Corrie Corfield

Corrie Corfield

Corrie Corfield in 2011
Born Coriona Kear Ware Corfield
1961 (age 5455)
Oxford, England
Education Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls
Alma mater Goldsmiths, University of London
Occupation Continuity announcer and newsreader
Employer BBC
Corrie Corfield's voice
recorded November 2012

Coriona Kear Ware Corfield (born 1961 in Oxford) is a BBC Radio 4 continuity announcer and newsreader.[1]

Raised near Stratford-upon-Avon, Corfield was educated at Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls, where she became Head Girl,[2] and at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she read English and Drama.[1]

She first joined the BBC as a studio manager in 1983 with the World Service and read the news on Radio 4 from 1988.[1] In 1987 she worked at the new BBC 648,[1] and also became a newsreader for the World Service.

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.[3] The garment has since been sold.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Good faces for radio". The Independent. 5 May 2006. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
  2. "Corrie Corfield (Head Girl 1978-1979)" (PDF). Grapevine: The Newsletter of the Shottery Alumnae Society. Autumn 2012. p. 13.
  3. Corrie Corfield "Even the stars of Radio 4 have succumbed to the Slanket", Daily Telegraph, 9 December 2011

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