An evening with Churchill

Following the positive response to Pip Utton’s Adolf in February, Arlington Arts have booked latest show Churchill on Friday, November 9 (8pm).
Big Ben chimes and strikes 13; a magical time when once a year for just over an hour the statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, London, England, comes alive and descends from his plinth to indulge himself with a glass of scotch, a cigar and listening to himself talk. "History will be kind to me as I intend to write it."
He talks of his childhood, parents, education, marriage, painting and writing, his appetites and of course his many years at the centre of the world political stage especially during two world wars. Pip Utton’s new play is not an attempt to decide on Churchill’s greatness nor an attempt to judge. This is just 70 minutes spent in the entertaining company of the man who was voted the Greatest Briton in history in a 2002 BBC poll.
Tickets, priced £11 are available from the box office on (01635) 244246, online via

and from Mary Hare Hearing Centre, Weaver’s Walk, Newbury.