FOR Burning Duck's extra gig this month, promoter Al Greaves welcomes the return of one his favourite performers from last year, Bec Hill, plus fellow Australian storyteller Sarah Bennetto on Wednesday at 8pm.

Hill, from Adelaide, will be presenting her exuberant 2015 Edinburgh Fringe show, Caught On Tape, in which she asks: "“What do you regret?". "I have only one life regret and it haunts me but now it’s time to change that," she says.

"Bec’s hour-long show is a mix of stand-up, paper puppetry and regret," says Greaves, who goes on to enthuse about Melbourne raconteur Bennetto, "I managed to catch some of Sarah’s set once as part of a mixed bill show at Edinburgh Fringe and was very impressed, so I’m really looking forward to watching her do a longer set on Wednesday.”

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Looking ahead, Greaves has booked Alfie Moore for a “work in progress” show on Monday, March 21, when the former police sergeant turned stand-up star of BBC Radio 4's It's A Fair Cop recounts anecdotes from his 18 years on the beat. The support act that night will be Danny Deegan.

"This is a unique opportunity to see both these acts performing extended sets and trying out new material for their forthcoming festival shows," says Greaves.

Last month's show met with the approval of headline act Silky, who so enjoyed performing there that he said the intimate Burning Duck is "possibly the most flammable room on the circuit”.

Tickets for all Burning Duck shows are on sale at burningduckcomedy.com/ and at Bison Coffee House, in Heslington Road, and The Inkwell, in Gillygate, as well as on the door from 7.45pm.