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    Wretched Baker, RIP

    Veteran newsreader Richard Baker has died.

    The question is, did he ever learn how to pronounce "flat"?

    (One for the teenagers there)

    #2
    One more nail in my childhood...

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      #3
      Without googling, can we name all the newsreaders and presenters who were on Morecambe and Wise singing "there is nothing like a dame "
      Richard Baker
      Frank Bough
      Barry Norman
      ?
      ?
      ?

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        #4
        Peter Woods and Eddie Waring.

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          #5
          Michael Aspel

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            #6
            Robert Dougall
            Kenneth Kendell

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              #7
              Michael Rodd

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                #8
                Michael Parkinson

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                  #9
                  The last of the big 3 at the BBC (Dougal and Kendall).

                  Nice snippet from the Guardian's report:

                  In recent years Baker moved into a retirement home, where he found a novel way of settling in. Each day he would select the interesting headlines from the day’s papers and read them aloud to his fellow residents at six o’clock.
                  Although I have visions of other residents telling relatives that they all gather for the Six O'clock News with Richard Baker, and the relatives shaking their heads at another sign of lost faculties.

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                    #10
                    He was a proper newsreader.

                    Mind you, he'd been gone* from telly so long I'd assumed he'd passed years ago.

                    *not only retired, but to my knowledge didn't make a single post-retirement appearance on the box.

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                      #11
                      RIP. Apparently, he used to read the news headlines at 6pm to other residents at his retirement home. Tremendous, if true.

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                        #12
                        I thought that if I shared the retirement home that would really piss me off.

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                          #13
                          Given your age, I'm sure it would.

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                            #14
                            Peter Whitmore?

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Nurse Duckett View Post
                              Peter Whitmore?
                              1/2 point for the surname.

                              Whitmore was another Richard.

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