Scholar, wit, former MP andtheatre buff Gyles Brandreth will be the star of a new Evening With... show organised by Henley Festival.

The event at the town's Kenton Theatre on February 15 is expected to be a sell-out, with tickets at £22 and £15.

Mr Brandreth has been everything from Baron Hardup in panto to Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in John Major's Government.

He is a former president of the Oxford Union and artistic director of the Oxford Theatre Festival.

His Henley event is entitled Love Life -- an A to Z of theatrical life, lust, politics and name-dropping for the evening after the night before...

Call 01491 843400 for information.