in the driving seat for the evening, there will be an incredible of insight, joy of Shakespeare and so much more as he is also Derek’s partner since the 1970’s.
John Sergeant the former Chief Political Correspondent for the BBC and ITN Political Editor.
Many people will remember John as one of Britain's most popular and respected broadcasters and authors. His award-winning career as a political journalist has been as lengthy as it has been successful and seen him interview big political hitters like Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair.
In recent years though John has returned to his first love of light entertainment and can be seen regularly on programmes like The One Show, Have I Got News For You, QI, Room 101 and the News Quiz, and of course there were those appearances on Strictly……Indeed Sergeant’s two left feet approach to the arts of the ballroom consistently found him at the bottom of the judges score board but the public loved him an d he retrained week after week. He finally left the show in Week 10 saying: "The trouble is that there is now a real danger that I might win the competition. Even for me that would be a joke too far.”
More recently there have been well received documentaries as well including John Sergeant's Tourist Trail, Tracks of Empire - about the Indian Railways, and Britain's First Photo Album about the pioneering photography of Francis Frith.
Presented in association with Clive Conway Productions.
An evening of wartime letters between the actress Celia Johnson and her husband Peter Fleming read by their daughter, Lucy Fleming, and Simon Williams.
These touching and amusing letters from Celia to her husband tell of her experiences during the war – from coping with a large isolated house full of evacuated children, learning to drive a tractor, dealing with rationing, becoming an auxiliary police-woman and all the while accepting offers, when she could get away, to act. She went on to act for David Lean, Noel Coward, wartime propaganda films & broadcasts, and ultimately in 1945 starring in Brief Encounter for which she received an Oscar nomination.
Peter Fleming was away for most of the war - he writes about his adventures and trials working on deception in India and the Far East. Not only are the letters highly engaging but they also provide a fascinating historical insight into a time of true austerity and fearfulness.
Consistently one of our best-selling speakers, John Sergeant the former Chief Political Correspondent for the BBC and ITN Political Editor, has been absent from the Clive Conway books for a few years. We are delighted to welcome him back.
An Audience With John Sergeant will be appearing at a theatre near you next year. Watch out for bookings.
Many people will remember John as one of Britain's most popular and respected broadcasters and authors. His award-winning career as a political journalist has been as lengthy as it has been successful and seen him interview big political hitters like Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair.
In recent years though John has returned to his first love of light entertainment and can be seen regularly on programmes like The One Show, Have I Got News For You, QI, Room 101 and the News Quiz, and of course there were those appearances on Strictly……Indeed Sergeant’s two left feet approach to the arts of the ballroom consistently found him at the bottom of the judges score board but the public loved him an d he retrained week after week. He finally left the show in Week 10 saying: "The trouble is that there is now a real danger that I might win the competition. Even for me that would be a joke too far.”
More recently there have been well received documentaries as well including John Sergeant's Tourist Trail, Tracks of Empire - about the Indian Railways, and Britain's First Photo Album about the pioneering photography of Francis Frith.