Chris Aldridge

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Chris Aldridge is a continuity announcer and newsreader for BBC Radio 4.

At Bedford College,(University of London}, he studied maths. He joined the BBC in 1985 and worked in the production and archiving departments of Radio 3, and became a newsreader at Radio 5, before becoming a Radio 4 staff announcer in 1995. During 2002, he spent a year away working in training new staff, before returning to the station as a senior announcer alongside Harriet Cass, taking over from Peter Donaldson.

He is married with two children and his hobbies include playing the piano.

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