Ep. 333 - Laurence Rickard
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
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 .
Follow Laurence Rickard on Twitter & Instagram: @Lazbotron .
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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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| 1:09.4 | Hello and welcome to My Time Capsule. |
| 1:19.9 | My name's Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is the podcast where people tell me the five things from their life that they wish they had in a time capsule. They can pick four things that they cherish, but they also have to |
| 1:32.6 | pick one thing that they wish they could forget, something they want to bury in the ground and never |
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