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Corrie Corfield
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| Born | Coriona Kear Ware Corfield 1962 (age 56–57) Oxford, England |
| Education | Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls |
| Alma mater | Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Occupation | Continuity announcer and newsreader |
| Employer | BBC |
Coriona Kear Ware Corfield (born 1961 in Oxford) is a BBC Radio 4 continuity announcer and newsreader.[1]
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 first joined the BBC as a studio manager in 1983[citation needed] 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.[3] The garment has since been sold.
References
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^ "Corrie Corfield (Head Girl 1978-1979)" (PDF). Grapevine: The Newsletter of the Shottery Alumnae Society. Autumn 2012. p. 13.
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^ Corrie Corfield "Even the stars of Radio 4 have succumbed to the Slanket", Daily Telegraph, 9 December 2011
External links
- Corrie Corfield BBC Radio 4
- Slanket of Con
Independent September 2003
Corrie Corfield on Twitter
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