Richard George Joice (1921 in Great Ryburgh, Norfolk – 1 October 1999) was a British regional television presenter renowned in the East of England for his Anglia Television programmes - particularly the Bygones series that ran from 1967 for twenty years.
A farmer's son, Dick Joice was educated at Culford School before taking over his father's tenancy on the Norfolk estate of the Marquess Townshend in 1940.
Townshend, chairman of the new Anglia Television company, recognised that programmes for the farming community would be a vital part of the service and asked Dick to help.
[2] Each half-hourly edition of Bygones explored East Anglian history and traditional crafts and featured mystery objects, about which Joice asked viewers, "Does anyone know what this was used for?"
In 1979 this lifetime collection came to rest in the stable block at Holkham Hall after Lord Leicester acquired it to complement his exhibition celebrating the contribution of the Coke family to the Agricultural Revolution of the late 18th and 19th centuries.