Richard Baker (broadcaster)

Richard Baker
Presenting BBC News in 1982
Born
Richard Douglas James Baker[1]

(1925-06-15)15 June 1925
Died17 November 2018(2018-11-17) (aged 93)
Oxford, England
OccupationBroadcaster (BBC News)
Years active1954–2007
Spouse
Margaret Martin
(m. 1961)
Children2
Parent(s)Albert Baker
Jane Isobel Baker (née Baxter)

Richard Douglas James Baker OBE RD (15 June 1925 – 17 November 2018) was an English broadcaster, best known as a newsreader for BBC News from 1954 to 1982, and as a radio presenter of classical music. He was a contemporary of Kenneth Kendall and Robert Dougall and was the first reader of the BBC Television News (in voiceover) in 1954.[2]

  1. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 12 June 1976. Retrieved 17 November 2018
  2. ^ Thumim, Janet (16 December 2004), Inventing television culture, Oxford: OUP, p. 54, ISBN 9780198742234

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