29 Aug Richard Turner

Richard Turner
Richard found his passion for theatre at Cambridge University, where he was supposed to be studying French & German. While there, he directed, wrote and performed in dozens of plays-from Shakespeare to children’s theatre-and performed, wrote and directed in the famous Footlights Revue. He has been a professional actor and comedy writer ever since, in touring, repertory and community theatre, BBC radio comedy and children’s TV, having also written and script edited for Spitting Image, The Big Breakfast and innumerable panel shows. In the early noughties, Richard was the BBC Radio Comedy Script Executive, overseeing scripts for all of the BBC Radio Comedy output, and where he developed and has since produced 13 series of the BBC Radio 4 panel show The Museum of Curiosity, which won the Rose D’Or as Europe’s Best Radio Talk Show in 2016. Richard is from South London but speaks fluent British RP and can get his tongue round most accents except Geordie, which continues to elude him. Richard has a couple of obscure claims to fame: he devised the Beadle’s About UFO prank which was voted Best TV Stunt Of All Time on Channel 4; and he coined the phrase “International Man Of Mystery” for Mike Myers’s Austin Powers.
Genres:
Fantasy, Romance
Humor, Romance - Historical
Classics, Literary Fiction
Philosophy, Religious/Spiritual
Historical Fiction, Mystery
Romance - Historical
Fantasy
Thriller, YA/Teens
History, Science
Humor
Crime, Humor
Thriller
Bio/Memoir, History, Religious/Spiritual
Self-Help
Sci-Fi
Accents:
(Brt) RP
(Brt) RP, (Brt) Yorkshire
Irish
(Brt) RP, German
(Brt) Cockney, (Brt) RP
(Brt) RP, Russian
Scottish
Audio Samples:
Fiction
Artificial Humanity
Genre: Sci-Fi
Accents:
In Spite Of All Terror
Genre: Thriller
Accents: Scottish
Murder At Melrose Court
Genre: Crime, Humor
Accents: (Brt) RP, Russian
Murder at Melrose Place
Genre: Humor
Accents: (Brt) Cockney, (Brt) RP
Stonechild
Genre: Thriller, YA/Teens
Accents:
Stormborn
Genre: Fantasy
Accents: (Brt) RP, German
The Dangerous Mister Donovan
Genre: Romance - Historical
Accents: Irish
The Divine Sage
Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery
Accents: (Brt) RP, (Brt) Yorkshire
The Servant
Genre: Classics, Literary Fiction
Accents: (Brt) RP
The Straight-Laced Duke Selbourne
Genre: Humor, Romance - Historical
Accents:
The Warlock’s Conquest
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Accents:
Non-Fiction
BAR40-Achieving Personal Excellence
Genre: Self-Help
Accents:
Duty & Destiny
Genre: Bio/Memoir, History, Religious/Spiritual
Accents:
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Genre: History, Science
Accents:
The Grotesque In The Garden
Genre: Philosophy, Religious/Spiritual
Accents:
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