Geoffrey Perkins is a comedy producer, writer, and performer, who has been a central figure in British comedy broadcasting. He worked for several years in BBC Radio Light Entertainment, producing such shows as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Along with Angus Deayton, he wrote and performed in Radio Active, which transferred to television as KYTV. He later produced The Uncyclopaedia of Rock for Capital Radio, which won the Monaco Radio Award. He created the game Mornington Crescent for the radio show I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. He was a director of Hat Trick Productions, an independent television and radio production company for several years. His writing and production credits for television include Spitting Image, Saturday Live, Harry Enfield's Television Programme, Ben Elton: The Man From Auntie, Game On, Father Ted, and The Thin Blue Line. He became BBC Television's Head of Comedy in 1995, and is now an executive producer for Tiger Aspect. He is married to Lisa Braun, who was a studio manager during the radio production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In 2005 he cameoed in the fourth radio series of Hitchhiker's (The Quandary Phase), as the producer of the radio show Arthur Dent worked on, essentially playing himself to Arthur's Douglas Adams.
