Charlotte Green
Template:Short description Template:Other people Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Charlotte Green (born 4 May 1956)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> is a British radio broadcaster and a former continuity announcer and news reader for BBC Radio 4.
After 1988, she specialised in news reading, including reading the news on the Radio 4 breakfast Today programme, and reading news items on The News Quiz.<ref name=BBC/> The Daily Telegraph described her as "the supreme Radio 4 announcer whose warm yet slightly formal tones were once voted the nation's favourite".<ref name=friends/> Green left Radio 4 in January 2013.<ref name="Dixon">Template:Cite news</ref> She read the classified football results on BBC Radio 5 Live and the World Service Sports Report from 2013 until 2022,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> succeeding James Alexander Gordon.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Her autobiography The News is Read was published by The Robson Press in 2014.
Early life
Green was educated at the independent Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls in Elstree, followed by the University of Kent, where she gained a first-class BA in English and American Literature<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and was involved in university radio,<ref name=heard/> before joining the BBC as a studio manager in 1978<ref name="Dixon"/> at the World Service. She has said that "I wanted to be an actress, but I decided there were too many actresses around, so I joined the BBC."<ref name=radionews/>
Broadcasting
After reading out letters for PM and You and Yours,<ref name=heard/> she became a continuity announcer in 1985,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and then a newsreader in 1988.<ref name=BBC/> She was a regular newsreader for the Today programme and the comedy programme The News Quiz.<ref name=BBC/> She also worked on PM and the Shipping Forecast. From 29 October 2005, she joined Chris Evans's Saturday afternoon show on Radio 2 to read phone numbers and announcements.<ref name=faces/> Template:Quote box In 2022, Green was voted the "Most Attractive Female Voice on National Radio" in a poll by the BBC's Radio Times publication.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She has acknowledged the reliance that lonely listeners place in her; her habit of wishing listeners "a peaceful night" led many to send her letters.<ref name=friends>Template:Cite news</ref>
In addition to newsreading, Green has been a presenter, including for a programme on church music, a classical music concert series, and a series on World Service news bulletins.<ref name=radionews>Template:Cite web</ref> She presented Notes & Queries with Clive Anderson on television.<ref name=heard/>
Between 2003 and 2006, Green was unique in her pronunciation of the years between 2001 and 2009. She adopted the 'twenty-oh' method instead of 'two-thousand-and'. This was said to have sparked so many complaints that she reverted to 'two-thousand-and' in 2006.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
She played herself in a 2005 radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and again played herself in 2008 in Simon Brett's radio detective drama Charles Paris.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She has been impersonated by Jan Ravens reading out a double-entendres-filled shipping forecast on the BBC radio comedy show Dead Ringers.<ref name=faces>Template:Cite news</ref> She signed a public letter of protest to the BBC Trust regarding cuts to the radio news service in 2007.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Green has on occasions attracted some attention for inopportune giggling during on-air broadcasts.<ref name=friends/><ref name=heard>Template:Cite news</ref> In March 2008, while announcing the death of American film and television writer Abby Mann, Green laughed after what is believed to be the world's earliest recording, played during the preceding item, was described off-air as sounding like "a bee trapped in a bottle".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news (RealPlayer)</ref>
In a 2012 interview, she named the fall of the Berlin Wall as the 'biggest' story that she'd ever read the news for.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Green, and her colleague Harriet Cass, left Radio 4, having opted for voluntary redundancy owing to reorganisation.<ref name="BBCa">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Green's final news bulletin<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> was the six o'clock news on Friday 18 January 2013.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Green broadcast on Classic FM between April 2013 and December 2018 presenting Charlotte Green's Great Composers.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> A keen supporter of Tottenham Hotspur FC, in August 2013 it was announced that Green will follow James Alexander Gordon as the permanent announcer of Sports Report, the Saturday football results programme, on BBC Radio 5 Live. Green's new role, the first ever woman appointed to the post, began on 28 September 2013.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
From July 2015, Green was a reader on the BBC Radio 4 panel game Quote... Unquote<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and featured on the programme's last edition in December 2021.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Personal life
Green is an avid reader who enjoys going to the theatre, concerts and art exhibitions. She is also a Trustee of the University of Kent Development Fund.<ref name=BBC>Template:Cite web</ref>
Bibliography
Filmography
- Page Eight (2011)
References
External links
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