I met him, twice. Once at a book signing at Waterstones in Birmingham and some years later at the NEC alongside Nicholas Courtney. The latter turned into a music hall skit.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'