Richard Robinson (festival director)

Richard Robinson (born 1953 in Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England) is an actor, writer and puppeteer.

As a puppeteer,[1] Robinson is best known for building and voicing puppets for the television series Spitting Image, The Riddlers, Dizzy Heights, and Puddle Lane.

He also played Bungle in the 1994-1995 revival of the children's series Rainbow.

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,[3] now one of the biggest in the UK.