and 39) of Monty Python's Flying Circus and in the 1977 Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show. Personal life Baker married Margaret Martin, at St Mary The Boltons in Brompton, London, on 2 June 1961, while both were in their mid-30s. They had known each other from infancy as their mothers were friends. The couple had two sons; Andrew, a sports columnist at The Daily Telegraph and James, a television executive at Red Arrow Studios. Baker wrote a biography of Vice-Admiral Sir Gilbert Stephenson, under whom he had served. The Terror of Tobermory was published by W. H. Allen in 1972. At the time of his 90th birthday Baker was living with his wife at a retirement village in Oxfordshire. He died on 17 November 2018, at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, aged 93. Following his death, fellow BBC broadcast journalist John Simpson tweeted: "Richard Baker, who has just died, was one of the finest newsreaders of modern times: highly intelligent, thoughtful, gentle, yet tough in defence of his principles." References External links 1925 births 2018 deaths Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge English radio DJs BBC newsreaders and journalists BBC Radio 2 presenters Classical music radio presenters Officers of the Order of the British Empire People educated at Kilburn Grammar School People from Willesden Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II Royal Navy officers of World War II