Well slap my thigh and call me Dick - it must be pantomime time!

I've seen a lot of pantomimes in my time – I was taken to see my first one when I was just 3-years-old. Admittedly I only lasted about three minutes before screaming in terror and having to be taken home when the Demon King made his entry in a crash of thunder... 

I've seen everything from village hall productions to "star-studded" casts at the London Palladium but last night's Dick Whittington & his Cat, at the Fisher Theatre in Bungay, was one of the best, definitely in my Top Three Ever! Up there with the production of Cinderella at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith in the early 1980s – when I became accidentally trapped in a life with Princess Michael of Kent. But that's another story.

It had everything you would want from a traditional panto – and all driven along by a cracking, enthusiastic, energetic cast. Here's me with Steve Peck (King Rat) + Simon Michael Morgan (Alderman Fitzwarren) + Hayley Evenett (Dick Whittington). And, appropriately enough, I'll be interviewing all three of them on theatre superstitions and folklore for the next episode of the Urban Fantasist Digital Radio Show.