| When: | Fri 08-Nov-2024 @ 18:45 |
| Where: | Village Hall, Child Okeford 3 The Hollow Child Okeford Dorset DT11 8EX |
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| Event Website: | https://www.childokeford.org/events/my-tutu-went-awol-to-iraq-and-back-in-a-doily-frock/ |
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Sadly, this event has been cancelled due to a family bereavement.
Tickets will be reimbursed. Please visit the listing on Child Okeford’s event page for details.
An evening of entertainment with lestyn Edwards
Friday 8th November
Doors open 6.45pm for 7.30pm
Child Okeford Village Hall
Bar and Raffle
Tickets £15 (Available from Child Okeford Village Shop – on sale from 1st October)
This is a Child Okeford WI fundraising event with proceeds going to
Friends of North Dorset Women’s Refuge. lestyn Edwards is an Olivier Award
winning Guildhall trained opera singer, international variety headliner and after
dinner speaker,
Edwards talks about being the Combined Services Entertainment ‘ experiment’,
sent out to entertain British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan during the conflicts
Wearing what 42 Commando nicknamed ‘ a frock of many doilies’…as heard of
BBC Radio 4’s Midweek, Loose Ends and Saturday Live.
‘Achingly funny’ – Daily Mail
‘A rare and perfect synthesis of art and larkiness’ – The Times
‘Spreads a bow-wave of happiness’ – Dame Joanna Lumley
Event Code: [CHILD]