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What’s your favourite piece of technology, and how has it improved your life?
It’s got to be the satnav, and it’s improved my life because I don’t get lost any more. I was always terrible at reading maps – I didn’t even know if I was holding it the right way up or not.

When was the last time you used it, and what for?
To find my way to the Prince Charles Theatre in Leicester Square for the premiere of Red Dwarf X.

What additional features would you add if you could?
I would love Basil Fawlty to be the voice of my satnav. It would be great if you could get celebrity characters doing satnav voices. Imagine having Rimmer doing your satnav for you …

Do you consider yourself to be a luddite or a nerd?
I’m a luddite, a definite luddite. I wish I wasn’t, but I am. Although you do see pensioners and people like that now going on computer courses and learning how to do things. My wife often encourages me, saying: “Why don’t you go on a little course so that you’re more comfortable around this technology?” Why do that when you’ve got people who’ll do it for you?

Red Dwarf star Craig Charles on computers and technology Photograph: Dean Chalkley/BBC/Dean Chalkley

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