Richard Baker (broadcaster)
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Richard Baker is a British broadcaster, born in 1925 and best known as 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.
Baker was educated at the former Kilburn Grammar School and at Cambridge University. He has presented many classical music programmes on both television and radio, including for many years the annual live broadcast from the Last Night of the Proms, and made occasional cameo appearances on Monty Python's Flying Circus. He also narrated Mary, Mungo and Midge, a children's cartoon produced by the BBC in 1969 as well as Prokofiev's composition for children Peter and the Wolf. He currently presents Your Hundred Best Tunes for BBC Radio 2 on Sunday Nights.
