Corrie Corfield
Corrie Corfield | |
|---|---|
Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls | |
| Alma mater | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Occupation(s) | Continuity announcer and newsreader |
| Employer | BBC |
Coriona Kear Ware Corfield is a radio broadcaster and producer known especially for her newsreading and continuity announcements on BBC Radio 4.
Early life and education
She was born 1961 in
Broadcasting career
She joined the BBC as a studio manager in 1983BBC 648,[2] and also became a newsreader for the World Service and read the news on Radio 4 from 1988.
Between 1991 and 1995 she lived in South Africa, where she worked at Radio 702. She also worked as a producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She returned to Radio 4 in 1995.
Over a period from late 2010, with colleague
slanket of con', a garment purportedly worn by continuity announcers in the air-conditioned chill of studio 40B as they read the late night shipping bulletin, and has photographed the wearers in various comic poses.[4]
The garment has since been sold.
In 2016, she placed seventh in a Radio Times poll of the top voices on UK radio.[5]
She read the Six O'Clock News for the last time on BBC Radio 4 on 23 February 2021.[6]
References
- ^ "Corrie Corfield (Head Girl 1978-1979)" (PDF), Grapevine: The Newsletter of the Shottery Alumnae Society: 13, Autumn 2012[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b c "Good faces for radio", The Independent, 5 May 2006
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News - Corrie Corfield". BBC. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ Corrie Corfield "Even the stars of Radio 4 have succumbed to the Slanket", Daily Telegraph, 9 December 2011
- ^ Adam Sherwin (26 July 2016), Kirsty Young and Eddie Mair voted top radio voices – as Chris Evans snubbed
- ^ Six O'Clock News, BBC, 23 February 2021
