Richard Baker OBE (born 15 June 1925, Willesden, North London) is a British broadcaster best known as a newsreader for the BBC News from 1954 to 1982. He was a contemporary of Kenneth Kendall and Robert Dougall and was the first person to read the BBC Television News (in voiceover) in 1954. At one time he lived in Barnet, North London. He and his wife Margaret have two sons; Andrew, a sports columnist at the Daily Telegraph and James, a senior executive at Sky TV.
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