Corrie Corfield
Corrie Corfield | |
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Corrie Corfield in 2011 | |
| Born | Coriona Kear Ware 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 |
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
She was born 1961 in Oxford. She was raised near Stratford-upon-Avon, and educated at Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls, where she became Head Girl.[1] When at the school, the school was at risk of going comprehensive. She gained A-levels in English and History, with an A-grade in Geography, in 1979.[2]
She then read English and Drama at Goldsmiths, University of London[3]
Her brother Cosmo attended the nearby King Edward school.[4] In the mid-1980s her brother studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Broadcasting career
She joined the BBC as a studio manager in 1983[5] with the World Service.[3] In 1987 she worked at the new BBC 648,[3] 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.[6] The garment has since been sold.
In 2016, she placed seventh in a Radio Times poll of the top voices on UK radio.[7]
She read the Six O'Clock News for the last time on BBC Radio 4 on 23 February 2021.[8]
References
- ^ "Corrie Corfield (Head Girl 1978-1979)" (PDF), Grapevine: The Newsletter of the Shottery Alumnae Society: 13, Autumn 2012
- ^ Stratford-upon-Avon Herald Friday 24 August 1979, page 4
- ^ a b c "Good faces for radio", The Independent, 5 May 2006
- ^ Stratford upon Avon Herald Friday 23 December 1977
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News - Corrie Corfield". BBC. Archived from the original on 21 December 2014. 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