A star of Netflix show The Crown and ITV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office is to appear at the Sax Fest arts festival.

Alex Jennings is known for his roles in The Crown and ITV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office. 

In the hit Netflix show he played Edward VIII, the Duke of Windsor, in the first two seasons. 

Mr Jennings will be part of the cast at SHAKE Sax Fest on Saturday, June 8 in a rehearsed reading of The Horse in The Furrow by George Ewart Evans. 

He will be joined by local voice coach Charlie Haylock, Barbra Ashfield and three teenage boys from Thomas Mills, Alde Valley Academy and Woodbridge school. 

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The author of the book, Mr Evans, lived five miles from Saxmundham in the village of Blaxhall. 

He wrote the book as an account of the horses on the farms of East Suffolk and the horsemen who tended them.

The reading will take place at midday at the Word Space at St John's Church in Saxmundham. 

Entry to the reading is free of charge.