ARE you Dave Gorman? If so comedian Dave Gorman would be interested in hearing from you ahead of his October 7 performance at Oak House, the Pocklington Civic Arts Centre. If not, he would still like to tell you about his name and namesakes that night at 8pm.

For his new show - now running on the Edinburgh Fringe with a five-star rating in the Guardian - Gorman has been trying to find 100 Dave Gormans.

This storytelling comic with mutton-chop sideburns and the inquisitive mind of an investigative journalist is the double BAFTA award-winning co-writer of BBC 1's The Mrs Merton Show.

You may recall his visit to the 1998 Harrogate International Festival Fringe with Reasons To Be Cheerful, his dissection of every line, rhyme and reason behind Ian Dury's loquacious 1979 hit.

Gorman, by the way, can be contacted by Dave Gormans at dave.gorman@virgin.net - and according to the August 16 entry on his Edinburgh 2000 Diary website, he has "just found out about a new Dave Gorman in Hull, which is very exciting".

Not only are the Gormans invading Pocklington this autumn. The newly-available brochure for September to November promises theatre, cinema, a Tom Jones clone, folk, a treasure hunt and David Battie, from the Antiques Roadshow.

The musical fare begins on September 3 with the Sunday afternoon visit of the York Guitar Quartet, whose 3pm programme comprises originals and arrangements of baroque and classical music and 20th century compositions.

The voice of Steeleye Span, Maddy Prior, believes she has found her perfect musical partners in Nick Holland and York multi-instrumentalist Troy Donockley. Together they will be performing contemporary material and selections from her Steeleye Span and solo catalogue on September 12 at 8pm.

the Oak House Acoustic night, on September 17 at 8pm in the Oak House Studio, features dialect songwriter Mary Newton, humorous singer, songwriter and guitarist David Allen and the Pattison family band, Still Waters.

Three's Company presents Beyond Broadway, a night of excerpts from Chicago, The Lion King, Les Miserables, Phantom Of The Opera and Cats, on September 29 at 8pm, and Syrinx visit on October 1 at 2.30pm for the second in the autumn season of Sunday afternoon classical concerts. York flautist Richard Ingamells and guitarist Mark Gaultier will be performing Spanish and Latin American works.

T J Slater is Tom Jones on October 18 at 8pm, when this Stars In Their Eyes winner takes a musical journey through the mighty Welshman's hits, from It's Not Unusual to Sex Bomb. By way of musical contrast, Driffield Light Opera performs operatic songs from the shows, with special focus on Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial By Jury, on October 20 at 7.30pm.

To celebrate both Guy Fawkes Night and Pocklington's Oliver Cromwell connection, the early music group Fairfax plays music of the Stuart period on November 5 at 2.30pm. Expect a "bewildering range of instruments", from harp to hurdy-gurdy, cittern to bagpipes.

The diva of English folk roots, June Tabor, visits Oak House on November 17 at 8pm to sing her shimmering, dark and sensual interpretations of the songs of Richard Thompson, George Gershwin, Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, Cole Porter, Ewan MacColl and the Velvet Underground.

Racing comes to Pocklington on September 8 at 7.30pm in the opening show of the theatre programme. Live Theatre recounts For The Crack, the story of the infamous Cartmel Racing Scam, in which a group of intrepid Irish punters waged war on their traditional adversaries: the English bookmakers.

Pocklington Dramatic Society's contribution to World Quake, the East Riding of Yorkshire Literature Festival, is a rehearsed reading of Uncle Vanya, Chekhov's love-triangle drama, on September 28 at 7.30pm.

The society then presents My Mother Said I Never Should, Charlotte Keatley's comical and truthful portrait of the lives and shared experiences of four women from different generations, from October 10 to 12 at 7.30pm.

Hull Truck Theatre gives its first ever public appearance in Pocklington when staging John Godber's Teechers on October 28 at 7.30pm. In his typically fast-moving classroom comedy, former drama teacher Godber takes a hard-hitting look at life in a comprehensive.

Sex And Chocolate is on the menu on November 30, served up by The MsFits at 8pm. In Rona Munro's new comedy about love, life, mobsters and Maltesers, Shirley Valentine meets The Girl From Uncle as Jan turns 50 and finds herself all alone. Her children have flown the nest, the rest of the office is off clubbing and it's a holiday weekend, so she makes a decision that will change her life forever: she goes off on an adventure.

In other events this autumn, the Friends of Oak House hold a treasure hunt around Pocklington on September 3 at 5pm; Andrew Grisewood gives a flower-arranging demonstration, in a fund-raiser for Oak House, on September 20 at 7.30pm; David Battie, part of the BBC's Antiques Roadshow team, gives a talk entitled My Unlikely Career on October 4 at 7.30pm, with proceeds going to Action Research.

Throughout the season, the arts centre will be showing films too. For Oak House tickets and brochures, ring 01759 301547.