Author: Dominic Ranger

Dominic Ranger is the pseudonym of Christopher Lillicrap, a former teacher, prolific writer and composer, who is best known as a children”s TV presenter in the 70s and 80s. His own shows, We”ll Tell You a Story and Flick, ran on Thames TV for over ten years. He also presented Playboard for the BBC and appeared in several episodes of Rainbow. He is still involved in writing for children and his educational series Numbertime gained the Royal Television Society award for Best Educational Programme. Christopher has also worked with numerous police forces over the last twenty five years as a media consultant and been an adviser on several high-profile cases, including the Millie Dowler murder in Surrey. It is this work which has inspired Midas. He lives in Devon with his actress wife Jeanette Ranger.