Craig Charles
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Oct 31, 2026
PeterHOST
So obviously, I wasn't exactly catching this when it first aired, right? Even though technically, I'm sure I could have had the foresight at three years old to turn on the TV.
PeterHOST
at that time but um what is interesting about it though is watching it is i reckon like michael parkinson who's the main presenter in this is a long-standing british tv presenter uh sarah green's in this who i didn't know by name but i recognized her and she did a lot of kids tv stuff in the 90s and early 2000s uh craig charles uh is a presenter and actor who's in this as himself and most people probably know him from red dwarf if they know him from anything Oh, okay.
PeterHOST
Or possibly he did present the UK show Robot Wars for a long time.
PeterHOST
People recognize his voice from that, maybe.
17 MINS LATER
PeterHOST
So the premise of the movie, we've talked a lot about obviously the fact that it's presented like a TV show, but the actual thing that's happening is there's a house on a suburban area in London which is seemingly haunted.
PeterHOST
It's a mother and two daughters and they're letting the cameras in to document what's maybe going to happen during Halloween.
PeterHOST
You've got Craig Charles as a presenter outside the house doing like I don't know, community stuff where he's talking to neighbours and things like that.
PeterHOST
You've got Sarah Green, who's going to be the reporter inside the house talking to the mother and the kids, and she's got a cameraman and a sound guy who are trying to capture stuff and whatnot.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
And so basically he got the job off the back of reading over Sarah Green's shoulder.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
And then the fourth member of the cast was Craig Charles.
Tom CraineGUEST
It's a great cast.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
Craig Charles is another kind of person that is absolutely bizarre to be famous now.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
Craig Charles is still, he hosts a brilliant show on Six Music now.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
He's great.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
He's brilliant.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
So basically his role on Ghostwatch was a kind of in the street, vox-popping people, playing himself, basically, as in his words, a knobhead.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
So everyone gathers together to watch it at a wrap party at a sailing club in Chiswick.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
Baumgarten wanted a wrap party because she thought she didn't want Craig Charles and Michael Parkinson to be spotted on the street when they were meant to be live on air.
Tom CraineGUEST
Okay, interesting.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
After the show, Michael Parkinson got a call from his mum to ask what had happened to Pipes.
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Josh WiddicombeHOST
Interesting.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
She says, we couldn't have made it more obvious that it was a drama short of sticking arrows on the screen.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
Parkinson said the reaction showed the BBC at its corporate worst and Craig Charles went on holiday to Corfu saying it's fight or flight.
Tom CraineGUEST
A flight, yeah.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
Any ghosts that want to call in.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
And then you've got Craig Charles, who's a kind of, come to this actor, poet, comedian.
Josh WiddicombeHOST
And he's on the street in Northall interviewing locals, kind of vox popping them about the whole situation.
Tom CraineGUEST
So would that be pre or post Red Dwarf fame? Pre? This is during.
Frazer GregoryGUEST
So, so high tech at the time, but, you know, completely... you know, obsolete now.
Frazer GregoryGUEST
And to round it up, we've got Craig Charles, who's the interviewer, so he's in the, on the OB as well, so he's, you know, sort of running around interviewing, you know, the locals, the local residents, you know, while Sarah Green's in the house, he's outside, you know, doing that.
Frazer GregoryGUEST
And so, you know, it's essentially that, it's just, you know, film this house for an hour, see what happens, and You know, and then all hell breaks loose and somewhere along the line, someone should have told me it wasn't real.
DavidHOST
Yes.
DavidHOST
Now, this is all part of the wider controversy because for the younger listeners, if there are any, and those not... those who are living outside of the UK, Michael Parkinson, Sarah Green, Mike Smith, Craig Charles were all genuine television personalities.
DavidHOST
Craig Charles was an actor.
DavidHOST
Sarah Green was an actor, but they were ostensibly themselves.
Frazer GregoryGUEST
Yes.
Colin Jackson-BrownHOST
But that will become apparent as we fumble our way through it.
Colin Jackson-BrownHOST
So, yeah, this episode we are on the Red Dwarf adjacent side because we're discussing the BBC's infamous 1992 Halloween broadcast Ghostwatch, which Craig Charles was part of the cast for.
Colin Jackson-BrownHOST
I thought as it's a Halloween sort of ooky spooky episode, I thought it would be good to get the three of us talking about our general thoughts on ghosts and the paranormal and that kind of thing.
Colin Jackson-BrownHOST
So first of all, Jeff, you're a believer, aren't you, mate?
14 MINS LATER
Geoff OwenGUEST
they were well-respected BBC TV presenters.
Geoff OwenGUEST
And usually if they were involved in it, it was serious.
Geoff OwenGUEST
Craig Charles, obviously the whole reason about why we're doing it on Shipwrecked, comes in to add the comic relief over the course of the episode.
Geoff OwenGUEST
But even he is doing the serious interviews at times as well.
Ian MartinGUEST
think the zeitgeist it got a real bounce with series three and that's the point where it became you know they threw a little bit more money at it i think and suddenly it was more of a going concern and then suddenly what do you know there's a magazine as well it just kind of kicked into gear
Ryan BlakeGUEST
I think Craig Charles said the difference, the sort of difference in spirit was they got out of like the bomber jackets and into leather jackets because that's the shift in his wardrobe.
Ryan BlakeGUEST
And he said, that's when, you know, or as Star Trek fans would say, it's the Riker's beard moment, that kind of a thing.
DylanHOST
So,
Ryan BlakeGUEST
So yeah, if anyone else knows anything behind the scenes, please let me know because I've always wanted to fathom the logic behind that and I never have been able to.
Ian MartinGUEST
I think it's a limitation of the fact if you're adapting a 30-minute BBC sitcom script, it's going to be rather dialogue heavy.
Ian MartinGUEST
So you are limited essentially to just drawing Craig Charles' face and then Chris Barry's face and then Craig Charles' face.
Ian MartinGUEST
Because every box is just speech and speech and speech and that's...
Dave MoorHOST
It was all made up, but there were several elements to it, namely the possession of small children, poltergeists, Yeah, jump scares, you know, the ghost in the cupboard under the stairs kind of scenario, the seeing, you know, strange men or shadows of people in the background, etc.
Dave MoorHOST
When Craig Charles at one point jumps out of a cupboard in a ghost mask, I literally leapt off the sofa at that moment.
Dave MoorHOST
So it's the power of suggestion.
Dave MoorHOST
Yeah.
Lee ArnottHOST
You lose your mind if you watch Paranormal Activity once.
Lee ArnottHOST
That's one of the last ones that really got me up, and I watch a lot of horror films.
Lee ArnottHOST
But that jump scare with Craig Charles, I've seen Ghostwatch I don't know how many times, and I still get a...
Lee ArnottHOST
I still go, oh! When it happened.
DaveHOST
Out of anybody on it.
DaveHOST
And I think maybe Craig Charles too.
DaveHOST
He's too much.
DaveHOST
He's too kind of glib.
DaveHOST
If that's fucking possible for Craig Charles to be too glib, I don't know, but he was.
LeeHOST
Well, he was like the roving reporter, wasn't he? Yeah.
DaveHOST
In many ways, the Sarah Green bits in it are the best bits in it.
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DaveHOST
None of them are actors.
Chrissy ChampagneHOST
You know, the telethons where they usually play them around Christmas time and they have people perform and then you can call in and they show you the people sitting behind the phones taking everybody's calls.
Chrissy ChampagneHOST
Next, they add Craig Charles to the cast.
Chrissy ChampagneHOST
And he is a British comedian, presenter, actor, and DJ.
Chrissy ChampagneHOST
And he was best known for his role as Dave Lister in the sitcom Red Dwarf.
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Now on BBC One, Screen One presents an unusual and sometimes disturbing film marking Halloween.
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Over the centuries, there have been countless reports of ghosts and ghouls, but the line between fact and fiction has always been unclear.
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Using the modern idiom of the outside broadcast, Michael Parkinson, Sarah Green, Mike Smith, and Craig Charles star in Ghostwatch.
Chrissy ChampagneHOST
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