Production: An Evening with Tony Benn
Dates:

30th May 2008	:	De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
2nd Jun 2008	:	Chelmsford Civic Theatre
4th Jun 2008	:	St Davids Hall Cardiff
19th Jun 2008	:	Broxbourne Civic Hall, Herts
3rd Sep 2008	:	Glasgow Citizens Theatre
17th Sep 2008	:	Millfield Theatre, Edmonton
18th Sep 2008	:	Corn Exchange, Newbury
30th Sep 2008	:	Festival Theatre, Malvern
14th Oct 2008	:	Buxton Opera House
22nd Oct 2008	:	Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton - 2.30pm
27th Oct 2008	:	Little Theatre, Leicester
8th Nov 2008	:	Wyvern Theatre, Swindon
12th Nov 2008	:	Marina Theatre Lowestoft
16th Nov 2008	:	Maddermarket Theatre, Norwich
20th Nov 2008	:	Hawth, Crawley
26th Nov 2008	:	Concert Hall, Reading
14th Jan 2009	:	Radlett Centre, Herts
3rd Feb 2009	:	Grand Theatre, Swansea
5th Mar 2009	:	The Broadway, Lewisham
9th Mar 2009	:	The Swan, High Wycombe

Celebs:
Tony Benn

Description: Tony Benn was born in London in 1925 and retired from the House of Commons in May 2001, after fifty years in Parliament, the longest serving Labour MP in the history of the party, which he joined in 1942.

He was a Cabinet minister in the Wilson and Callaghan governments from 1964 - 79, as Minister of Technology, Secretary of State for both Industry and Energy and President of the Council of European Energy ministers in 1977.

An elected member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour party from 1959 - 1994, he was Chairman of the Party in 1971/2.

His published Diaries in seven volumes cover the period from 1942-1990, and the next volume ' Free at Last' from 1990 - 2001 

The holder of seven honorary Doctorates from British and American universities, he has just been appointed as a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and is a regular broadcaster.

In 1949 he married Caroline Benn, educationalist and author of the biography of Keir Hardie who died in 2000 and they have four children and ten grandchildren.