Richard Baker (broadcaster)

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

(1925-06-15)15 June 1925
Willesden, Middlesex, England
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