Richard L. Lewis

Richard L. Lewis

Richard Leslie Lewis is a broadcaster, script writer and television producer.

Lewis left the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1998 to concentrate on writing. He was a screenwriter on "Undertaking Betty", released by Miramax films.

Writing & producing

He was a writer on "" in 2006. Lewis was a contributing writer on many comedy shows for British Television. He works closely with "Dead Ringers" impressionist Jon Culshaw.

Lewis wrote "Bill Jill & Soda" and "The Parcel of Dreams" for Radio 4. He wrote "Plaza Patrol", "Free Every Friday" and "Casino" for YTV. He was the writer and director of "The Golden Oldie Picture Show" BBC1. He produced and wrote "Back on the Box" and wrote "Noel's House Party".

Lewis worked for BBC Entertainment Department as Producer/Director and later Executive Producer. Richard Lewis was the series producer on a number of Noel Edmonds television vehicles:
*"Telly Addicts" [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0507667/] ,
*"Telly Years" and
*"Noel's Addicts".

Lewis wrote and produced "Jeremy Clarkson's Star Cars" and "Going for a Song" with Michael Parkinson. Lewis brought the popular word game "Call My Bluff" back to British TV with Alan Coren and Sandi Toksvig. He was the producer of "Le Man Dream", "Variety Club Awards", "Not A Lot of people Know That" and "21 Years of Radio 1".

Broadcasting

*"Late Night Friday", Radio 2,
*Reader of "Seven Professor of the Far North",
*"The Big Toe Radio Show" on BBC Radio 7.

He can currently (2006) be heard on BBC Radio Bristol on Sundays from 10am to 1pm, and weekdays from 2pm until 5pm on "The Richard Lewis Show". It's on Sunday's from 10am to 1pm and then midweek from 10am to 12 midday. The show started life as an Evening Show from 7pm to 10pm midweek. In the summer of 2006 Richard did a live broadcast to open the new Monkey enclosure at Bristol Zoo. Features include The Golden Oldie Name Game, The Top 10, and lots of text and phone in competitions and stories. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/articles/2005/11/30/richardlewisprofile_feature.shtml]


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