Corrie Corfield | |
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 Corrie Corfield in 2011 | |
| Born | Coriona Kear Ware Corfield 1961 (age 63–64) |
| 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 hernewsreading andcontinuity announcements onBBC Radio 4.
She was born 1961 inOxford. Raised nearStratford-upon-Avon, Corfield was educated atStratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls, where she becameHead Girl.[1] She then read English and Drama atGoldsmiths, University of London[2]
She joined the BBC as a studio manager in 1983[3] with theWorld Service.[2] In 1987 she worked at the newBBC 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 inSouth Africa, where she worked atRadio 702. She also worked as a producer for theCanadian Broadcasting Corporation.[citation needed] She returned to Radio 4 in 1995.
Over a period from late 2010, with colleagueKathy 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 aRadio Times poll of the top voices on UK radio.[5]
She read theSix O'Clock News for the last time on BBC Radio 4 on 23 February 2021.[6]
