Corrie Corfield
Corrie Kear Ware Corfield (born 1961 in Oxford) is a BBC Radio 4 continuity announcer and newsreader.
Raised near Stratford-upon-Avon, Corfield was educated at Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls, where she became Head Girl, and Goldsmiths, University of London, reading English and Drama.
She first joined the BBC as a studio manager in 1983 with the World Service and read the news on Radio 4 from 1988. In 1987 she worked at the new BBC 648, and also became a newsreader for the World Service.
Between 1991 and 1995 she worked in South Africa, where she worked at Radio 702 and also as a producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She returned to Radio 4 in 1995. From late 2010, with colleague Kathy Clugston, Corfield has 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.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Corrie Corfield "Even the stars of Radio 4 have succumbed to the Slanket", Daily Telegraph, 9 December 2011
[edit] External links
- Slanket of Con
- Corrie Corfield, BBC Radio 4 site
- Corrie Corfield at the Internet Movie Database
- Independent September 2003
- Corrie Corfield on Twitter
