Following a sell out run at last year’s Edinburgh Festival, stand-up and ventriloquist Nina Conti brings her new show Talk to the Hand to the Menier Chocolate Factory.

Familiar favourite, the incorrigible Monk, is joined by a host of new characters, including poetry penning Owl, mischievous Granny and vodka-swilling Lydia.

Nina performs clairvoyant tricks pushing at ventriloquism’s boundaries, taking the artform to a whole new place. This time the puppets are alive in the room, not confined to a scripted act.