Rob Grant
Robert Grant is an English comedy writer, television producer and co-creator of "Red Dwarf". Since "Red Dwarf", Grant has written two television series, "The Strangerers" and "Dark Ages", and four solo novels, his most recent being "Fat". During his career Grant has been involved in two distinct writing partnerships: the first with Doug Naylor, and the second and most recent with Andrew Marshall. Early life. Grant was born in Salford and studied Psychology at Liverpool University for two years. Career. In the mid-1980s, Grant collaborated with co-writer Doug Naylor on radio programmes such as "Son Of  Cliché", "Wrinkles" for Radio 4 and television programmes such as "Spitting Image", "The 10 Percenters", and various projects for Jasper Carrott. The 'Grant Naylor' collaboration, as it had become known, created the cult science-fiction comedy series, "Red Dwarf", which evolved from "", a recurring sketch within "Son Of Cliché". Grant was briefly seen (uncredited) in an episode of "Red Dwarf" entitled "Backwards" (1989), as a man who 'un-smoked' a cigarette. In the mid-1990s, the 'Grant Naylor' collaboration was ended when Grant left "Red Dwarf" after the sixth series, citing creative differences ("... it was basically 'musical differences' ...") with Doug Naylor . His main reason however, he said, was that he 'wished to have more on his 'tombstone' than "Red Dwarf" on its own'. In 2018, Grant collaborated with Andrew Marshall to produce, direct and write the BBC Radio 4 Series, "The Quanderhorn Xperimentations" - and also the novel version published by Gollancz Publishers.