Corrie Corfield

English radio broadcaster and producer

Corrie Corfield

Corrie Corfield in 2011

Born|

Coriona Kear Ware Corfield

1961 (age 62-63)

Oxford, England

Education| Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls
Alma mater| Goldsmiths, University of London
Occupation(s)| Continuity announcer and newsreader
Employer| BBC

Corrie Corfield's voice

recorded November 2012

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

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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

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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.[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.[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

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1. ^ "Corrie Corfield (Head Girl 1978-1979)" (PDF), Grapevine: The Newsletter of the Shottery Alumnae Society: 13, Autumn 2012[permanent dead link‍]
2. ^ a b c "Good faces for radio", The Independent, 5 May 2006
3. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News - Corrie Corfield". BBC. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
4. ^ Corrie Corfield "Even the stars of Radio 4 have succumbed to the Slanket", Daily Telegraph, 9 December 2011
5. ^ Adam Sherwin (26 July 2016), Kirsty Young and Eddie Mair voted top radio voices – as Chris Evans snubbed
6. ^ Six O'Clock News, BBC, 23 February 2021

## External links

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* Corrie Corfield BBC Radio 4
* Slanket of Con
* Independent September 2003
* Corrie Corfield on Twitter