What is Richard Baker (broadcaster)?
{{Infobox person | name = Richard Baker | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=UK|size=100|OBE|RD}} | image = | caption = | birth_name = Richard Douglas James Baker<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/46919/supplement/8023/data.pdf Supplement to the London Gazette, 12 June 1976]. Retrieved 17 November 2018</ref> | birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|6|15|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Willesden]], [[Middlesex]], England | death_date = {{death date and age|2018|11|17|1925|6|15|df=y}} | death_place = [[Oxford]], England | occupation = Broadcaster for [[BBC News]] | years_active = 1954–2007 | parents = Albert Baker<br>Jane Isobel Baker (née Baxter) | spouse = {{marriage|Margaret Martin|1961|2018|end=his death}} | children = 2 |}} '''Richard Douglas James Baker''' [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] [[Reserve Decoration|RD]] (15 June 1925 – 17 November 2018) was an English [[broadcasting|broadcaster]]. Baker was best known as a newsreader for [[BBC News]] from 1954 to 1982. He was the first reader of the ''BBC Television News'' (in voiceover) in 1954.<ref>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=41SfFF4ypmEC&pg=PA54 |title=Inventing television culture |first=Janet |last=Thumim| publisher = OUP | location = Oxford | date = 16 December 2004 | isbn = 9780198742234}}</ref> Baker made cameo appearances in three episodes (30, 33 and 39) of ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' and in the 1977 ''[[The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968 TV series)|Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show]]''. He also narrated ''[[Mary, Mungo and Midge]]'' (1969). Baker died on 18 November 2018, at the [[John Radcliffe Hospital]] in [[Oxford]], aged 93.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://tvnewsroom.org/news/former-bbc-news-presenter-richard-baker-dies-at-93-190863/|title=Former BBC News Presenter Richard Baker dies at 93 • News|date=17 November 2018|acc