Corrie Corfield
English radio broadcaster and producer
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Coriona Kear Ware Corfield is a radio broadcaster and producer known especially for her newsreading and continuity announcements on BBC Radio 4.
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Corrie Corfield in 2011 | |
| Born | Coriona Kear Ware Corfield 1961 (age 64–65) |
| Education | Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls |
| Alma mater | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Occupations | Continuity announcer and newsreader |
| Employer | BBC |
Early life and education
She was born 1961 in Oxford. She was raised near Stratford-upon-Avon, and educated at Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls, where she became Head Girl.[1] When at the school, the school was at risk of going comprehensive. She gained A-levels in English and History, with an A-grade in Geography, in 1979.[2]
She then read English and Drama at Goldsmiths, University of London[3]
Her brother Cosmo attended the nearby King Edward school.[4] In the mid-1980s her brother studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Broadcasting career
She joined the BBC as a studio manager in 1983[5] with the World Service.[3] In 1987 she worked at the new BBC 648,[3] 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.[citation needed] She returned to Radio 4 in 1995.
Over a period from late 2010, with colleague Kathy Clugston, Corfield persuaded broadcasters connected with Radio 4 to don the '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.[6] The garment has since been sold.
In 2016, she placed seventh in a Radio Times poll of the top voices on UK radio.[7]
She read the Six O'Clock News for the last time on BBC Radio 4 on 23 February 2021.[8]
