John Hegley: New & Selected Potatoes

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John Hegley: New & Selected Potatoes

14th June 2026

John will perform poems and songs from across his back-catalogue, alongside new pieces, focussing on his educational work and storytelling. Mandolin accompaniment is now expanded to include a Portuguese cavaquinho and a train whistle from Didcot Railway Centre. In places the audience will be invited to participate, emotionally.

The Observer commented ‘Hegley is to potatoes what Wordsworth has been to daffodils’ – although there is more about Keats than Wordsworth in the show. There is much about family and foolhardiness in an evening designed for adults, but not unsuitable for the odd nine-year-old.