At last! A sequel worth waiting 44 years for

DO MAKE a date to listen to Tennis Elbow, the new audio-play from the great 81-year-old Scottish writer John Byrne. It’s the follow-up to his 1977 Edinburgh Festival hit, Writer’s Cramp, which starred Bill Paterson and drew audiences including Billy Connolly and Sean Connery.

That play was about the life and adventures of delusional literary talent Francis Seneca McDade and his association with Glasgow’s Nitshill Writing Circle.

This is another shaggy-dog story, related by the women’s wing of the imaginary Busby Sketch

Club, paying homage to their mentor: self-styled artistic also-ran Pamela Crichton-Capers (played by Kirsty Stuart).

The pre-recorded comedy, which also features Sam West, Maureen Beattie and Louise Jameson, sketches Pamela’s bumpy ride through the 20th century, from convent school to dalliances at university, wartime internment, persistent penury, near fame as a painter, and back again to her roots in Thurso.

Tickets are available from pitlochry festival theatre.com or lyceum.org.uk; starting at £15.