Richard Baker Final Bulletin part 2

The end of RB's last broadcast in New Year's Eve 1982. Following this is a Jim Bacon weather forecast and some presentation stuff prior to the start of Porridge the movie.

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[wolfschmidt11]

He was a true bbc newsreader from 1954 to 1982

[M77174]

That he was. Old school.

[RobinCarmody]

Peter Brook is the announcer, and John Braban voices the New Drama trailer (which I think looks and sounds quite different from anything you'd have got a year earlier - the 80s were now with us).

[M77174]

I've only just noticed that comment. Thanks for the info.

Nic.

[wiedep]

was the clip at 4:01 from monty python's flying circus?

[jayrox40]

@cathkin33 Governments are good at manipulating people, look at how blair conned us all! They're all the same!

[cathkin33]

seems like the falklands and argentina were getting along fine before maggie engineered her re election conflict!

[cbak12sg]

A couple of seconds of The Good Old Days at the end!

[Clavinovaman]

So there was a strike at the Times over 'new equipement'.  I wonder how much of this new equipment is still in use...

Probably none.

[Glenn1967ful]

Another popular announcer in those days was John Glover. One interesting sight on Thames was David Hamilton who moonlighted as an announcer as well as presenting the afternoon show on Radio 2.