Nick Wilton

Nick read Drama & English at Kent University. He made his professional acting debut in the 1980 revival of the Whitehall farce "Simple Spymen", directed by Brian Rix, and later went on to play opposite Brian in the West End revival of "Dry Rot". In 1982, he won the Perrier award at Edinburgh with the revue group, Writers Inc. He then spent three years on BBC One's Carrott's Lib (1982), which won a Bafta for Best Live Entertainment programme, and picked up two Sony awards for best radio comedy with "Son of Cliche" and "In One Ear", which both ran for three series on Radio 4. He was in (and wrote for) the kids' TV shows Play Away (1971), No 73 (1982) and Fast Forward (1984), and appeared on Jackanory (1965) several times including reading his own story for their 25th Birthday celebrations (other writing credits include Not The Nine O'clock News, Three Of A Kind, Spitting Image, Smith & Jones, and Smack The Pony) and yes, he has been in Casualty (1986), Doctors (2000), Heartbeat (1992), T