TELEVISION presenter Nicholas Parsons is just one of the highlights going on during the final week of Worcester Festival.

The veteran of television for over 40 years stars in Nicholas Parsons - A Laugh A Minute at the Swan Theatre on August 27 (7.30pm start) and talks about his early life as a engineering apprentice in Clydesdale, before entertaining the crowd with anecdotes about his long career in showbiz.

The Festival Players tackle one of William Shakespeare's most difficult plays, Hamlet, at the Swan Theatre on August 24, with showings at 2.30pm and 7.30pm and concert pianist Phillip Dyson will fill Huntingdon Hall with boogie-woogie, ragtime and jazz from the likes of Fats Waller, George Gershwin and many more on August 25 (8pm start).

England take on Holland in a harpsicord recital at St Swithin's Church on August 26, while the New Rope String Band combine old-time up beat music with a celtic edge with clowning about at Huntingdon Hall on August 26. Lovers of popular opera should look no further than A Feast of Gilbert and Sullivan at Huntingdon Hall on August 28 and tribute act Complete Madness will bring the spirit of Suggs and the crazy gang to the Swan Theatre on August 28.

For more details of everything happening in the Worcester Festival go to www.worcesterfestival.co.uk, or call 01905 611427.