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Craig Charles

July 2024

  • Craig Charles wearing a black suit and tie, glasses and a black scarf with white spots, against a pink background

    The Q&A
    Craig Charles: ‘I have kicked all sorts of mood-altering substances. The only vice I’ve not been able to kick is smoking’

    The actor and DJ on vodka kisses, giving up drugs, and why it’s not good to pretend you own a Rolls-Royce

November 2021

  • Craig Charles: ‘I’ve got a peculiarly good memory for words.’

    Honest playlist
    ‘My karaoke go-to? Always on My Mind by Willie Nelson’: Craig Charles’s honest playlist

  • Moneybags with Craig Charles

    The watcher
    Moneybags: with tense trivia and total chaos, Craig Charles is the new king of TV quizzing

May 2021

  • Craig Charles

    Watched with mother
    Craig Charles: ‘I haven’t grown up much since I was five’

    The Red Dwarf star and BBC Radio 6 Music presenter on his love of zany kids’ show The Banana Splits – and why he never dreamed he would work in TV

November 2020

  • Craig Charles: ‘Like most young working-class men I handled success badly. Everything just came so fast.’

    Craig Charles: 'This is my midlife crisis – I should have just bought a Porsche!'

    The Red Dwarf star and radio DJ had the pandemic blues – so he decided to row his way out of them. He talks about the reality show Don’t Rock the Boat and his earlier highs and lows, from £200,000 cheques to tabloid exposés

October 2020

  • ‘I definitely didn’t set out to cause mass hysteria’ ... Ghostwatch, with Sarah Greene top right.

    How we made
    How we made: BBC mockumentary Ghostwatch

    ‘Our producer received a letter from a woman asking for compensation to buy new trousers for her husband, as he had soiled the ones he was wearing’

December 2017

  • criag charles in a shirt waistcoat and cravat smiling into the camera

    On my radar
    On my radar: Craig Charles’s cultural highlights

    The actor and DJ on Jean-Michel Basquiat, horror film Mother!, John Bishop’s chatshow, the magic of Altrincham Market and rising funksters the Allergies

January 2016

  • Withnail and I

    Readers suggest the 10 best …
    Readers suggest the 10 best fictional houseshares

    Last week we brought you our 10 best fictional houseshares. Here, we present your thoughts on the fabulous flatmates that should have made the list

September 2015

  • Craig Charles at home in Cheshire.

    Craig Charles: ‘I’m 51, I shouldn’t be getting disco injuries!’

    The death of Craig Charles’s brother made him rethink life. So next month he leaves Corrie, films a new series of Red Dwarf and a version of one of his poems – and then there’s his DJing

May 2015

  • Craig Charles: 'I was the naughty child. My elder brother Dean did everything right.'

    My family values
    Craig Charles: My family values

    The DJ, actor and poet talks about growing up in the only black family on a Liverpool estate, the death of his elder brother, and life in a house full of women

November 2014

  • Craig Charles

    Craig Charles quits I’m a Celebrity after brother’s death

  • Craig Charles

    Craig Charles leaves I’m a Celebrity after death of his brother

September 2014

  • Craig Charles

    Media Monkey
    Craig Charles funks up directions

    Media Monkey: The BBC Radio 6 presenter had an unfortunate slip of the tongue live on air

July 2014

  • Craig Charles

    Watch television with …
    Craig Charles’s favourite TV

    The DJ, presenter and actor seperates the funk from the junk

October 2012

  • BBC Radio 6 Music Presenters

    Celebrity squares
    Craig Charles: If I have to use a computer, my daughter shows me how

  • Red Dwarf's crew, Kryten, Lister and Rimmer return.

    TV and radio blog
    Red Dwarf X: have they still got the smegging goods?

September 2012

  • Red Dwarf X: watch an exclusive clip TWO - video

    Red Dwarf X: watch a clip from the new series

    Red Dwarf returns with a new six-part series featuring the original cast Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules and Robert Llewellyn, along with space battles, quantum entanglement and love triangles with snack dispensers. Can they defeat certain doom armed with only two forks and a pencil sharpener?

March 2009

  • TV and radio blog
    Red Dwarf comes back to Earth

    Daniel Martin: Nine years on, the Boys from the Dwarf are back … in Weatherfield. Here's an exclusive first look at the new series

  • Red Dwarf returns

    Watch an exclusive clip from one of the new special episodes of the much-loved sci-fi sitcom, which will premiere on Dave on 10 April

  • The G2 interview
    Decca Aitkenhead meets Craig Charles

    'Going from co-hosting Wogan to Wandsworth jail is a real culture shock. And it's taken a long time to get over'

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