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Craig Charles

24 days

Digital is all fine and dandy CD's are cool, but we all know that the wax it where it's at. My Trunk Of Funk Vol 3 is a veritable fistful of funky things.. get it on your turntable! @imprssvcllctve @bbemusic

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Craig Charles

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3 years

Me in a little show I did in 90’s

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Craig Charles

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8 months

Still finding it hard to believe that the broadcasting legend Steve wright has passed away. I was his dep for more years than I care to remember. He lived for radio.He was generous with his time and knowledge. Total radio geek and revolutionary in his day RIP Steve

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Okay guys I don’t want to alarm.but I’ve caught the Covid.Breathing is a bit laboured which is a worry.but I’ve got an oxymonitor so so far no hospital. Starting to feel a bit better. But have to isolate Sorry to let everyone down Back soon

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1 year

This is really cool

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1 year

Every episode of red dwarf ever recorded has just landed on the ⁦ @BBCiPlayer ⁩.Only took just over 3 million ’s to the next generation of let’s get out there and twat it💪🏽

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4 years

Can I just thank everyone for the love shown to me over the last few weeks regarding the teatime ’ve made me focus on the positive through the sadness and devastation of lockdown and Covid. Respect

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Craig Charles

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2 years

Me and the national treasure Noddy Holder

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Craig Charles

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5 months

Nothing to see here just me, @DannyJohnJules Chris Barrie & Hattie Hayridge on stage at the Liverpool Comic Con afterparty 😅 What a day!!

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Craig Charles

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3 years

Thanks to everyone for their lovely messages.Those less convinced please give me a for @shaunwkeaveny .I can’t fill his shoes.nobody can.I’ll miss him more than most I’m proud to call him my friend. Too hard to follow so I’m going a different route.

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Craig Charles

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3 years

Me outside @ProbeRecords on Matthew St, Liverpool sometime in the 80s. Check out my #6MusicGoesBack to the 80s @bbc6music show featuring Kathy Sledge and more!

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Craig Charles

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1 year

Nellie Charles my daughter rocking her first Glastonbury.what a crowd what a performance

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Craig Charles

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3 years

I’m out of isolation guys and back at work bring on the weekend

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Craig Charles

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6 years

So sad that Aretha Franklin has died she wasn’t just the queen of soul she was the queen of gospel and the queen of my heart hosting Steve Wright and trying not to cry need to get a grip

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Craig Charles

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4 years

Happy birthday to me from the funk and soul crew

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Craig Charles

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5 years

My daughters and I about to have my birthday meal waiting for my wife and their mother who’s LATE

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Craig Charles

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6 years

Sat on the floor of @VirginTrains from wilmslow all the way to London Feel like Jeremy Corbyn 😂

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Craig Charles

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5 years

Boys from the dwarf 💪🏽

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6 years

Boys from the dwarf when we were just boys and before we met that pesky Robot or is that Robert?

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Craig Charles

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10 months

My new Christmas jumper Abbey Christmas 🤓

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5 years

Glastonbury the Beatles reggae and the flag for me it couldn’t have felt better in the sunshine

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6 months

The good Doctor ⁦ @official_jcc ⁩ and I

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Craig Charles

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3 years

Happy birthday to my long suffering wife Jackie.

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Craig Charles

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7 years

Boys from the dwarf in front of our very own picture on the pinewood studios wall. Very grown up 😎

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Craig Charles

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4 years

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE AND A HAPPY NEWYEAR

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Craig Charles

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4 years

#RedDwarfThePromisedLand thanks for the love ya smeggers. Reg Wharf trending all night and I’ve never even met him🤣

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Craig Charles

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2 years

Basil myself and Mrs Charles with Basil Brush at the late queens platinum jubilee

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Craig Charles

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3 years

@shaunwkeaveny I love you so much man You’ve just made all my anxiety go away with a simple act of humanity and generosity Thanks my friend

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1 year

@RosmaryNuffield @JohnMc30 Rosemary I’m here I’m still alive can’t you hear me I’m alive HELP!!!!

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Craig Charles

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2 years

Have a cool Yule from the funk and soul crew Yeehaa

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Craig Charles

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3 years

World piano day

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Craig Charles

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4 years

Join us from 4 on 6music and say Tara to the teatime takeover😎

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Craig Charles

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2 years

I’d like to assure anyone watching the #platinumjubilee pageant that they’ve put me on the wrong bus I spent the whole of that decade in school😂and if they’d read my school reports they wouldn’t have asked🤷🏽‍♂️

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Craig Charles

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9 years

On set of red dwarf today

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Craig Charles

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1 year

Myself and ⁦ @OfficialIanMac ⁩ . And I’m a bit starstruck

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Craig Charles

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6 years

The king of pop ⁦ @PaulHeatonSolo ⁩ and I😎

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Craig Charles

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5 years

Glastonbury magic Still coming down

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Craig Charles

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7 years

This guys a genius ruddy_muddy the new grime artist painting in the muck on the back of a white van😎

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Craig Charles

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3 years

Shocked to hear about the death of Janice long.I started my broadcasting career with her in the early 80’s.platform 9 on radio 1.she was an amazing woman with one of the best voices on radio RIP Jan

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Craig Charles

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4 years

Can 6music look any cooler 😎😂(be kind)

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6 years

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Craig Charles

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4 years

Bill withers a giant from the golden era of black American music has passed.STILL BILL Is like a greatest hits album heartbreaking celebratory joyous soul RIP BILL

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Craig Charles

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7 years

Charles Bradley in conversation with myself. This is one tribute I never wanted to my friend

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Craig Charles

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3 years

It’s St Davids day. They made me do

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Craig Charles

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2 years

Hanging with the ⁦ @badly_drawn_boy ⁩ such a pleasure to talk to🙏

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Craig Charles

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6 years

Oh and by the way Her name is Veron She’s a person A women a widow a mother From that Windrush generation who got soo poorly treated she’s earned her respect as for you @The_JamesJorden be careful on the ice it’s really slippy out there

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Craig Charles

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6 years

Thank you you lovely lovely people for all the birthday love I’m actually overcome Thank you once again 😢😘😍

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Craig Charles

@CCfunkandsoul

7 years

The mad professor John Bentley and me getting photo bombed by Johnie ball

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Craig Charles

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2 years

With my two top dogs Hacker and Dodge. @CBeebiesHQ @ChiIdreninNeed

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Craig Charles

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3 years

My daughter Aj has managed to turn our house fire the other night into a work of art. Still feel incredibly lucky

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Craig Charles

@CCfunkandsoul

3 years

Thanks once again for all your happy birthday messages.another day older.Time sure speeds up when you’re coming down the hill🤷🏽‍♂️

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Craig Charles

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4 years

Another view from the boat.can’t say much more

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Craig Charles

@CCfunkandsoul

3 years

Me and my band WATT4 in 1981. Just go with the fro

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Craig Charles

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3 years

From daffodil to sunflower

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Craig Charles

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6 years

I must be over tired but Brooks just killed himself in Shawshank Redemption and I can’t stop crying even though I’ve seen it Countless.....

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Craig Charles

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3 years

Never thought I’d be playing my own musical beds #worldpianoday

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Craig Charles

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9 years

Okay guys. I've heard the news but as yet have had no contact with anyone involved in the new production of robot wars. #lovetodoit

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Craig Charles

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1 year

Tomorrow in Manchester @megaconlive 👾 Who’s coming?!

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Craig Charles

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7 years

Chaka khan and i

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Craig Charles

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4 years

Broadcasting the new normal 😎

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Craig Charles

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6 years

I’ve just been blocked by @The_jamesJorden having tried to explain to him about @DannyJohnJules mum.I wanted to put it into context. @The_JamesJorden was right she did look miserable but not always. I’ve known her over 30 yrs and would often pop around to the house to rehearse

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Craig Charles

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1 year

My poem for national poetry day and black history month Hope you like it💕

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Craig Charles

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3 years

Me looking like I've had a right telling off at the Van Gogh experience at MediaCity... #6musicart

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Craig Charles

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1 year

Tomorrow (Wednesday the 7th of June) would have been princes 65th birthday.What Prince tunes that are never played on the radio should I play on my daily show to celebrate?

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Craig Charles

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10 months

For one of my Xmas shows I’m looking for the 1st single you ever bought. Go on astound me or maybe embarrass yourself

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Craig Charles

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3 years

Okay peeps.need your help. I’m starting a feature tomorrow called get up. Get down.simple really. A track you play when you’re feeling good. And a track you play to cheer yourself up Can be any genre Over to you

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Craig Charles

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7 years

Chaka and me

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Craig Charles

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1 year

Rocking my funk n soul shades. Zoom in on the arm😎

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Craig Charles

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4 years

Help Who took this photo

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Craig Charles

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1 year

Is there a crisp expert out there. Someone who works for a crisp company perhaps who can tell us why all sell by dates on a pack are on Saturdays

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Craig Charles

@CCfunkandsoul

7 years

Not sure I deserve it but thank you for all the love on my birthday, fifty fecking free

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Craig Charles

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3 years

Thanking everyone for the happy birthday wishes but it’s not till tomorrow. I guess I’m trying to say I’m not that old yet 😂

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Craig Charles

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7 years

My new album came out today craig charles funk and soul club volume five and I'm chuffed to bits with it😎put a wiggle in your walk

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Craig Charles

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6 years

Me and my beaches

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Craig Charles

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4 years

I’ve just been part of a 6 person crew who rowed the length of Britain for #dontrocktheboat .such an epic adventure.what a race!

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Craig Charles

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3 years

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Craig Charles

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4 years

Me and two of my bestest pals Glastonbury 5am Festival’s Remember them?

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Craig Charles

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2 years

My guest today on ⁦ @BBC6Music ⁩ is Suresh Singh the cockney Sikh and drummer for Spizz Energi

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Craig Charles

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1 year

Billy Nomates tore the roof off @BBC6Music towers at @MediaCityUK - thanks Tor brilliant session

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Craig Charles

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4 years

Broadcasting live just got a little bit weirder

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Craig Charles

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7 years

the baftas.fact In 30 years we've never been nominated. Red dwarf X1 had bigger viewing figures than all of the nominees out together fact

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Craig Charles

@CCfunkandsoul

4 years

Craig Charles: ‘I’ve got four stents in my heart — I wanted to prove there was life after stents’

Craig Charles: ‘I’ve got four stents in my heart — I wanted to prove there was life after stents’

Q&A with the actor on rowing the length of Britain and why he’s lost faith in politics

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Craig Charles

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2 years

Rocking my Warmduscher T

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Craig Charles

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2 years

We are live on ⁦ @BBC6Music ⁩

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Craig Charles

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6 years

Joan Collins? In dynasty?

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Craig Charles

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2 years

Happy now🤷🏽‍♂️😜

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Craig Charles

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8 years

The mast talented creative innovative artist of his generation. A trendsetter and tastemaker.genre defying Prince. The king of musicians

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Craig Charles

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6 years

Actually Why the funking soul am I standing like that? I look like I’ve just been rogered by the beast from Rimmer World😂😂😂

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Craig Charles

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7 years

Just won best club night inManchester from city life thanks to everyone who voted😎

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Craig Charles

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6 years

Test driving the new Tesla model 3 AWB for ⁦ @TheGadgetShow ⁩

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Craig Charles

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3 years

On set ⁦ @TheGadgetShow ⁩

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Craig Charles

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2 years

In the time machine now on ⁦ @BBC6Music ⁩ what year have arrived at?

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Craig Charles

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3 years

Me in 1980/81 With Watt4

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Craig Charles

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1 month

We is all day raving innit 0n ⁦ @BBC6Music ⁩

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Craig Charles

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1 year

Craig Charles: 'Northern Soul will never go away'

The legendary BBC 6 Music DJ tells Rolling Stone UK on 50 years of Wigan Casino and why Northern Soul is still finding a captive audience in 2023.

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Craig Charles

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3 years

I'm over the moon to announce that I'm hosting Moneybags, a new big money quiz show for Channel 4 and we're looking for contestants to take part. If you want to have a go at grabbing thousands of pounds apply now at

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Craig Charles

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6 years

I’ve only gone and got myself a donkey for the ⁦ @TheGadgetShow ⁩ Christmas special.I’ll be back on ⁦ @BBCRadio2 ⁩ covering for Steve over the Christmas period and new year

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