Hello everyone and I am glad you have managed to hang onto the wreckage for another week like myself. I must thank the people who have been kind enough to approach me in the street and say they enjoyed last week's column in which I had a go at 'celebrities' who try to hide their ages. It obviously rang a bell.

Now, fellow Memory Lane travellers I must appeal to you. Okay let's pass over the obvious gag and I need your help, whether you have been reading my column for the past few months or been with me from the start 39 years ago when I began writing these articles at the age of two.

Elstree Studios , as part of their 90th anniversary celebrations, want to acknowledge my efforts over time and in particular chairing the campaign that saved the Studio 20 years ago against almost certain development for retail and housing. I would have settled for a lifetime supply of vodka but they insisted I must still sing for my supper.

Thus on the evening of Monday December 5 you are all invited to join us at Elstree Studios as the Chairman Morris Bright chats on stage with me about the 56 years, literally man and boy, I have of visiting film sets, mixing with and interviewing stars and other film and television related memories.

Now I know your first thought is how awful to listen to me name drop but it is a chance to have a pre-Christmas drink in the studio's licensed bar, see their function room and there is talk of a free glass of mulled wine.

I have not given a public talk for a long time and have no desire to begin again so think of this as a one off opportunity to say hello and perhaps enjoy a drink with a friend.

I promise that I will speak honestly about stars that I have met over the decades and I do need to get an audience in double figures so it is those magical words free of charge! However, for security reasons, the studio requires people obtain their tickets in advance which hopefully should be easy. Just phone Joely Hertz at the Studio on 0208 324 2221 or contact them via email which you will find on their website.

It will not just be my personal memories but I will share tales told to me by old stars such as Trevor Howard and what he really thought about Frank Sinatra and what Sterling Hayden recalled about working with Joan Crawford. There will be stories of what Hitchcock got up to at Elstree, how I ended up literally walking into Tom Cruise and put up with Christopher Lee and Oliver Reed. Then there was Robbie Williams sending me up on the set of Top Of The Pops and how I declined to rub Frankie Howerd's aching thigh, not to mention Bob Todd dropping his trousers in front of Arthur Askey and myself.

Then there was an occasion when I found myself sitting on the set of Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade discussing the campaign to save the Studio with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg and how I got to drive future multi-Oscar winner and millionaire Peter Jackson to and from Shenley in my old Mini, not to mention why Harrison Ford gave up his chair for me on a freezing night on the backlot.

Okay, it sounds boring but a free evening out at Elstree Studios means a bit of fun and if not you can still come but just sit back and think of England. As the kids say today, be there or be square.