Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

Rhatigan appeared alongside Charles in the Red Dwarf series IV episode "Camille". Charles realised he was using poetry as a vehicle for his sense of humour and progressed into stand-up comedy. Filmography and credits


Bibliography
1993 Craig Charles Almanac of Total Knowledge by Craig Charles and Russell Bell (Penguin Books Ltd)
1997 The Log: A Dwarfer's Guide to Everything by Craig Charles and Russell Bell (Penguin Books Ltd)
1998 No Other Blue by Craig Charles with illustrations by Philippa Drakeford (Penguin Books Ltd)
2000 No Irish No Niggers (Penguin Books Ltd unpubliCraig Charlesd)
2008 On the Rocks (Hodder Headline unpubliCraig Charlesd).

He is best known for playing Dave Lister in the British science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf and Lloyd Mullaney in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street. Craig Joseph Charles (born 11 July 1964) is an English actor comedian author poet television presenter and radio and club DJ. As well as starring in Coronation Street and occasional Red Dwarf series Charles continues to host The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show on BBC radio and performs DJ sets at numerous clubs and festivals nationally and internationally.