Alice Arnold(born 1962) is a British broadcaster and journalist. She was anewsreaderandcontinuity announceronBBC Radio 4for more than twenty years until the end of December 2012. She currently works forBauer Media Audio UKhosting onMellow Magic.[2]
Alice K. Arnold | |
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| Born | 1962 (age 62–63) Esher, Surrey,England[1] |
| Occupation(s) | Broadcaster, journalist |
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Early life
editShe attended the independentClaremont Fan Court SchoolinEsher,Surrey,whereMichaela Strachanwas three years below her.[3]
After gaining a degree in politics from theUniversity of Sussex,[4]she trained as an actress at theDrama StudioinEalingand was in the musicalEvitafor a year.[5]She was amagistratefor ten years[4]from the age of thirty[5]inTottenham.[6]
Career and public profile
editArnold joined theBBCRadio Drama Company in 1988. After meetingPeter Donaldsonat a party in 1994, she joinedRadio 4's presentation team in that year. In 2004 she became a newsreader, and regularly read the afternoon and evening news on Radio 4.[citation needed]For a brief period her early appearances as a newsreader were credited as "Eva Arnold", perhaps to keep her newsreading 'persona' separate from her identity as an actor. In 2005, she featured as a news presenter inBBC TwocomedyBroken News.In June 2006, she was promoted to read the news on Radio 4'sTodayprogramme. From 2007 to 2011 she co-presented comedianJon Holmes'sshowListen Against,a parody of various programmes on Radio 4.[7]
Arnold gained media attention in May 2012.[6]While returning home, stuck in traffic, she observed an empty plastic bottle being thrown from the car ahead of her and threw it back into the vehicle through an open window. OnTwitter,colleague and friendCorrie Corfieldsaid Arnold deserved adamehoodfor her action.[8][9]
In October 2012, Arnold announced the end of her eighteen years on Radio 4.[10]Her final appearance was Saturday 29 December 2012. During 2013, she worked for the BBC in a training capacity and was involved in the Expert Women's Days where she coached potential female interviewees forToday.[11]Arnold has suggested adopting a smile or frown while talking as appropriate to the context.[12]
Since then she has written and narrated forThe Daily TelegraphandThe Guardian.[13][14]
Personal life
editArnold entered into acivil partnershipin 2006 with theBBCpresenterClare Balding.[15]They live inChiswick,London. In April 2015, the couple officially married in a private ceremony.[16]
Balding and Arnold are keen amateur golfers. Arnold wrote about the ScottishMuirfieldgolf club inThe Guardianafter it rejected proposals to admit female members: "Another argument put forward by the 'no' campaign is that not many women would want to join. Spot on. I do not want to join your snotty club. Golf is my hobby. I love it and I would like to play it where I feel welcome, not like some second-class citizen".[17]
References
edit- ^"Index entry".FreeBMD.Retrieved25 January2015.
- ^Alice Arnold's page at Mellow Magic (Rayo)
- ^Walton & Weybridge InformerThursday 14 August 1986, page 16
- ^ab"Radio 4 People — Alice Arnold".BBC. 10 February 2009.Retrieved14 March2012.
- ^abAlison Roberts"Alice Arnold: You look at men of a certain age on TV and think: 'If you were a woman, you wouldn’t be there'",Evening Standard,8 January 2013
- ^abArnold, Alice (12 May 2012)."Alice Arnold: litter, Twitter and my media storm".The Guardian.
- ^"Listen Against".Retrieved28 April2013.
Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take a satirical look back over the last week of radio
- ^Furness, Hannah (9 May 2012)."BBC newsreader is" litter crusader "after confronting lout with bottle".The Daily Telegraph.Archived fromthe originalon 10 May 2012.
- ^"Angry BBC newsreader throws rubbish back into car in traffic jam".The Evening Standard.London. 8 May 2012.
- ^"Farewell for now, but we haven't heard the last of Alice Arnold",The Guardian(blog), 26 October 2012
- ^Maggie Brown"BBC to hold Expert Women's Days in Salford, Glasgow and Cardiff",guardian.co.uk, 18 March 2013
- ^Martinson, Jane (18 March 2013)."Expert women at the BBC: is a database and training enough?".The Guardian.Retrieved25 January2015.
- ^Arnold, Alice (21 January 2013)."Alice Arnold: BBC has taken a positive step to get more women on air".The Daily Telegraph.Retrieved25 January2015.
- ^Arnold, Alice (12 May 2012)."Alice Arnold: litter, Twitter and my media storm".The Guardian.Retrieved25 January2015.
- ^France, Louise (10 December 2006)."One year of being Mr and Mr".The Observer.Retrieved14 March2012.
- ^"Clare Balding marries Alice Arnold".Hellomagazine.com.4 April 2015.Retrieved7 March2016.
- ^Arnold, Alice (20 May 2016)."I love golf, Muirfield, but I don't want to join your snotty club".The Guardian.Retrieved20 May2016.