John Hegley

and plenty of poems of the people - in particular the dry dry stone waller, the human suitcase, Hercules's grandma and members of his own half-French family - featuring the brother-in-law (who used to stop and ask hitchhikers where they were going and then tell them that he would get there first)

Also pieces about Bristol buses, Devonian bus divers, and Daleks in anger-management counselling.

This former Keats House poet in-residence, two-time Peel session singer with the Popticians, Perrier Award nominee at the Edinburgh fringe, performer in a women's prison in Colombia, with first paid writing being a school day letter in Charles Buchan Football Monthly about Luton Town FC - promises a variety show which includes cardboard animals and emotional participation .

'Just because he is one of the funniest men alive, don't underestimate his dedicated gentleness' -Adrain Mitchell, New Statesman.

'Awesomely mundane' - The Independent

Devised for adults, but not unsuitable for the odd nine-year-old.

Some communal singing optional.

Very little French.

Quick Potato Poem

The spud

sped.

Longer Martian Poem

There once was a creature from space

who entered a three-leggèd race;

he was not very fast,

in fact, he came last

because he was a bag of oven-ready chips.