Corrie Corfield
English radio broadcaster and producer
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Corrie Corfield is a radio broadcaster and producer known especially for her newsreading and continuity announcements on BBC Radio 4.
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| Born | Corrie 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, raised near Stratford-upon-Avon and educated at Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls.
She then read English and Drama at Goldsmiths, University of London[1]
Broadcasting career
She joined the BBC as a studio manager in 1983[2] with the World Service.[1] In 1987 she worked at the new BBC 648,[1] 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.[3] The garment was sold in a raffle for Comic Relief in 2012.
In 2016, she placed seventh in a Radio Times poll of the top voices on UK radio.[4]
She read the Six O'Clock News for the last time on BBC Radio 4 on 23 February 2021.[5]
