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Richard lives in Worthing in West Sussex, close to Brighton on the south coast of England. His house is pink!
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Richard left school when he was fifteen. He worked as a printer for two and a half years and then went to work in a recording studio.
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In his mid-twenties, Richard attended a School of Mime in London. After this, he went on to perform mime plays across theUK and abroad.
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In the 1980s and 1990s, Richard appeared as a regular background police office in the TV series ‘The Bill’.
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Richard has appeared on a number of other TV shows, including Eastenders, Poirot and the Generation Game!
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Richard has also worked as a security guard at the Royal Festival Hall in London.
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Richard has written and starred in a children’s TV comedy series called ‘Snug and Cozi’ about two crazy aliens who crash-land on Earth.
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Richard has learned many amazing circus skills including juggling, unicycling, fire-eating, walking on glass, lying on a bed of nails and knife throwing!
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In 2006, Richard caught a bug that began to destroy his left eye. Unfortunately, his left eye had to be removed and he now wears a prosthesis.
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Richard was one of the firstBritish podcasters in the UK.He has recorded thousands of podcast episodes and he also wona podcast award in 2005.
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Richard once recorded a podcast episode insideDr. Who’s tardis!
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Richard’s loves books, particularly history books. He can’t resist popping into a secondhand bookshop and buying something!
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Richard has met QueenElizabeth II. However, hewas dressed as a schoolboy in a blazer and shorts(even though he was forty years old)!
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In 2011, Richard launched‘The Bald Explorer’. This wasa documentary series aboutBritish History and it has been broadcast on the Community Channel in the UK.
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The first town featured in ‘The Bald Explorer’ TV series was Lewesin East Sussex.
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Richard owns a coracle and has paddled it on the River Severn in Shropshire.
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Richard once spent the night in a haunted house, looking for ghosts. He didn’t find any!
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Richard has always loved writing. He has written three books in the ‘Splidge the Cragflinger’ series.
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Richard also createsillustrations, journals,spin-off stories and audiorecordings to help his readerslearn more about the characters in his books.
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Richard says that his characters sometimes decide what happens next in his stories... even if he thinks they should do something else!
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