Broadcasting legend Danny Baker is to go on tour for the first time - and is fitting in two dates in the county.

Tickets are now on sale for his 35-date Cradle To The Stage tour in 2017.

A broadcaster and writer on TV and radio for more than 30 years, his bestselling autobiographies were adapted into the BBC series Cradle to Grave, and he is working on a third.

He also presents his BBC Radio 5 Live show on Saturday mornings which features music, sport, guests and plenty of wit.

Danny said of the tour: "The stage has always been my first love. Let me put that another way. I have never done anything like this before in my life. However, to travel from town to town addressing a fabulous gathering of like-minded chums each night seems to me exactly what Shakespeare would have done, had not the hefty rent at The Globe kept him in London.

"I own very few theatres anymore and so I am now totally free to charge about here and there wowing the folks with my anecdotal back catalogue, games involving sausages and impressive six octave range. No two nights of this extravaganza will be the same. This is less of a boast than admission that a) I am hopeless at learning scripts and b) I still have no idea what I am going to include."

The show will be at the Theatre Royal, Margate on Saturday, February 25 and the Hazlitt Theatre, Maidstone, on Saturday, March 15.

Tickets cost £20. To book visit ticketmaster.co.uk