John Lloyd (writer)
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Secret Comedy Podcast, August 2013
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| Born |
John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd 30 September 1951 Dover, England |
| Nationality | British |
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West Hill Park School The King's School, Canterbury Trinity College, Cambridge |
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| Spouse(s) | Sarah Lloyd |
| Children | 3 |
John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd, CBE (born 30 September 1951) is an English television producer and writer best known for his work on such comedy television programmes as Not the Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Blackadder and QI.
He is currently the presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity, a spin-off of QI.
Lloyd was born in Dover, England. His father, H. L. 'Harpy' Lloyd, was an Anglo-Irish captain with the Royal Navy. As a child Lloyd lived in several different places, owing to his father's job. This led him to attend school properly only at the age of 9½. He was educated at West Hill Park School in Titchfield, Hampshire, a place where he claims bullying was "endemic", and later at The King's School, Canterbury. He read Law at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a member of the Footlights. There he befriended Douglas Adams, with whom he later shared a flat.
Lloyd is the great nephew of John Hardress Lloyd.
Lloyd worked as a radio producer at the BBC between 1974 and 1978 and created The News Quiz, The News Huddlines, To The Manor Born (with Peter Spence) and Quote... Unquote (with Nigel Rees). He wrote Hordes of the Things (as J. H. W. Lloyd) with Andrew Marshall, co-authored two episodes of Doctor Snuggles with Douglas Adams, and went on to co-write the fifth and sixth episodes of the first radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy with Adams (Douglas Adams wrote all the previous and subsequent episodes solo, as well as the television adaptation – though Lloyd was involved in the TV series as associate producer). He also produced The Burkiss Way.
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