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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.
RICHARD Baker, the broadcaster who read the BBC’s first televised news bulletin, has died in Oxford aged 93. The popular newsreader presented classical music on BBC Third Programme, as well as...
Nov 17, 2018 · 17 November 2018. BBC. The voice of Richard Baker introduced the first news bulletin broadcast on BBC television. But it was a year before he was actually seen on screen, going on to become...
Nov 17, 2018 · Richard Baker, who has just died, was one of the finest newsreaders of modern times: highly intelligent, thoughtful, gentle, yet tough in defence of his principles. — John Simpson (@JohnSimpsonNews) November 17, 2018.
Nov 18, 2018 · Richard Baker, the broadcaster who has died aged 93, was the first person to read the BBC television news and remained the urbane and authoritative voice of BBC news and classical music...
- Telegraph Obituaries
Yet to classify Richard Baker, who has died at the age of 93, simply as a newscaster is to undervalue his varied talents and his contribution to the nation’s cultural life.
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The broadcaster Richard Baker, who died yesterday at the age of 93, was the first presenter of a BBC television news programme in 1954 — and never gave up reading the news, even in his declining years.
