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Radio 4. My My castaway this week is the comedian and actor Rob Bryden. A decade ago he was

enjoying a lucrative but unfulfilling career as a voiceover artist.

His ringing tones espousing the charms of pot noodle, toilet duck and tango, among many,

many other products.

But after what he admits was a rather wiggly road, it was first Marion and

Jeff and then Gavin and Stacy that made him a household name. It seems his speciality in a

cynical age, bringing to life characters without guile or cunning,

eternal optimists who think the best of everyone around them.

It may just be an act of course, and I don't know how near the truth we'll get today. I usually

don't give a whole lot away in interviews he says. I could go into all sorts of things but

I don't want the drama I avoid it. For someone who wants to avoid drama then, Rob Bryden, I am astonished to learn that the birth of your last child

started with you playing golf with Ronnie Corbett. In the end of the day you were

catching Tom in your arms in the sitting room.

Yeah that's true.

See he came nine days early.

It was my wife's first child, my fourth, and I assumed the first child he'd be late, so I was very, very

relaxed, you know, thinking, well, is no way he's going to be early, so I'd arranged this day and off I went and

Ronnie and I were on the golf course and Claire phoned up and she said she's very

sweet she said have you finished? And I said, well, more or less, yeah. And she said, I think it's happening.

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