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Ep. 532 - Doug Naylor
Doug Naylor is a British Emmy-award-winning television writer, best known as the co-creator of the iconic sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf for which he wrote or co-wrote all 74 episodes. He is also a Sunday Times bestselling novelist and an award-winning TV director. He was one of the two Head Writers at Spitting Image during the series heyday and co-penned the number one single 'The Chicken Song', on which some bloke called Mike Fenton Stevens sang the lead vocal. He is also the author or co-author of three best-selling Red Dwarf novels. His latest novel, Sin Bin Island, is his first children’s novel. Sin Bin Island mixes the classic adventure ingredients of a foreboding orphanage, compelling characters and intriguing mystery, with magic, a spot of surrealism and a whole heap of funny. .
Doug Naylor is our guest in episode 532 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
Sin Bin Island can be ordered here - https://linktr.ee/DougNaylorRD .
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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .
Music by Pass The Peas Music .
Artwork by matthewboxall.com .
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