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Code
DS/UK/9016
Name
Baker; Richard (1925-); OBE; English broadcaster
Variations of Name
Richard Douglas James Baker
Dates
15 June 1925-17 November 2018
Gender
Male (cisgender)
Place of Birth/Origin
Willesden, Middlesex, England (born)
Biography
Richard Baker OBE RD 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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