Raymond Richard Harding AM (born 1949) is a New Zealand film and television scriptwriter, producer and story editor.
[2] He graduated from the University of Canterbury in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature,[1][3] and later joined the British Army as a paratrooper.
[2][1] Harding secured a job at Crawford Productions in 1979 and started his writing career on the Australian series Holiday Island in 1981.
[1] He wrote the 1985 PBL telemovie I Can't Get Started, about a failing author (John Waters) who regains his creativity upon meeting a shoplifter (Heather Mitchell).
[5] Harding wrote "Episode 523" of Neighbours, which features the wedding between Scott Robinson and Charlene Mitchell (played by Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue).
The drama starred real-life sisters Joan Sydney and Maggie King, as siblings who reunite after twenty years apart.
[7] Barbara Hooks of The Age praised Harding and Higgins' collaboration and script, saying it was "a joy; witty and wise by turns, with a plot that fairly hums along.
The play looks at "the impact of war, politics, economic growth and the vision of three significant Australian writers on three generations of a Bathurst family.
[13] In 1986, Harding won the AWGIE Award for Best Script for a Television Serial for the A Country Practice episode "Lest We Forget".