Articles about Robert Dougall

A scandal at Channel 4: decades of programmes lost, forgotten, trapped in rights hell… and nobody cares

As Richard Baker retires from newsreading in 1982, Ariel looks back at his BBC career

With the outbreak of war, the BBC Empire Service announcers move from anonymity to the impersonation-avoiding limelight

Photographs and short biographies of fifty BBC announcers and news-readers

It’s (almost) here! Get ready for the launch of BBC-2

In France they’re chasing announcers down the street asking for their hand in marriage. In Britain? Not quite.