Multi award-winner, Radio 4 favourite, Perrier-nominated adventurer, author and extreme expeditionary comedian Tim FitzHigham is touring the UK in 2016 with The Gambler, his show fuelled by his obsession with playing the odds - taking on the weirdest wagers in human history.  

FitzHigham's fascination with all things relating to the game of chance was first chronicled in 2011 with his Edinburgh Festival Fringe show of the same name. Having gone on to write and star in two BBC Radio 4 series on the back of this initial success, he has established himself as a man who is infamous for doing things that no one else would dare do… or that perhaps wouldn’t occur to anyone else to do…

In preparation for this show, Tim has been undertaking all kinds of weird and wonderful challenges including walking blindfolded through four lanes of traffic, trying to shut the West Country and cooking… under 10 feet of water… using out of date explosives… what possibly could go right?

FitzHigham's unswerving devotion to bad ideas and the shows they create has seen him break bones, re-mortgage his house, contract a flesh eating microbe, collapse of dehydration, be blinded in one eye for six months, spend several nights with the Leith Police, survive concussion and be hospitalised with a bone-marrow eating infection amongst a catalogue of other injuries and stunning disasters. 

Previous Edinburgh shows saw him get locked in a Da Vinci Coded trap; paddle paper boats down the Thames; ride hollowed out logs up the Amazon; run deserts in suits of armor; cross the Channel in a bath tub; invent endurance Morris Dancing; sprint against race horses and take inflatables down Olympic black skiing runs; vigorously test the Karma Sutra; and climb up the outside of some of the world’s tallest buildings 

His Radio 4 hit The Gambler completed its second series in 2015 and his CBBC programme Super Human Challenge is now on BBC Worldwide. Tim has scrabbled in the mud on Time Team, regularly MCs Jongleurs and played himself in a film directed by Clint Eastwood.

Dates below. 

Feb 5th
Poole, Lighthouse

Feb 11th
Bath, Rondo

Feb 13th
Maidenhead, Norden Farm

Feb 16th
Greenwich, Playhouse

Feb 18th
Salford, The Lowry

Feb 19th
Cockermouth, Kirkgate Centre

Feb 20th
Leicester, Firebug

Mar 3rd
Deal, The Astor

Mar 5th
Horsham, The Capitol

Mar 10th
Newbury, Arlington Arms

Mar 11th
Colchester, The Mercury Studio

Mar 24th
Selby, Town Hall

Apr 1st
Norwich, Playhouse

Apr 9th
Halifax, Square Chapel

Apr 21st
St Andrews, Byre Theatre

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