Ep. 532 - Doug Naylor
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
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 .
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| 0:45.1 | I would reckon it's like a crisp and a chip. |
| 0:47.9 | If they had a baby, do you know what I mean? |
| 0:49.3 | A chip and a crisp. |
| 0:53.3 | Combination. |
| 0:54.5 | It's got crisp ancestry, but it's a chip. |
| 0:58.2 | Like a hot chip crisp combo thingy? |
| 1:03.6 | Yeah? |
| 1:04.5 | Pure poetry that was. |
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| 1:12.8 | Hello and welcome to my time capsule. I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens and I hope you know what my time |
| 1:30.5 | caption is all about, but if you don't, it's the podcast where people tell me five things from their |
| 1:34.8 | life they wish they had in a time capsule, four things they cherish and one thing they'd like to |
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