David Shaw-Parker trained at RADA and began his career with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-Upon-Avon having toured with them to Europe, Japan, Los Angeles, Washington and Broadway NY. He combines a busy career in theatre and television with a wide variety of radio work, from drama to narrating documentaries. In 1992 he was invited to join the cast of The Muppets’ Christmas Carol as the voice of Joe The Spider. David has also appeared at the Royal National Theatre in The False Servant and My Fair Lady and in the West End in Victoria Wood’s musical of Acorn Antiques.