Gyles Brandeth, Riverside Studios
Entertaining. A natural raconteur and entertainer, Gyles Brandreth, has an innate sense of his own physicality. He has beautiful, graceful hands which he can soften and harden like gossamer wings or hatchets, evoking Donald Woolfit, Michael Redgrave, Lord Curzon, a brace of British Prime Ministers or members of the royal family. And this was very much the measure of the evening: a feast of anecdotes, some directly related to his experience as a student, an MP, Countdown or his Oscar Wilde crime series. Others graced the stage of apocryphal but were no less entertaining for all that: Prince Charles with tulips and hamster jam being one of the funniest. The king of the gab, Brandreth has a mellifluous voice, like honeyed syrup, which goes down well whatever the subject or muscular turn of phrase: a rake on his progress..... 
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