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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. He was a contemporary of Kenneth Kendall and Robert Dougall and was the first reader of the BBC Television News (in voiceover) in 1954.
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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.
Nov 17, 2018 · Richard Baker was born in Willesden, north London, on 15 June 1925, the son of a plasterer. His father was a keen amateur singer who encouraged his son to take up the piano. Initially...
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,...
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
Nov 17, 2018 · Former BBC newsreader Richard Baker has died aged 93, his family have said. Baker introduced the first BBC television news bulletin in 1954 and went on to become a leading news presenter.
Nov 17, 2018 · Richard Baker was born in Willesden, north London, on 15 June 1925, the son of a plasterer. His father was a keen amateur singer who encouraged his son to take up the piano. Initially he...
Nov 17, 2018 · Former BBC newsreader Richard Baker has died aged 93. The son of a plasterer, London-born Baker introduced the first BBC TV news bulletin broadcast in July 1954.
