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Lock up your men - I’m on the prowl

9:40am Tuesday 21st May 2013

BRITISH comedy treasure Julian Clary is back doing what he does best, making people laugh.

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I’m so happy I D-Sided to give up jet-set life of a boy band star

9:11am Wednesday 15th May 2013

HE travelled the world as part of boy band D-Side, who had chart hits in the UK and Japan, but when Derek Moran landed a job presenting kids TV programme Milkshake! he knew that was where his heart really lay.

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A classic tale with themes for today

9:00am Saturday 11th May 2013

A CLASSIC tale trimmed down for a new generation. That’s Company Boudin’s the Count of Monte Cristo.

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Moliere over the Mersey as poet reworks classic drama

8:00am Friday 10th May 2013

FOLLOWING the huge successes of their collaboration on Tartuffe and the Hypochondriac, English Touring Theatre and Liverpool Playhouse complete a trilogy of Roger McGough adaptations of classic Moliere comedies with the Misanthrope.

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Players present Talking Heads

9:00am Wednesday 8th May 2013

THE next production by West Bergholt’s Orpen Players is a stage version of Alan Bennett’s acclaimed TV series Talking Heads.

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How I found the bones of a king

10:20am Tuesday 7th May 2013

THE historian who inspired the successful search for the last resting place of Richard III will deliver the annual Dudley White Lecture at Essex University this week.

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I’ve performed in lingerie to royalty – now I’m set for musical

8:20am Thursday 2nd May 2013

ONCE an art form that was performed behind closed doors and in dark dank clubs, burlesque has come out of the shadows in recent years.

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Eric Idle’s political farce at Headgate

11:00am Tuesday 30th April 2013

THERE’S more rudeness at the Headgate Theatre in Colchester this week.

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The mad world of Bill Bailey

9:00am Friday 19th April 2013

HE may be one of Britain’s best-known comics, but as a youngster, Bill Bailey had other ideas about what his future might hold.

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Fancy your own Strictly dance?

10:00am Tuesday 9th April 2013

PASHA Kovalev shot to fame on hit TV show Strictly Come Dancing. Now he brings fellow TV dance star Katya Virshilas and their new live show to Clacton.

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