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WRIGLEY RETURNS!

BERNARD WRIGLEY

Saturday 26th September at 7.30pm

Tickets £8

It is just 40 years since BERNARD WRIGLEY turned professional after his regular performances at Bury Folk Club got him noticed by the director of the Bolton Octagon Theatre. Since then he has enjoyed one of the most varied careers in show business.

From writing songs for stage and television Bernard soon progressed to acting at the Octagon and within a couple of years had parts in TV dramas including Alan Bennett's first two television films: Day Out and Sunset Across the Bay. He still found time to: write topical songs for a Granada consumer programme; perform regularly on BBC Radio's Folk on 2; appear twice in Coronation Street; guest on The Fivepenny Piece Show (a band he would later join); be a regular on Victoria Wood's Wood and Walters; sing for the Queen at a Command Performance and meet her afterwards. And this was all before the end of the 1970's!

He has made many memorable commercials and acted in some of the most successful TV series of the last three decades (Dinner Ladies, Phoenix Nights, Emmerdale, The Royal, Heartbeat, Last of the Summer Wine) and on stage at the Manchester Royal Exchange. The list goes on and on: pantomimes in Bolton ; tours with the Houghton Weavers and with the Oldham Tinkers; films including A Private Function and Brassed Off; morning shows on Radio Lancashire; 16 albums and 4 books. Organising his appointments diary must be a full time job.

One date in that diary that can't be missed is his show at the Thwaites Empire Theatre, Blackburn on 26th September. It promises to be a memorable evening of songs, stories and laughter from a Lancashire legend.

  

For more information go to: bernardwrigley.blogspot.com