There are some things I didn't think I'd get to see, Anthony Stewart Head and Richard O'Brien sharing stage, was one of them. But still, as respectively, the classical Captain Hook and sinister Child Catcher, there they were.

Head's seriousness in a panto role was great, it was like watching a Shakespeare piece for quality. O'Brien's Child Catcher was the great kind of sickening that one would expect on stage, with oozing pustulent movement and the creepiness that makes O'Brien's characterisations astounding.

I know it was for Her Maj's 80th, but given the day, I'll take it as fate's present to me (I'm greedy like that).

It was great, plus all the other celebs doing fantasy literature roles was fun. Jonathan Ross as the Fat Controller; Bradley Walsh as Burglar Bill; Jerry Hall as Queen Of The Pirates; Patsy Kensit as the Grand High Witch from The Witches; June Brown and Pam St Clement as Aunts Spiker and Sponge from James and the Giant Peach; Amanda Redman as Cruella De Vil, with Nicholas Lyndhurst as her Chauffeur; Joe Pasquale as White Rabbit; Dani Harmer, Darragh Mortell and Montanna Thompson as Tracey Beaker and friends; Kelly Osbourne as Wendy from Peter Pan (on stage with Head); Sanjeev Bhaskar as Robin Hood; Martin Clunes as PC Plod; and, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson and Matthew Lewis as their Hogwarts students.

They also included Bernard Cribbins, Alan Titchmarsh, Meera Syal and Ronnie Corbett.

They conveyed a great message too, where would books be without the baddies. Without Cruella De Vil, it would have just been My what a lot of dalmations.