Robert will be signing copies of the new edition of ‘The Carry On Story’ at the N.E.C. Birmingham’s Memorabilia on Saturday 28th March. He’ll be joined by a host of Carry On favourites: Liz Fraser, Sally Geeson, Jacki Piper, Fenella Fielding, Amanda Barrie, Alan Curtis, Melvyn Hayes and Sandra Caron. Also present will be Robert’s good friend, Jenny Hanley, and Colin Baker. So don’t forget to bring your Big Finish plays to get signed. To repeat, Robert and the Carry On team will only be appearing on the Saturday of this two-day event. See you there!

The Heritage Foundation will be holding a special Sunday lunch in honour of one of our best-loved actors, Leslie Phillips C.B.E.; O.B.E. The event will take place on Sunday 10th May at the Marriott Hotel, 128 King Henry’s Road, NW3.

Confirmed guests, so far, are:

LYSETTE ANTHONY whose films include Krull, Woody Allen’s Husbands and Wives and Mel Brooks’s Dracula – Dead and Loving it. She acted with Leslie in Robert’s radio play Doctor Who: ‘Assassin in the Limelight’.

PAUL COLE: actor, writer, producer and director whose work has ranged from Hammer’s Dracula to ‘The Tweenies’. Acted with Leslie in Carry On Teacher.

RAY COONEY: The undisputed King of farce with his ‘Run for Your Wife’ being the most successful of many West End comedies. Leslie starred in several of his productions and the two acted together in the films The Night we Dropped a Clanger, Not Now Comrade and Not Now Darling.

MICHAEL CRAIG: prolific Broadway and West End actor with a string of classic British films to his credit. Acted with Leslie in Doctor in Love.

LARRY DANN: actor with four Carry Ons and Ghost Story to his name. Best loved as Sergeant Alec Peters in ‘The Bill’. Acted with Leslie in Carry On Teacher.

MICHAEL MALONEY: Royal Shakespeare Company actor with appearances in Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet and ‘Bonekickers’. Acted with Leslie in Love on a Branch Line.

KATE O’MARA whose career has ranged from Hammer Horror to ‘The Two Ronnies’. She has starred in Dynasty, Triangle and as the Rani in Doctor Who and was directed by Leslie in the stage version of The Avengers.

JACKI PIPER: Popular farce and pantomime leading lady and star of four Carry On films. Acted with Leslie in Doctor in Trouble.

OWEN TEALE: Tony Award Winner whose television work has included Doctor Who, Torchwood and Ballykissangel. Acted with Leslie in The Last Detective: ‘The Dead Peasants Society’.

And, of course, Robert – who wrote the Doctor Who plays: ‘Medicinal Purposes’ and ‘Assassin in the Limelight’ for Leslie – will also be in attendance.

For further information and to book tickets for this exciting salute to Leslie’s 70+ year career please call Heritage Foundation Chairman David Graham: 01494714388.

A reminder that Robert’s good friend, Valerie Leon, is presenting her one-woman show: ‘Valerie’s Carry On’, on Thursday 19th March. The illustrated celebration of her life and work will feature clips and memories of the James Bond series, the Carry Ons, the Pink Panther, Hammer horror and so much more. It’s at the Maltings Arts Theatre, St. Albans, Hertfordshire at 8pm (box office: 01727844222). Tickets cost £10 (£8 for concessions) and there are regular train services from St. Pancras. It’s only twenty minutes away. Robert hopes to attend. Valerie will be performing the show again on Saturday 21st at the Relais Chateaux Hotel & Country Club, Gravetye Manor, East Grinstead. This will start with coffee at 10am with a three-course meal with wine following the presentation. Please call 01342810567 for further details or visit www.valerieleon.com for regular up-dates.

Robert wishes everyone a very happy Red Nose Day for tomorrow. He’ll be wearing his nose with pride…the Charles Hawtrey version! B.B.C.’s bi-annual tele-thon promises some great highlights from Doctor Who-geared fun with David Tennant, Elisabeth Sladen and Ronnie Corbett to the Saturdays doing their thing for charity. Just remember: do something funny for money!

Robert makes the trip in to town for the Heritage Foundation plaque unveiling to drumming icon Keith Moon. It was erected on the wall of the site of the old Marquee Club at 90 Wardour Street where the Who played many times during the 1960s. Lead singer Roger Daltry and Keith’s mum, Kit, did the honours on the string pulling. An impressive turn-out of mods and their scooters set the seal on a wonderful day of music and memories that continued over luncheon at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane.

To the O2 for the much-anticipated Tina Turner concert. A blast: all killer and no filler. And, at the age of 69, she was still strutting herself as powerfully as ever.