15 Facts About Philip Pope

Philip Pope was educated at Downside School and New College, Oxford.

Philip Pope performed in the BBC radio comedy series Radio Active and has starred in a number of television comedy series, including Who Dares Wins, Chelmsford 123, Round the Bend and KYTV.

Philip Pope made guest appearances in Blackadder as the painter Leonardo Acropolis and Horatio Nelson, and in Shelley as pop star Hobo.

Philip Pope appeared as Tony Angelino, the singing dustman, in the Only Fools and Horses episode "Stage Fright", in 1991.

Philip Pope toured the UK as a member of the cast of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Series Live, for which he was musical director.

Philip Pope portrayed several minor parts in the original radio series, as well as the subsequent adaptations of the later novels.

Philip Pope appeared in the radio series Old Harry's Game, and he has performed as a singer with the Thame Chamber Choir.

Philip Pope wrote or co-wrote many comic songs for Not the Nine O'Clock News and Spitting Image, the latter of which included the British Number 1 hit single "The Chicken Song", for which Rob Grant and Doug Naylor wrote the lyrics.

Philip Pope was the musical director and composer for The Fast Show, as well as the popular BBC children's programmes Words and Pictures, Fimbles and The Roly Mo Show.

Philip Pope provided the voice for the characters of Yugo and Migo from The Roly Mo Show.

Philip Pope was invited to arrange Snow Patrol's "Run 12" remixed by Jacknife Lee, to which he contributed additional guitar.

On 5 October 2004, Philip Pope featured in an episode of the radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, entitled "Fit the Fifteenth", as one of three aliens from the planet of Krikkit.

Philip Pope finally obtained a new heart in a successful operation, and was slowly nursed back to health by his family.

In 2007, Philip Pope composed the music for the radio adaptations of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and its sequel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.

In 2014, Pope appeared in The Life of Rock with Brian Pern as Mike Philips.