Has his own programme where he drives a canal boat, exploring canal
ways and looking at the history of industrial age in the UK, mainly in
the Midlands.
Voted Best Male Guest Actor by readers of Doctor Who Magazine for Season 7 A.
On BBC Radio 4, where he stars in his own radio programme,
"The Tape-Recorded HighLights of a Humble Bee". (June 2003)
Co-starred with Tom Felton in Tom's first feature length film The Borrowers (1997) and
later co-starred with him again in the Harry Potter movies as Arthur
Weasley.
He read English at Brasenose College, Oxford University.
He has directed two plays at the 1996 Channel 4 Sitcom Festival in
London's Hammersmith, "Bleeding Hearts" and "In Exile".
He spent three years touring with The Mikron Theatre Company.