BIOGRAPHY

Robert Llewellyn is perhaps best know for his portrayal of Krysten in Red Dwarf. Still the show with the highest ever ratings for BBC2, the last series was made in 1998, but the long awaited movie is just around the corner.

Robert went on to present Channel 4's Scrapheap Challenge. The engineering-based show features two teams competing to build a working machine from spare parts salvaged from a scrapyard.

Robert's current series, Carpool, started out as an online podcast. The show sees Robert
interviewing celebrities whilst giving them a lift in his Hybrid Toyota. Past guests include Stephen Fry, Sir Patrick Stewart, Quentin Willson and Robert's Red Dwarf co-stars. The podcasts proved so popular that UKTV began broadcasting them on Dave.

Robert has a long string of writing credits, including Therapy and How to Avoid It, co-written with Nigel Planer. In 2008 he published Sold Out: How I survived a year of not shopping - based on his series of films on YouTube.

A technology entrepreneur at heart, Robert has devised the software application Womanwizard. It allows men to create a virtual wife, then experiment and learn about their relationship without putting any real world relationships at risk.

In his after dinner speech, Robert recounts his experience as a GEO - a Gullible Executive Officer: "I spend hours each day downloading, clicking through, endlessly checking my inbox, spamming, backing up, crashing, re-booting, re-installing and re-building my firewalls. I haven't actually written anything in years."

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