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
Legendary cricket broadcaster, Henry Blofeld, takes readers on a charming journey through modern cricket, while looking back at the great games of yesteryear.
Henry has been close to the heart of cricket for over fifty years. He has seen the game grow into a hugely international sport, where franchises continue to have massive influence and more and more games are added to the world calendar. It wasn't always this way and Blowers reflects on how cricket used to be and where it is headed.
In this new book he explores the big shifts, innovations and challenges facing the game today, while looking back at his life and career, recounting his cherished memories of his beloved sport. With his signature wit and insight, he compared the cricketing landscape of today with the cherished memories of yesteryear.
Henry began writing about cricket, for The Times, in May 1962 and in 1972 he started his long career as a commentator with the BBC's Test Match Special. During his career he has written for numerous papers and broadcast for both radio and television for many networks around the world especially in Australia and New Zealand. Henry now tours the country with his one man show.
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As energetic as ever, Johnny Ball will regale you with often unbelievable, but all perfectly true tales from his life.
From watching George Formby, aged 11 (Johnny, not George); his first comedy steps as a Butlin Redcoat; the wonderful Northern Club years; plus touring Singapore and Aden with Harry Secombe and Mombasa with Pan’s People.
Johnny will reveal his crazy Liverpool experiences, his encounters with The Beatles, Dusty Springfield, Roy Orbison, The Bee Gee’s, Ken Dodd and helping start Freddie Starr’s career. He was Bud Flanagan’s last ever TV straight man.
So come and sit back while Johnny tells of the more than one thing he lost on his honeymoon, “The man who robbed a bank and caught a bus home?” Plus the time the Duke of Edinburgh suggested a wife swap, with pictures to prove it!
Johnny Ball has inspired thousands through his children’s TV career. He was one of the hosts of Play School from 1967 onwards and a regular fixture on kids TV from the mid 70s onwards with science and technology programmes including Think of a Number and Johnny Ball Reveals All.
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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.
She rose to fame with BBC-2’s pioneering Late Night Line Up and was widely acclaimed for her excellent arts coverage as well as her campaigning stance on subjects like censorship, abortion, divorce, race and equality.
She is an English journalist, television presenter, an author and playwright and has received a Humanist of the Year award. awarded a Life peerage, by the Labour Party in 2011, is also president of Birkbeck, University of London. It goes on….
With her enthusiasm for the Arts… she is Chairman of the theatre company Shared Experience, Patron for the Plaza Cinema Stockport and more recently Joan has been presenting the wonderful Portrait and Landscape of the Year on TV. She is a true inspiration with a positive influence.
Joan is a long-time champion of women’s rights and was appointed ‘Voice of Older People’. She regularly appears on TV and radio (despite her 90 years), has made many documentaries, still writes for the national press and is an accomplished novelist.
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.
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.
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.
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
Bob Flowerdew is one of Britain's leading organic gardeners, and a television and radio presenter. He is a regular panel member of BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time.
The son of a farmer, his family have been working the land in East Anglia since Elizabethan times. Flowerdew runs a consultancy landscape service, is President of the Norfolk group of the Soil Association, and also teaches at agricultural college. He has written books on gardening including "Going Organic: The Good Gardener's Guide to Getting It Right".
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.
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.