Recital is given by Steve Bowey of St Mary’s Shaw-cum Donnington.

Tickets not required, retiring collection.

Even without his clipboard, Denis Norden is instantly recognisable as one of television’s most enduring personalities. Readers who have said goodbye to 50 will know that Denis Norden’s career stretches back more than half a century to the golden age of radio and the pioneering years of television comedy.

With the late Frank Muir, he created the long-running Take It From Here for the wireless - as he still prefers to call it - in 1947. This was followed by one of the first TV sitcoms, Whack-O!, which starred Jimmy Edwards as a whisky-swigging, cane-wielding headmaster and notched up eight series.

2006 Newbury Young Musician of the Year, Rosie Toll comes back to Newbury with Liesbeth Allart for a truly exciting performance (please note this concert was postponed from Autumn ‘09).

Mortimer Dramatic Society hosts more of its popular Supper Evenings.

The director, Judy Winter, has put together a bright and pleasant evening of popular music and amusing sketches to accompany a sumptuously catered meal.

With selections from some hit contemporary West End and Broadway shows and some classic favourites from composers such as Irvine Berlin and Cole Porter, musically there is surely something for everybody.

Tickets include the meal. Mortimer Dramatic Society’s Supper Evenings are always immensely popular so we would advise you to book early for this fabulous night out which will leave you tapping your feet and even, hopefully, singing along.

Come along and experience Another Opening, Another Show at St. John’s Hall, West End Road, Mortimer.

The youngest comic ever to win the Perrier award (for his Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut in 1990) Sean Hughes is back with a brand new show, bursting at the seams with the darkly brilliant, self-deprecating barbed wit that has kept him at the top of his game ever since.

The star of The Last Detective (ITV), Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC) and Sean’s Show (Channel 4) whose dark, explosive style and quick-fire audience banter have made him a household name.

Age Guide: 16+