Richie is best known for his comedy song-writing and has composed for many iconic comedy shows of the last twenty-odd years. Beginning with Goodness Gracious Me and Dead Ringers back in the 2000s through to every song for the multiple award-winning Horrible Histories, Richie has written for a huge array of TVs top comedy and voice talent. He has hundreds upon hundreds of song-writing credits for CBBC/Cbeebies – from the current pop pastiches of Andy and the Band to the catchy ear-worms of Mr Bloom via the Teletubbies and Mr Tumble.  His songs for Horrible Histories have been the subject of two BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.

With long-time musical sidekick and audio production tsar Matt Katz, Richie has penned countless theme tunes for radio and television. From a secret bunker in rural Warwickshire the pair have scored hours of television, including hundreds of episodes of the award-winning Baby Jake and the rebooted Teletubbies for Cbeebies, the YouTube series Minibods for Moonbug Entertainment as well as scoring the Horrible Histories: The Movie.

Richie is an established radio comedy writer/performer – his Writers’ Guild award-winning show 15 Minute Musical  was a mainstay of the Radio 4 schedule for fourteen years. His BBC Audio Award-nominated sitcom Mr Muzak ran for two series and he also wrote, produced and performed three series of the late night comedy The Music Teacher, and  two series of Dave Lamb’s audience sitcom, Hobby Bobbies.

Back in the day he wrote and and performed in The Cheese Shop, Look Away Now and The Bigger Issues for Radio 4, nine series of Parsons and Naylor’s Pull-Out Sections for BBC Radio 2 as well as two solid years on live kids’ TV.

Richie is a founding director of Top Dog Productions – an independent production company making comedy and drama for BBC Radio 4.

Formed with Matt Katz, Dave Lamb, Nick Walker and Jim North the company has an impressive roster of shows and its own shiny website right here

Richie’s credits on IMDb

Richie’s credits on British Comedy Guide