Kel Richards

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Kel Richards
Born
Kelvin Barry Richards

(1946-02-08) 8 February 1946 (age 78)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation(s)Author, broadcaster, journalist
Employer 2CH

Kelvin Barry "Kel" Richards (born 8 February 1946) is an Australian author, journalist, broadcaster and lay Christian.

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Born in Sydney, Richards has written a series of crime novels and thrillers for adult readers which includes The Case of the Vanishing Corpse, Death in Egypt and An Outbreak of Darkness.

Richards presented ABC NewsRadio's weekend afternoons, which included regular Wordwatch segments until 15 August 2010. [1] Wordwatch was a feature introduced by Richards. Initially developed as a "filler" program for the radio programs to allow time for changes of people or locations, it tapped into an interest by the listening public and several books have been produced based on the show's research. In November 2003 the thousandth episode of the show was produced. [2]

Kel Richards more recently presented Sydney radio station 2CH's Sunday night program "Sunday Night with Kel Richards". [3]

He is a lay canon at St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney, and the author of The Aussie Bible (2003), which has sold over 100,000 copies. The Aussie Bible translates sections of the Bible into Australian vernacular. He followed it up in 2006 with More Aussie Bible. [4]

Bibliography

Crime novels

Ben Bartholomew series

Mark Roman mysteries

Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Terror

C. S. Lewis mysteries

Other works

Short stories

Adaptations

Children's picture books

Non-fiction

Television writing

– Deadfall (1998)
– A Blow to the Heart (1999)
– House of Spirits (2000)
– A Stab in the Dark (2000)

Notes

  1. Whittaker, Jason (12 August 2010). "ABC wordsmith signs off". Crikey. Private Media. Retrieved 16 August 2010.
  2. Javes, Sue (11 November 2003). "Kel's defining moment". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  3. "Kel Richards" . Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  4. "More Aussie Bible". Koorong. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
  5. "Filmography – Kel Richards". IMDb. Retrieved 24 March 2008.

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