Richard Robinson (puppeteer)
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Richard Robinson is a puppeteer
based in the UK, best known for building and voicing puppets for the television series Spitting Image
, The Riddlers
, Dizzy Heights, and Puddle Lane
. In The Riddlers, he built the puppets Mossop, Middler, 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. In the mid-1990s, after years taking his children to the Science Museum and related educational events he found a new outlet as a science busker, visiting schools and festivals with science cabaret acts. He has written nearly twenty books on science. The SCIENCE MAGIC books (OUP) 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 UK.
Puppeteer
A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object, such as a puppet, in real time to create the illusion of life. The puppeteer may be visible to or hidden from the audience. A puppeteer can operate a puppet indirectly by the use of strings, rods, wires, electronics or directly by his or...
based in the UK, best known for building and voicing puppets for the television series Spitting Image
Spitting Image
Spitting Image is a British satirical puppet show that aired on the ITV network from 1984 to 1996. It was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Television. The series was nominated for 10 BAFTA Awards, winning one for editing in 1989....
, The Riddlers
The Riddlers
The Riddlers was a British children's programme produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV between 1986 and 1998.-Synopsis:The series centred around Marjorie Dawe and the two Riddlers named Mossop and Tiddler , who inhabited her garden at Riddleton...
, Dizzy Heights, and Puddle Lane
Puddle Lane
Puddle Lane was a 1980s British pre-school children's television programme written by Rick Vanes with animated stories written by Sheila K. McCullagh, author of Tim and the Hidden People. A long series of books based on said stories was produced by Ladybird Books, also under the title Puddle Lane...
. In The Riddlers, he built the puppets Mossop, Middler, 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
Rainbow (TV series)
Rainbow is a British children's television series, created by Pamela Lonsdale, which ran twice weekly at 12:10 on Tuesdays and Fridays on the ITV network, from 16 October 1972 to 6 March 1992...
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Before his puppeteering career, Richard was a busker. In the mid-1990s, after years taking his children to the Science Museum and related educational events he found a new outlet as a science busker, visiting schools and festivals with science cabaret acts. He has written nearly twenty books on science. The SCIENCE MAGIC books (OUP) 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 UK.