Will Gore

Henry Winkler is best known for playing the super-cool Fonz in Happy Days, but in recent years he has also perfected the art of being super-bad as Captain Hook in panto.

Writer Lee Hall achieved phenomenal success when his screenplay for Billy Elliott became a worldwide hit, both on screen and stage.

Next month stars from the worlds of rock, pop and classical music will descend on the Royal Borough for the Hampton Court Palace Festival. A gig from former Beatle Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band promises to be one of the main draws and ahead of the show Ringo took some time out to speak exclusively to Will Gore about his favourite Beatles’ tracks, what inspired him to take up the drums and plenty more besides.

Frank Turner has worked long and hard at becoming an overnight success. After an early career as front man of post-punk band Million Dead, he spent many a year plugging away as a solo artist, releasing a series of cult albums and EPs, clocking up more than 1,000 gigs in the process.

This year Mr Benn is celebrating his 40th anniversary and Tall Stories Theatre Company is marking the occasion by bringing the fancy dress wearing time traveller to the stage.

With only one game to go, the season is almost done and dusted, I for one am mightily relieved.

As a rule British theatre’s are loathe to introduce their audiences to contemporary works by foriegn playwrights. Classics by heavyweights such as Chekhov, Ibsen and Strindberg get regular airings but translations of modern foreign plays seldom get much stage time in the UK.

Michelle Paver is an author who until recently was best known to younger readers.

From Avatar to Alice in Wonderland, these films have done a brisk trade at the box office. Perhaps unsurprisingly, fans at the artier end of the film spectrum have been fairly sniffy about this return to 3D, but things might just be changing.

In 1967 Barnes resident David Pinner, 70, wrote Ritual, a book that provided the inspiration for the cult horror film, The Wicker Man. This month the book is finally being re-issued and the profilic author spoke to Will Gore about his creation.