{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/646204ca41a73600110c86d5/691f93dd087c4173ab335877?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Henry Naylor: From Bora Bora to the Frontlines of Political Theatre","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/646204ca41a73600110c86d5/1776873453382-ec22bee1-fa03-4482-914a-182295f68da2.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Henry Naylor spent years travelling the world making Barclaycard ads with Rowan Atkinson, gave Ben Miller his first comedy gig, wrote the first ever Tony Blair sketch on British television, and is now taking a play about Elton John's battle with the Sun newspaper to New York. And he can do a very good Scooby Doo.</p><p>Henry Naylor is a playwright, writer and comedian whose credits include Spitting Image, Dead Ringers, the 3D animated sketch show Head Cases, and multiple Fringe First-winning plays. His play Monstering The Rocketman — about Elton John and Britain's largest ever libel settlement — sold out Edinburgh, has a London run and is heading to New York.</p><ul><li>How 17 Barclaycard commercials took him to Bora Bora, Luxor, Sardinia and Elba — and what it was like to watch Rowan Atkinson go from recognisable to A-lister in real time</li><li>How he gave Ben Miller his first comedy gig at university — and how he felt when Ben's agent rang up about the Johnny English movie</li><li>Writing the first Tony Blair sketch for Spitting Image when nobody knew anything about him</li><li>Why the Jeffrey Archer puppet was deliberately withheld</li><li>Head Cases: the 3D animated sketch show that had DreamWorks calling, but was cancelled when ITV nearly went bankrupt</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Connect with Henry here:</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/naylor.henry/?hl=en-gb\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/henry.naylor.75/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>Originally released under the podcast's former name: Television Times.</p><p>Find us on social media — links on the About page.</p>","author_name":"Steve Otis Gunn"}