Editing Richard Briers (section)

==Radio and voice work==
He was a familiar [[Voice acting|voice actor]]. Briers [[Narration|narrated]] the animated children's TV programme ''[[Roobarb]]'' (1974). Originally shown on BBC1 just before the evening [[news]], each five-minute cartoon was written by [[Grange Calveley]] and produced by [[Bob Godfrey]]. He was the original narrator and voice actor for all the characters in the ''[[Noddy (character)|Noddy]]'' (1975) TV series based on the [[Enid Blyton]] character,<ref name=bbcobit/> and then another series with Godfrey, ''[[Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk]]'' (1976). He also provided the voice of Fiver in the animated film adaptation of ''[[Watership Down (film)|Watership Down]]'' (1978). In 1990 Briers provided the narration and voiced all the characters in the five-minute animated series ''Coconuts'' about a monkey, a king lion and a parrot who lived on a tropical island. The series ran for ten episodes and first aired on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] on 23 April 1990. In the 1990s, he voiced the part of Mouse, opposite [[Alan Bennett]]'s Mole in the TV series ''[[Mouse and Mole]]'', based on books by Joyce Dunbar and [[James Mayhew]]. He latterly starred alongside [[Neil Morrissey]] in ''[[Bob the Builder]]'' (2005) as Bob's Dad, Robert to his credit. As well as performing all 12 of Fiona Waters' stories on the 1995 ''Stories For Bedtime'' book for [[Cassette tape|audio cassette]], he recorded all 4 of the seasonal ''[[Percy the Park Keeper]]'' stories for a grand [[Compact disc|CD]] release based on the books by [[Nick Butterworth]], creating memorable voices for all of the animal characters as well as Percy the Park Keeper himself. Briers also featured in the television series adaptation of ''[[Watership Down (1999 TV series)|Watership Down]]'' (1999–2001), this time voicing a series exclusive character called Captain Broom, and was one of the very few actors who stayed for all three series.

His work in radio included playing Dr. Simon Sparrow in [[BBC Radio 4]]'s adaptions of [[Richard Gordon (English author)|Richard Gordon]]'s ''[[Doctor in the House (novel)|Doctor in the House]]'' and ''Doctor at Large'' (1968), and a retired thespian in a series of six plays with [[Stanley Baxter]] ''[[Marilyn Imrie#Two Pipe Problems: A Streetcar Named Revenge|Two Pipe Problems]]'' (2008), and later the play ''Not Talking'', commissioned for [[BBC Radio 3]] by [[Mike Bartlett (playwright)|Mike Bartlett]]. In 1986 he narrated Radio 4's ''Oh, yes it is!'', a history of pantomime written by Gerald Frow. Between 1973 and 1981, Briers played [[Bertie Wooster]] in the radio series ''[[What Ho! Jeeves]]'' with [[Michael Hordern]] as [[Jeeves]].<ref>Taves, Brian. ''P.G. Wodehouse And Hollywood: Screenwriting, Satires And Adaptations'', Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2006, p.128</ref>

Briers narrated numerous commercials, including adverts for the [[Midland Bank]] in which he was the voice of the company's Griffin symbol. Between 1984 and 1986 he made a series of commercials for the [[Ford Sierra]] done in a sitcom style portraying the Sierra as "one of the family".<ref name=bbcobit/> Briers narrated the [[public information film]] ''Frances the Firefly'', about the dangers of playing with [[matches]], firstly in the mid 1990s when first made, and then in the early 2000s when re-made by the Government [[fire safety]] campaign Fire Kills. He also recorded the voice of a [[Satellite navigation|satnav]] specifically designed for senior citizens in [[BBC 2]]'s TV Show ''[[Top Gear (2002 TV series)|Top Gear]]'', Series 19, episode 5, which aired only a week after his death. Presenter [[Jeremy Clarkson]] paid a brief tribute to his memory at the end of the episode.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r2ckq|title=Episode 5, Series 19, Top Gear – BBC Two|publisher=BBC}} Briers also briefly provided a voice-over for [[Top Up TV|'Top-UP TV']] commercials – a digital TV service in the UK, following the collapse of ITV Digital/On Digital, with the catchphrase 'Fancy a top up?' in Briers's inimitable vocal style.</ref>