Henry Normal and Nigel Planer

NIGEL PLANER is a comedy legend, an actor, writer and more importantly for this show he’s a great poet. He is best known as Neil from The Young Ones, plus many other acclaimed performances including appearances in Blackadder, Inside No 9 and The Comic Strip. We are delighted to welcome him to the Helicon stage where he joins HENRY NORMAL, BBC Radio 4’s ‘poet in reticence’ to reunite a team that entertains, educates and informs (but mostly entertains it must be said). Expect poetry, stories, jokes, Q&A, fun, knitwear and a few surprises.

Henry is a writer, poet, TV & Film Producer, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Manchester Literature festival) and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. In June 2017 he was honoured with a special BAFTA for services to television. He co-wrote and script edited the multi-award winning Mrs Merton show and the spin off series Mrs Merton and Malcolm. He also co-created and co-wrote the first series of The Royle Family.