Plain Talker Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 The TV presenter Raymond Baxter has died, aged 84 Another TV-icon from my childhood has gone.. I used to watch him on Tomorrow's World, and presenting the Farnborough Air Show. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabberwocky Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 Bloody hell id forgotten all about him. His voice made tomorrows world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrH Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 A great shame - and I nearly met him only last week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dealspotter Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 will be hard to find a voice like his Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrinderBloke Posted September 15, 2006 Share Posted September 15, 2006 A sad, sad day... As I grew up Ramond Baxter described many British technological breakthrough in the 1960s & 1970s. Who can forget Raymonds enthusiastic comentary of the first flight of Concorde Grinder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 What a commentator, and the only person on TW with star quality. He even had my dad on once. Great guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upinwath Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 Hero fighter pilot Great Tv presenter And listening to reports on his death a nice bloke with a good sense of humour. I think tomorrow's world would not have been quite the same without him. His easy style made it so interesting to watch. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cycleracer Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 Hope you dont take this the wrong way plain Talker. You remind me of the Grim Reaper....you report a lot of deaths on here......... Good though, saves reading the obituries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopman Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 It was because of him and many of his contemporaries that we can celebrate the "Battle of Britain" weekend this weekend. For his wartime contribution we are all grateful. As regards "Tomorrow's World" he made the programme, introducing the electron microscope, the pocket calculator and the barcode reader. It would be interesting to see those old programmes predicting our past. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plain Talker Posted September 16, 2006 Author Share Posted September 16, 2006 Hope you dont take this the wrong way plain Talker. You remind me of the Grim Reaper....you report a lot of deaths on here......... Good though, saves reading the obituries. Nah, Paul. it's just that the ones I do report are mostly huge figures from the chilhoods of lots of us on here. morbid? me? PT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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