After a few months in the British Forces Broadcasting Service in Aden, South Arabia, Peter Baxter joined BBC Radio Outside Broadcasts in September 1965.

He worked on the radio production side of the 1966 Football World Cup and shortly after that first worked on Test Match Special as production assistant for the last Test Match of 1966 at the Oval.

First broadcasts – reading the English football results – in Dutch – for Radio Hilversum: 1969-1972

Appointed Cricket Producer for the start of the 1973 season.

Also Rugby Union producer 1974 – 1982 and Producer of the University Boat Race 1980-1990.

Worked as producer on three royal weddings and two royal funerals, as well as many other state events.

First England cricket tour as producer/reporter 1981/2 to India and Sri Lanka – Subsequently broadcast on and produced radio coverage of Test Matches from all ten Test-playing countries over the next 25 years.

Produced BBC Radio’s coverage of nearly 400 Test Matches (commentating on about twenty of them) and all nine Cricket World Cups.

Books
‘Test Match Special’ 1981, ‘Test Match Special 2’ 1983, Test Match Special 3 1985, ‘From Brisbane to Karachi’ 1988, ‘From Arlott to Aggers’ 1997, ‘Test Match Special 50 Not Out’ 2007 – all as editor and main writer.

‘The Ashes – Highlights since 1948’ 1989 and ‘England v West Indies – Highlights since 1948’ 1991 – with Peter Hayter.
‘Views From the Boundary’ 1990 and ‘More Views From the Boundary’ 1993 – with Brian Johnston.

‘Cricket’s Big Day Out’ 1998, ‘World Cup – Cricket’s Clash of the Titans’ 1999, ‘Cricket’s Greatest Battles’ 2000

Retired from the BBC 2007, following the fiftieth anniversary of Test Match Special.