Career

In The Riddlers, he built the puppets Mossop, Middler, Glossop, Eesup, and Tiddler (Tiddlup), also voicing Mossop and Middler. On Dizzy Heights he played Victor Gristle, and on Puddle Lane he played Toby the Dragon and other puppets. He also played Bungle in the 1994-1995 revival of the children"s series Rainbow.

Before his puppeteering career, Richard was a busker.

He has written nearly twenty books on science. The SCIENCE Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Chernobyel books (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK) were shortlisted for the Royal Society"s science book prize 2000.

WHY THE TOAST ALWAYS LANDS BUTTER-SIDE DOWN (Constable Robinson 2005) has been translated into 14 languages. In 2005 he founded the Brighton Science Festival, now one of the biggest in the United Kingdom.