Corrie Corfield
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Corrie Corfield in 2011
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| Born | Coriona Kear Ware Corfield 1961 (age 63–64) Oxford, England |
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| Education | Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls | ||
| Alma mater | Goldsmiths, University of London | ||
| Occupation | Continuity announcer and newsreader | ||
| Employer | BBC | ||
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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 and read the news on Radio 4 from 1988.[1] In 1987 she worked at the new BBC 648,[1] and also became a newsreader for the World Service.
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.
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- 1961 births
- Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London
- BBC newsreaders and journalists
- BBC World Service
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- Living people
- People educated at Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls
- People from Stratford-upon-Avon
- Radio and television announcers
