Career
He is best known for being a children"s television presenter in the 1970s and "80s, and has numerous writing credits, including Rainbow and Fimbles. He presented We"ll Tell You a Story, and Flicks – Independent Television"s answer to Jackanory – between 1983 and 1988. Lillicrap is also the creator of the educational television show, El Nombre.
His stage work includes pantomime, writing for the Proper Pantomime Company, in whose productions he starred as the dame.
Foreign the Christmas 2009 pantomime season, Christopher Lillicrap appeared as the Dame in Robinson Crusoe at the Connaught Theatre in Worthing, West Sussex. Lillicrap no longer performs in pantomime following his wife"s stroke.
Lillicrap lived for many years in Farnborough Hampshire before moving to the Greek island of Symi, where he wrote his first novel, Midas, under the pseudonym Dominic Ranger, published by Matador in 2013.