"The Times" calls it "nasty, naughty fun" and indeed I know that this year's UK pantomime presentation of Roald Dahl's "George's Marvellous Medicine" on Monday 20th December is going to be a brilliant fun-filled night.

Billed as fizztickling fun and wizzpopping magic, the panto sees our incredibly generous friends at the Birmingham Stage Company putting on another Christmas panto for Animals Asia, where all proceeds will go to our beautiful bears in China and Vietnam.

Our wonderful UK Patron, Virginia McKenna OBE, and lovely BBC "Flog It" presenter Paul Martin will be joining me and the Animals Asia team in celebrating the festive season with a bang.

Please, if you're reading this in the UK, do book your tickets and plan an evening (or two) in London to support the bears, dogs and cats, and our vital work helping them all. I can't wait to see you there!

(Tickets cost £23 and are available from UCL Bloomsbury Theatre box office on 0207 388 8822 or online at www.thebloomsbury.com/georgemoonbeargala