Young Once: A Life Less Heavy – Nigel Planer

in conversation with Nick Ahad

11 October, 2025 at 7:00 pm

YOUNG ONCE is the hilarious, heart-warming memoir of actor and comedian Nigel Planer, most famous for playing Neil the hippy in The Young Ones and a pillar of 80s alternative comedy as part of the Comic Strip Presents and Bad News. Join Nigel as he looks back at the roles, friendships and rivalries, triumphs and comic disasters (from giant éclairs to exploding ovens) that have taken him to where he is now, all wrapped up in the moving and funny story of his on-off relationship with his wife Roberta.

Nick Ahad is a writer, broadcaster and presenter.