Charles is a television comedy producer and director. His diverse career began at Birmingham Repertory Theatre as a dancer in a musical, and broadened to include working as an actor, musician, cabaret artist, army bandsman, restauranter, writer and composer. After twelve years at the BBC, Charles is now freelance, and concentrates on various projects, including four complete stage musicals, two screenplays, two TV game shows, a new sitcom, and half a novel which hasn't been touched for weeks, for obvious reasons.

His fascinating and often hilarious talks introduce the myriad of stars past and present with whom Charles has been associated during his thirty years in the entertainment business. His first talk follows his life story, from Cathedral choir boy, via the British Army of the Rhine, where he was possibly the only soldier in Germany trained in classical ballet, to the BBC - where he progressed from tea boy on "Hi-De-Hi!" to Sir Jonathon Miller's assistant in two weeks and eventually became a producer and devisor of light entertainment and comedy shows. His second talk explains how a popular stuation comedy is made, from the initial idea, through the lunacy of location filming, working with actors, children and animals, to the finished product transmitted across the world.