Bruce Rodney Wingate Parker, MBE[1] is a British journalist and television presenter whose career spanned the mid-1960s to 2003, when he retired.
In the 1970s he became a familiar face to viewers in the rest of Britain, first as a network news reporter and later as the first host of Antiques Roadshow (which he helped set up with Robin Drake) and a regular contributor to and presenter of Nationwide.
He was also the BBC commentator for the raising of the Mary Rose in October 1982, clips of which regularly appear on nostalgia and retrospective programmes.
He also presented a number of programmes on Radio 4 including The Week's Antiques, which he devised, and the regional Today from the South and West.
He was a member of Guernsey and Channel Island teams until 2003 and took part in the Commonwealth championships in 1988, held in Sydney, Australia.