Richard Whitmore

After so many years in the newsreader's 'hot seat' it is inevitable that Richard remains typecast as a news presenter even today. Consequently, he has found himself presenting numerous fictitious and highly unlikely news reports in a wide range of film dramas and sit-coms for TV and Radio. For Universal Pictures feature film King Ralph (1991) he was filmed announcing the demise of the entire Royal Family when they are accidentally electrocuted while posing for a photograph! "In the end, that particular announcement was left on the cutting room floor although I pop up with several others later on," Richard recalls. "My favourite fictitious newscast is in an episode of Only Fools and Horses when Del Boy pinches a radar aerial from Heathrow Airport to improve his television reception and the programme ends with a Jumbo jet homing in on Nelson Mandela House!" 

Richard has also hosted conferences and fronted corporate videos for many of national companies including British Gas, Whitbread Breweries, Yamaha Keyboards, Canon Copiers and Texas Homecare. His voice has featured in numerous advertisements on ITV and Independent Radio, ranging from Sainsbury's Homebase, to the Mitsubishi Shogun and Hamlet Cigars.

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A line-up of BBC newsreaders meet Fleet Street's photographers at the Television Centre in 1981. Left to right: John Humphrys, Moira Stuart, John Simpson, Richard, Jan Leeming, Kenneth Kendall and Richard Baker.   

Introducing Moira to the new set of the News On The Hour bulletins in 1986.

Richard's career and those of seven other TV presenters are widely reckoned to have reached their peaks in 1977 when they all appeared in that memorable song-and dance routine on the Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show singing Nothing Like a Dame! That particular show was watched by a record 29 million viewers - half the population of the country - and the South Pacific number, with its remarkable acrobatic sequence, has been repeated more often than any of the other Morecambe and Wise routines. It won its director Ernest Maxin, a special award from the Television Industry. In the picture behind Eric and Ernie are: Peter Woods, Michael Aspel, Philip Jenkinson, Barry Norman, Frank Bough, Eddie Waring and the two Richards, Baker and Whitmore.