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'Voice of speaking clock' Peach dead at 59

Posted December 4, 2008 12:22:00
Updated December 4, 2008 13:45:00

Richard Peach has died, aged 59. (ABC)

Former ABC broadcaster Richard Peach, the voice behind the speaking clock, has died at the age of 59.

He died in Yogyakarta in Indonesia on Sunday after a long battle with illness and was cremated yesterday.

Mr Peach started his career at the ABC in Adelaide in the 1960s.

His sister, Jan Park, says it was his wish to be laid to rest in the tropics.

The speaking clock is a telephone service by which countless Australians set their clocks with accuracy.

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