Eric Baume

Eric Baume OBE was a New Zealandborn Australian based journalist, radio presenter, actor and talk show host.

Eric Baume was born Frederick Ehrenfried Baume in Auckland, New Zealand in 1900 to a father of the same name who was a lawyer and politician. Eric moved to Sydney in the early 1920s and worked for as editor for several papers. At this time he developed what was to become a lifelong addiction to gambling, which kept the family in debt for decades.

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