Richard Sparks’s New Rock New Realm
Richard Sparks has experienced tremendous success in the entertainment business, having worked with such luminaries as Jack Black, Rowan Atkinson, and John Cleese of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers fame. In the film The Secret of NIMH 2, Eric Idle recorded a song of Richard’s lyrics, music by Lee Holdridge. Eric was the Bad Mouse, tempting his little brother with our “Nancy Reagan >cough< tribute song” Just Say Yes (link in the show notes).
Richard got his big break as a writer on “Not the Nine O’clock News”, an irreverent take on current affairs that featured anchors broadcasting from bed and the unique talents of Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith and Pamela Stephenson.
One of Richard’s biggest claims to fame is as the author of Atkinson’s famous “Schoolmaster” sketch (The Secret Policeman’s Ball), in which the future Mr. Bean puts a hilarious spin on attendance taking and discipline.
And now Richard is writing a series of novels with Caezik Books! Check out his website here.
Listen to Richard in the following episodes
- 327 LA writing wonder Richard Sparks on being friends with Douglas Adams and writing Speculative Fiction
- 328 Richard Sparks reading of NEW ROCK NEW REALM
- 329 NEW ROCK NEW REALM deep dive with Richard Sparks
- 330 Author Richard Sparks teases Book 3 and tells what lengths Douglas Adams would go to avoid writing
- 331 Story Structure and GOT discussion with Author Richard Sparks
- 332 Author Richard Sparks talks shop about Book Projects and English Literary Giants
