Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Ian Lavender is a household name, there isn’t surely a person alive in the country who hasn’t seen his performance as the young scarf wearing Home Guard soldier in Dad’s Army and at some point not identified with affable, cheeky and sentimental Private Frank Pike.

Don’t Tell Him Pike: Part Two. More Tales From The Not So Stupid Boy is one of those moments during the Edinburgh Festival in which time slips by with the glorious realisation that you have spent an hour with a genuinely much loved British actor and yet whose charm and easy going style as he holds conversation with Steven McNicoll is to be admired and seen as thoughtful and homely.