The Book Club – All-New Fighting Years

The Book Club is a difficult show to review because a lot of it will be different each day. In fact I don't know if anyone else will ever get the hysterically funny reading from Torvill & Dean. This illustrated biography contains the wonderful statement that T & D spent their time in Dortmund “avoiding the people they know and those they don't know”.

You almost certainly will get the most frightening giant crab attack passage competition, judged by tap dancing. Also the ‘spot the worst name in a Mills and Boon romance’ judged by opera singing. Genial host Robin Ince almost certainly won't be able to resist the terrible drawings in the book about Netherland Dwarf rabbits.

I'm sure that Australia's worst interpretative dancer (see what a paper bag on the head can make you do) will be there, as will the even worse social essay writer. He may well have different essays; one of today's was on Martin Luther King who, if you remember, had a dream and told everyone about it – hence the title, 'The Boring Man at the Party'.

A lot of the fun comes from simply reading out blurbs from books picked up in Edinburgh charity shops. Or reading from them in an appropriate style to the audience-chosen music track. I hope that when you go you do get the lullaby guaranteed to scare the pants off any child.

This amiable show with readings, opera, tap dance, guests dropping in and, above all, host Robin Ince and his glorious tumble of tatty books is a real treat. I'm sure it's equally as funny each day, no matter how different it is.