Chris Drake obituary

Eminent BBC reporter and technical wizardChris Drake, who has died aged 77, was an exemplar of an endangered species in British national broadcasting: the reporter. As the era loomed in which everyone would become a specialist or an editor, Chris distinguished himself at BBC News, at home and abroad, as a newsman with a fast and coherent way of transmitting a story, skilled not just in delivery and content but in the transmission itself – he was a technical wizard.He joined the BBC in the