Corrie Corfield
Corrie Corfield | |
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 Corrie Corfield in 2011 | |
| Born | Coriona Kear Ware Corfield 1961 (age 62–63) |
| Education | 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
[edit]She was born 1961 in Oxford. Raised near Stratford-upon-Avon, Corfield was educated at Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls, where she became Head Girl.[1] She then read English and Drama at Goldsmiths, University of London[2]
Broadcasting career
[edit]She joined the BBC as a studio manager in 1983[3] with the World Service.[2] In 1987 she worked at the new BBC 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 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.[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
[edit]- ^ "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
