BBC commentator, Steve Parrish is famous in the world of motorsport for his practical jokes and enormous personality and he will be joining audiences across the UK in early 2014, stopping at the Bacon Theatre in Cheltenham on February 28, for an informal evening of anecdotes, together with his daughter Frankie Parrish.

Throughout his extraordinary life, full of scrapes, near misses and funnies, Steve has ridden Barry Sheene’s bike, qualified for the 500cc World Championship, filled rooms of sports personalities with live frogs and jumped hire cars from second floor car parks onto the beach in Daytona. And so the list goes on.

Steve Parrish raced at the highest level of motorcycle racing, becoming British Champion in 1976 and fifth in the 1977 500cc World Championship, as team mate to that year’s champion Barry Sheene. Barry who met Steve in 1975 is quoted as saying, “If he was to set up his bike as well as his victims and had put as much effort into the bike as he did the intricate pranks he pulled on people he would certainly have been a World Champion.”

Steve then dabbled with sports car racing before moving to truck racing “because it was less painful than riding bikes” where he won five European Truck Racing titles for Mercedes Benz.

Steve is currently the BBC commentator for Moto GP and has been commentating since 1988, but he is equally famous in the world of motorsport for his pranks, and this is the real reason for this show. Steve flies his own four-seat aircraft, plays golf badly, shoots clays, hosts track days and even has an entry in the Guinness Book of Records, he also attends after dinner events as a guest speaker; all of which offer more opportunities and more victims.

Steve’s daughter Frankie, who grew up with her father’s antics, will join him on stage to share a completely different, colourful, humorous and, at times, daring portrayal of this man’s career. Join them for a fantastically funny evening of true stories at the Bacon Theatre, plus one or two classic prank ideas to boot.

Suitable for ages fourteen years and over. For more information and to book tickets visit www.bacontheatre.co.uk or call the Bacon Theatre on 01242 258002