Kevin Barry ‘Kel’ Richards is an Australian author, journalist and radio personality. He presents Sydney radio station 2CH’s Sunday night program ‘Connections’. He has written a series of crime novels and thrillers for adult readers, including The Case of the Vanishing Corpse, Death in Egypt and An Outbreak of Darkness. Richards presented ABC News Radio’s weekend afternoons, which included regular Wordwatch segments, a feature he introduced. Initially developed as a filler program to allow time for changes of people or locations between programs, Wordwatch tapped into the listening public’s interest and several books have been produced based on the show’s research.