Charlotte Smith (broadcaster)
Charlotte Victoria Smith (born 1964, Leicester, England[citation needed]) is one of two main presenters of BBC Radio 4's Farming Today.
Early life[edit]
Smith grew up in Quorn, Leicestershire, the ancestral home of British fox hunting. She attended Loughborough High School, where she was head girl.[citation needed] She studied English and Drama at the University of Kent from 1983–86.[1]
She volunteered on BBC Radio Leicester.
Career[edit]
Smith was put on the BBC's Local Radio Reporters Scheme, then toured the local radio stations of Sussex, Cumbria and Devon. She then returned to Radio Leicester as a news reporter. At Radio Leicester she worked with Julian Worricker.
She worked on BBC national radio, on The World Tonight. More locally to Leicestershire, she became a reporter and sports presenter on East Midlands Today. Returning to national radio on BBC 5 Live, she was a producer, reporter and presenter.
Prior to Farming Today Smith worked as a reporter for You and Yours, the lunch-time consumer programme on Radio 4. She has also since been a television reporter on BBC1's Countryfile, until 2009,[2] and returned as an occasional relief reporter from 2014.
Personal life[edit]
She has two children. She has a younger brother, Jeremy Smith.
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Farming Today profile Archived 2014-04-16 at the Wayback Machine
- Charlotte Smith at IMDb