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 tell us about New Rock New Role:

• 301 Author Ricard Sparks talks about Video Gaming
• 302 Friends with Douglas Adams and other True Stories of the London TV Scene
• 303 Richard Sparks’s novel NEW ROCK NEW ROLE, video games and role playing mashup
• 304 Richard Sparks reads from novel NEW ROCK NEW ROLE
• 305 Dinner with William Shatner
• 306 Comedy and Science-Fiction & Fantasy Genres