Matt Richards (born 21 November 1967) is a film and television producer/director/writer from St Minver in Cornwall.
After attending the University of Westminster Film School he raised the budget to follow explorer Michael Turner on an expedition to Senegal and the Cape Verde Islands and make a short film about his efforts to document the landing places of Sir Francis Drake.
[2] Narrated by John Nettles, this 50-minute film followed the quest to prove that a plane crash in 1944 was the work of sabotage to prevent the secrets of D-Day being revealed to General Charles de Gaulle in Algiers.
Other series include Out & About, How Do They Do It?, Collector's Lot, My Greek Kitchen, Treasures, Front of House, Seventy Years Under The Stars, Team Spirit, Health Matters, Cornish Chronicles, and Big Day Out.
He is the co-author, along with Mark Langthorne, of the books "83 Minutes: The Doctor, The Damage & The Shocking Death of Michael Jackson" (Blink, 2015), "Somebody To Love: The Life, Death & Legacy of Freddie Mercury" (Blink, 2016) and "The Hidden Army" (John Blake Publishing, 2018).