THE multi-talented Lenny Henry was in Wimborne on Saturday night.

In fact he seems to have been picking up new talents all his life, including starting piano lessons when he was forty and developing a whole new career in classical theatre when approaching his fifties.

But from would-be teenage pop idol to critically-acclaimed Shakespearean actor via his best-known occupation of stand-up comedian, music has always been a vital ingredient in Lenny Henry’s life.

And four decades of music has provided all the hooks he needs on which to hang his hectic, almost hyperactive one-man comedy show.

No warm-up act, just two hours of the man himself, singing, playing piano, but mostly just joshing the audience.

And who could forget his take-off of a Chinese Elvis impersonator, or his historical (or should that be hysterical) review of our dance floor squirmings and contortions of the last forty years?

If you don’t want to part of his act, don’t sit in the front row. But with a capacity audience, spare seats would have been hard to find anyway, and Lenny Henry bowed out of Wimborne to a standing ovation.