BOOK AHEAD…

✢ Catch jazz legend Herbie Hancock at the Barbican on 17 November and again with the Los Angeles Philharmonic on 19 November; barbican.org.uk

✢ A Very Expensive Poison, a play based on Alexander Litvinenko, premieres at The Old Vic on 19 August. For discounted matinees for over-60s, see oldvictheatre.com/matinee-idols

✢ Celebrate the 25th anniversary of our favourite sitcom Friends at FriendsFest in Manchester, 2-18 August; Bristol, 23 August-1 September; and Milton Keynes, 6-15 September. See friendsfest.co.uk