Geoffrey Perkins

Geoffrey Perkins ( born February 22, 1953 † August 29, 2008 in London) was a British comedy producer, writer and actor who has played a central role in the comedy broadcasting.

Life

Geoffrey Perkins has worked for many years for BBC radio in light entertainment, where he produced shows like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Wrote with Angus Deayton and he played on Radio Active, which was acquired as KYTV on TV. He later produced The Uncyclopaedia of Rock for Capital Radio, which won the Monaco Radio Award. He invented the game Mornington Crescent for the radio show I'm Sorry I Have not a Clue.

He was for some years director of Hat Trick Productions, an independent television and radio production company. He also worked at Spitting Image, Saturday Live, Harry Enfield 's Television Programme, Ben Elton: The Man From Auntie, Game On, Father Ted and The Thin Blue Line. Perkins was 1995 head of the comedy department for television by the BBC and then Production Manager at Tiger Aspect. In 2005 he had a small supporting role in the fourth season of Hitchhiker's, as producer of the radio show, in which Arthur Dent worked, so he played in the principle itself to Arthur Douglas Adams.

Perkins was married to Lisa Brown, who was a studio manager during the radio production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He died on 29 August 2008 in a traffic accident in London.

• The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts. 1985, ISBN 978-5551374237 ( with Douglas Adams)
• Radioactive. 1986, ISBN 978-0722128060