SOME of Bolton's best known faces have a few "choice words" for a festival audience tomorrow night.

In fact, in addition to words, there will be music and rhyme.

Celebrity Choice will feature prominent people from the town picking out their favourite song, poem or prose.

Bolton Festival organisers have invited the choices from famous names including Sir Ian McKellan, Sam Allardyce, Geoffrey Moorhouse and Fred Dibnah.

The evening will be compered by Jean Hansen and will be performed at St Andrew's and St George's Church, St George's Road, from 7.30pm.

Bolton Wanderers' manager, Sam Allardyce, has chosen We Are The Champions, while Fred Dibnah's choice is Don't Cry For Me Argentina.

Journalist, novelist and actor Geoffrey Moorhouse will read his own choice from Dylan Thomas.

Sir Ian McKellan, who began his acting career as a schoolboy in Bolton, has chosen a piece by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Others approached for their favourite pieces are Mark Sanders, alias Marlon in Emmerdale; Robert Aston, chairman of the Bolton Festival Symphony Orchestra, who has selected Thank You For The Music; Judge Michael Lever with Why I'd Rather Be A Judge Than A Miner written by Peter Cooke; Cllr Bob Howarth, leader of the council, and Doreen Crowther, the BEN's former art critic.

Leading Bolton actors will perform the pieces, with songs sung by Pamela Heywood Connor and Joseph Connor.

Elizabeth Tatman, chairman of the Bolton Festival, said: "We wrote to many well known Bolton personalities and have received an enthusiastic response from everyone.

"The result is a rich and diverse programme that will appeal to all and provide an evening full of unexpected choices and some surprises."

Tickets, £7, are from the Albert Halls Ticket Centre on 01204 334400.