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It will be one of the first major festivals of the summer – and for Fast Show star Charlie Higson it can’t come quickly enough.
The author and comedian, a regular at the Daily Mail Chalke Valley History Festival for many years, is among the speakers at the event which starts tomorrow.
He said: ‘It’s such a lovely place and such a lovely festival. I’ve been stuck at home wishing things were happening. It’s really exciting – it’ll feel like a return to the good old days.’
Author and comedian Charlie Higson has been a regular at the Daily Mail Chalke Valley History Festival for many years and is among the speakers at the event which starts tomorrow
Thanks to careful planning, the festival is going ahead despite last week’s delay to the lifting of lockdown restrictions.
Higson, 62, said at the beginning of the pandemic last year he thought, like many, he’d be ‘learning Russian and reading Proust’. But because of all the uncertainty he found it difficult to concentrate – so he decided to teach himself the list of English monarchs from William the Conqueror to now.
He said: ‘I learnt the rhyme “Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee, Harry, Dick, John, Harry three…” as a child, and I relearnt that. It was a useful distraction. I thought it’d be good to do a talk based around that, and narrowed it
