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Richard Carder was born in Gravesend, Kent, UK, in 1942, and studied piano from the age of five, following in the footsteps of his mother, who had studied piano & singing at the Royal Academy of Music. At the age of 14 he started clarinet lessons, after hearing a concert by Benny Goodman at the Royal Festival Hall.

From 1961-64 he studied clarinet, piano singing & composition at the Guildhall School of Music, and continued his studies at the Birmingham School of Music from 1967-70.

Having developed an interest in environmentalism at school, after reading Aldous Huxley’s, Ends & Means, he joined the Ecology Party in 1973, and was the candidate for North Somerset in the General Election of 1979.

In 1989 he spoke at the Public Inquiry for the Hinkley Point Nuclear Reactor for Friends of the Earth, focussing on the properties of the radioactive substances emitted daily into the air & the sea. He continues to work for the local group of F.O.E.