Magic is the Cheese: Doug Naylor and the Clairvoyant Car Key Finder
We Can Be Weirdos
Global
4.9 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Doug Naylor is an Emmy award winning script-writer, novelist and director.He co-created the long running hugely successful sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf, has written or co-written every episode across thirteen series and has directed over twenty episodes. Doug also co-founded Grant Naylor Productions in 1991 which made series IV to X of Red Dwarf. Doug has also written three best selling novels, and a few non-best selling ones too. He co-wrote a number one single which shall remain nameless, but has the words Song and Chicken in the title. Doug also co-created the Carlton TV series The 10 Percenters, for which his script Table 11 won a British Comedy award. Formerly he was Head writer and Script editor on the original run of the hugely popular satirical puppet show Spitting Image and he has also written a number of award winning radio shows. His alma mater was Liverpool University where he claims he was thrown out, at the end of his second year, for drinking too slowly.
Upcoming Doug dates:
Monday 29th Sept - appearance at the Bath Children's Literature Festival.
Thursday 9th October - at Liverpool Waterstones in conversation with the UK Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce.
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| 0:32.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | Warning. The following podcast contains strong language, bizarre theories, unexplained. Global Player original podcast. Warning! |
| 0:38.0 | The following podcast contains strong language, bizarre theories, |
| 0:41.4 | unexplainable experiences, |
| 0:42.9 | and the unfortunate loss of the lucky red underpants. |
| 0:46.0 | It may not be suitable for younger weirdos. |
| 0:49.8 | I saw this apparition in front of me, |
| 0:53.6 | and it was moving slightly, and the room went absolutely ice-cold. |
| 0:58.0 | Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, welcome to another episode of We Can Be Weirdos. My name is Dan Shriver. I am coming to you today from my home in Mystic |
| 1:29.4 | Marks and welcome to the show that believes that everyone, no matter how rational they think they are, |
| 1:35.0 | most likely harbors just a tiny bit of bad shit in them and that that is no bad thing. |
| 1:42.1 | My job in this show is to stir up the memories of all their weird beliefs, |
| 1:45.6 | their odd theories, their impossible experiences, get them to tell it to us. And on today's show, |
| 1:50.7 | I am extremely excited because I have one of the great living UK comedy writers on. He's |
| 1:56.1 | a personal hero of mine. It is the fantastic Doug Nailer. So, Doug Naler, if you're not familiar with him, |
| 2:03.8 | along with his comedy writing partner, Rob Grant, created, in my opinion, one of the greatest |
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