Star signings and celebrity wits

Entertaining with Paul BurrelL Remember that naff guide Entertaining With Style that Paul Burrell published a few years back, purporting to help out with those all-important etiquette problems such as which glass to drink what out of and where to put a globe artichoke? Well here's another chance to meet the butler whose gravy train - sorry, boat - seems to have landed.

David Essex The songster who brought you 'Gonna Make You A Star' will be signing copies of his autobiography, A Charmed Life.

Talks

Material WorldsFilm history professor Sue Harper gives a lecture on costume and creativity in British cinema.

Art & architecture

City of London ChurchesJulian Litten talks about the churches that Christopher Wren reconstructed after the Great Fire of 1666.

Old Masters and Young Mistresses Laurence Bradbury gives a talk on this perennially popular subject. With slides.

Others

National Theatre's Quiz This is the 20th annual theatre quiz, a contest in which celeb contestants from two different productions, this time She Stoops To Conquer and Anything Goes, pit their wits against one another. Chaired by Emma Freud.