Richard Baker obituary

Popular BBC newsreader who hosted Radio 4’s Start the Week and the Last Night of the PromsIn July 1954 Richard Baker, who has died aged 93, became the first announcer to introduce a news bulletin on BBC television; up to then it had used just newsreel films. But though Baker came to flourish as a courteous and reassuring dispenser of TV news for the next 28 years, his debut was limited and unseen, beginning with a rather guarded voiceover: “Here is an illustrated summary of the news