BOND girls coming to Darwen? Unlikely though it may sound, that's just what's happening next Saturday when leggy star of The Spy Who Loved Me, Caroline Munro, arrives at the Library Theatre to promote her new audio CD, Dr Who: Omega.

Caroline will be signing autographs and posing for pictures during her rare public appearance in the North.

Elsewhere, girls are ruling the roost in the theatre's autumn line-up.

Tonight the Library Players perform an all-female version of The Odd Couple.

This is followed, next Wednesday, by the award-winning musical Girls' Night, which charts the story of five female friends who re-live the past on a wild night out at a karaoke club.

Later in the month, an Indian woman's life receives a comic close-up in Pooja, while a night of African-Caribbean poetry awaits audiences in Sista Talk, on October 9.

The theatre also has an eyecatching music line-up, with bands including China Crisis, who play on September 13, and Dead Men Walking, who arrive on October 3.

Folk music fans will be delighted with the appearance of ex-Houghton Weaver Norman Prince, on October 4, and Trouble at Mill, on November 22.

Meanwhile, those with a taste for the unusual will love The Liverpool Connection, a unique 42-piece band which plays a fusion of jazz and world music.

The unusual also features in the rest of the theatre's drama programme, with Double Vision, on October 2 and the bone-chilling Macabre on October 16, followed by The Reduced Shakespeare Company's ambitious and hilarious look at All The Great Books.