AFTER his triumphant spring tour, Alan Davies returns with more Little Victories this autumn. One of those occasions will be at Leeds Town Hall on October 30, his nearest date to York.

Explaining the show's title, the 48-year-old Essex comedian and actor says: "It comes from a routine about me trying to get my dad to eat blackcurrant jam. He has a limited palate. He also thinks that Indian food would make him ill. It would drive us mad as children; it’s almost pathological.

"He has just decided that he doesn’t like certain things. We had plenty of jam at home – strawberry, raspberry, apricot. It was jam a-go-go, but he would refuse to eat jam made of blackcurrant, the finest of all the currants. So we set him a trap; that's one of the routines in the show. It’s a classic Little Victory.”

Davies, star of such television shows as Jonathan Creek, QI, The Brief and Whites, returned to the comedy tour circuit in 2012 after more than a decade's hiatus with Life Is Pain, whose itinerary was extended twice to run to 18 months, culminating in a DVD filmed at London's Apollo Hammersmith.

Tickets for October 30 are on sale on 0113 224 3801 or at leedstownhall.co.uk