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Doug Crawford originally a pirate radio DJ, and after a stint in presentation at Radio 1, became the presenter of BBC World Radio Club on World Service. Subsequently spent 35 years as a science interviewer for BBC, ABC (Australia "The Science Show"), Deutsche Welle in Koln and Radio Nederland. Voices many commercials, films and audio books

A search finds sources for most of this info, but the online sources I find are just blogs, or wiki references in other articles, etc. Though here is one for the ABC claim [1]. Additional info I found is that he also made important contributions to Start the Week, and BBC World Radio Club was also rather more important a program than the current bare content suggests. He appears to have been a significant enough figure in broadcasting at that time. I'm placing this here in the hope someone with access to printed sources can get more suitable sources. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 15:53, 20 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/

This site contains the BBC listings information which the BBC printed in Radio Times between 1923 and 2009. You can search the site for BBC programmes, people, dates and Radio Times editions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.157.57.109 (talk) 15:01, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Richard Baker,

It says here Richard Baker was the 1st Newsreader on BBC TV in 1954 in voiceover,he introduced the bulletin but he didn't read it, it was established presenter John Snagge who actually Read the News 81.98.243.229 (talk) 00:04, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]