Bolton Bullfrog Comes To Thame (Contributed)

ON stage in concert at the Players Theatre in Thame at on Sunday, November 12, is Bernard Wrigley (“The Bolton Bullfrog”).
He is no stranger to the area, having visited the Thame/Long Crendon area many times in the past.

Bernard is known as an actor as well as a singer and storyteller. Some will remember him from Emmerdale a few years ago, when he played Barry Clegg ? the hapless rocket builder whose wife Lisa left him for Zak Dingle.
Over the years he has played no less than seven different characters in Coronation Street. He was also in three episodes of Dinner Ladies, where he complained about the food, danced and sang, and played the concertina. Recently he played the part of Dodgy Eric in Phoenix Nights, where he sold a mechanical bucking bronco to the club (with disastrous results) and in the second series insisted that Brian Potter hire a bouncy castle with a fifteen feet phallic extension – “Sammy The Snake”.

Recently, BBC Radio 2 listeners could hear Bernard guesting on the Mark Radcliffe show four times. Just released is his new book, “Shorts For All Occasions”, being a collection of daft, one verse poems.

On the 12th at the Players Theatre, he’ll be performing his unique blend of songs, stories, monologues and guitar playing, culled from almost 40 years of singing in the folk music world.

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