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Songwriter, performer and café owner Jane Bom Bane invited us into her café, Bom-Banes, a place where dinner comes with not just a smile but a song. Jane treats us to a rendition of her love-letter to Brighton ‘Bright-town Train, accompanied by Kate Daisy Grant, Eliza Skelton and Freyer Bowes and Nick Pynn on violin.

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David Bramwell leads us on a pyschogeograpical walk around the backstreets of Brighton, unearthing treasures in streets that look at first unprepossessing. David explains how a strange inheritance first brought him to Brighton and to its Spiritual Church in an extract from his forthcoming book ‘The Haunted Moustache’.

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Gilli Bloodaxe brings the sea air to The Verb with his poem ‘Ben Triloquist’, the tale of a ventriloquist down on his luck on a cruise ship. Gilli is accompanied by Foz on musical saw and theremin. Gottle of Gear anyone?<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

The best-selling crime writer Peter James has just published ‘Love You Dead’, the twelfth novel in the Roy Grace series, set in the darker side of Brighton. Peter explains that heÌýwas inspired toÌýbecome a writer after reading Graham Greene’s classic ‘Brighton Rock’, and deciding that he wanted to try and write a book even ‘a tenth as good’

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Jake Rodrigues performs as the ‘Have A Banana’ One Man Band. Undefeated by the rain, Jake takes Ian out to entertain the crowds on the streets of Brighton. Jake explains how the One Man Band tradition took off during the Industrial Revolution – and even lets Ian have a go on his Zob stick!

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