Ep. 333 - Laurence Rickard
Laurence Rickard is best known from BBC sitcom Ghosts where he plays the ghosts Robin the Caveman and Humphrey, the headless ghost. Laurence also co-created and co-writes Ghosts alongside his Horrible Histories group, which is the show they all met working on. He was a principle writer and star of children’s historical sketch show Horrible Histories, which won two National Comedy Awards, four successive BAFTAs and the Prix Jeunesse for the best children's show of the last 50 years. The same team also created the sitcom Yonderland which ran for three series on Sky 1 and the feature film Bill, a comic take on Shakespeare's missing years. Ghosts quickly became the most watched comedy on UK television and they even did a comic relief special featuring Kylie Minogue. The show has spawned an American cast version which is also a hit and a book, The Button House Archives, available now .
Laurence Rickard is guest number 333 on 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 .
The Ghosts’ book, The Button House Archives, is available here - https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ghosts-the-button-house-archives-9781526669933 .
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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .
Music by Pass The Peas Music .
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My Time Capsule
A podcast that asks guests, such as Stephen Fry, David Mitchell, Caroline Quentin, Ross Noble, Lee Mack, Arabella Weir & Rob Brydon, for five things which they’d like to put in a Time Capsule. They can choose anything from an item, to a memory, a film or even a country. Four of them are things they want to preserve but one has to be something they’re happy to bury and never have to think about again.
Hosted by Michael Fenton Stevens.
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