Corrie Corfield

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

Corrie Corfield
Corrie Corfield in 2011
Born
Coriona Kear Ware Corfield

1961 (age 59–60)
Oxford, England
EducationStratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls
Alma materGoldsmiths, University of London
OccupationContinuity announcer and newsreader
EmployerBBC

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 joined the BBC as a studio manager in 1983[3] with the World Service.[1] In 1987 she worked at the new BBC 648,[1] 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.[4] The garment has since been sold.

She left her role at BBC Radio 4 News on 31 December 2020.

References
  1. "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. "BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News - Corrie Corfield". BBC. Retrieved 2019-10-26.
  4. Corrie Corfield "Even the stars of Radio 4 have succumbed to the Slanket", Daily Telegraph, 9 December 2011
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