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Charlotte Green

For other people named Charlotte Green, seeCharlotte Green (disambiguation).

Charlotte Green(born 4 May 1956)[1]is a British radio broadcaster and a formercontinuityannouncer and news reader forBBC Radio 4.

Charlotte Green
Born(1956-05-04)4 May 1956(age 68)
NationalityBritish
EducationHaberdashers' Aske's School for Girls
Alma materUniversity of Kent
Occupation(s)Radio newsreader, announcer and presenter
Years active1978–
EmployerBBC Radio

After 1988 she specialised in news reading, including reading the news on the Radio 4 breakfastTodayprogramme, and reading news items onThe News Quiz.[2]The Daily Telegraphdescribed her as "the supreme Radio 4 announcer whose warm yet slightly formal tones were once voted the nation's favourite".[3]Green left Radio 4 in January 2013,[4]and currently reads the classified football results on BBCRadio 5 Liveand theWorld ServiceSports Report,succeedingJames Alexander Gordon.[5]Her autobiographyThe News is Readwas published by The Robson Press in 2014.

Early life

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Green was educated at the independentHaberdashers' Aske's School for GirlsinElstree,followed by theUniversity of Kent,where she gained a first-classBAin English and American Literature[6]and was involved in university radio,[7]before joining the BBC as a studio manager in 1978[4]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."[8]

Broadcasting

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After reading out letters forPMandYou and Yours[7]she became acontinuity announcerin 1985,[9]and then a newsreader in 1988.[2]She was a regular newsreader for theTodayprogramme and the comedy programmeThe News Quiz,[2]and she has worked onPMand theShipping Forecast.From 29 October 2005, she joinedChris Evans's Saturday afternoon show onRadio 2to read phone numbers and announcements.[10]

Her voice is a marvel, something to make one feel safe and secure, like being tucked up in bed with a hot water bottle.

—David Jewell,BJGP[11]

She was voted the "Most Attractive Female Voice on National Radio" in a poll by the BBC'sRadio Timespublication in 2002.[12][13]Green has acknowledged the reliance lonely listeners place in her; her habit of wishing listeners "a peaceful night" led many to send her letters.[3]

In addition to newsreading, Green has been a presenter, including for a programme on church music, a classical music concert series, and a series onWorld Servicenews bulletins.[8]She presentedNotes & QuerieswithClive Andersonon television.[7]

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.[14]

She played herself ina 2005 radio episodeofThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,[15]and again played herself in 2008 inSimon Brett's radio detective dramaCharles Paris.[16]She has been impersonated byJan Ravensreading out a double-entendres-filled shipping forecast on the BBC radio comedy showDead Ringers.[10]She signed a public letter of protest to the BBC Trust regarding cuts to the radio news service in 2007.[17]

Green has on occasions attracted some attention for inopportune giggling during on-air broadcasts.[3][7]In March 2008, while announcing the death of American film and television writerAbby Mann,Green laughed after what is believed to bethe world's earliest recording,played during the preceding item, was described off-air as sounding like "a bee trapped in a bottle".[18][19]

In a 2012 interview she named the fall of theBerlin Wallas the 'biggest' story that she'd ever read the news for.[20]Green, and her colleagueHarriet Cass,left Radio 4, having opted forvoluntary redundancyowing to reorganisation.[21][22]Green's final news bulletin[23]was the 6 o'clock news on Friday 18 January 2013.[24]

Green broadcast onClassic FMbetween April 2013 and December 2018 presentingCharlotte Green's Great Composers.[25][26]A keen supporter ofTottenham Hotspur FC,in August 2013 it was announced that Green will followJames Alexander Gordonas the permanent announcer ofSports Report,the Saturday football results programme, onBBC Radio 5 Live.Green's new role, the first ever woman appointed to the post, began on 28 September 2013.[27]

From July 2015, Green was a reader on the BBC Radio 4 panel gameQuote... Unquote[28]and featured on the programme's last edition in December 2021.[29]

Personal life

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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.[2]

Bibliography

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  • Green, Charlotte (2007). "8: How to present a talk". In George Martin Hall (ed.).How to present at meetings(2 ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 51–4.ISBN978-1-4051-3985-4.
  • Green, Charlotte (2014).The News is Read.The Robson Press.ISBN978-1-84954-691-1.

Filmography

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References

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  1. ^"Weekend birthdays".The Guardian.4 May 2014. p. 53.
  2. ^abcd"Charlotte Green".BBC.Archived fromthe originalon 20 February 2012.
  3. ^abcElmes, Simon (29 September 2007)."Meet the disembodied friends of BBC Radio 4".The Daily Telegraph.London.Retrieved28 March2008.
  4. ^abDixon, Hayley (18 January 2013)."Charlotte Green leaves the BBC after 25 years".The Daily Telegraph.London.
  5. ^"Charlotte Green replaces James Alexander Gordon on BBC Radio".BBC News.6 August 2013. Archived fromthe originalon 7 August 2015.Retrieved6 August2013.
  6. ^Sherwin, Adam (6 August 2013)."Charlotte Green becomes first female voice of BBC Saturday football scores".The Independent.
  7. ^abcdCarter, Meg (31 March 1997)."Heard and not seen".The Independent.Retrieved7 December2010.
  8. ^ab"Charlotte Green".BBC.24 February 2004.Retrieved7 December2010.
  9. ^Green, Charlotte (2014).The News is Read.The Robson Press. p. 116.ISBN978-1849546911.
  10. ^abKirby, Terry (5 May 2006)."Good faces for radio: Unmasking the broadcasters".The Independent.London.Retrieved7 December2010.
  11. ^Jewell, David (1 November 2007)."Happy 40th birthday BBC Radio".British Journal of General Practice.57(544).Royal College of General Practitioners:925.doi:10.3399/096016407782318044.PMC2169327.
  12. ^"Terry Wogan and Charlotte Green voted most attractive voices on national radio".BBC Press Office.22 January 2002.
  13. ^Akbar, Arifa (22 January 2002)."Newsreaders beat well-known 'faces' of radio in poll of most popular voices".The Independent.Retrieved7 December2010.
  14. ^Pointon, Graham (30 December 2007)."As Time Goes By".Linguism.co.uk.Retrieved22 October2017.
  15. ^Adams, Douglas; Maggs, Dirk; Hyman, Bruce; Chattwell, Helen (2005).The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio scripts: the tertiary, quandary and quintessential phases.Pan Macmillan. p. 246.ISBN0-330-43510-8.
  16. ^Reynolds, Gillian (6 December 2008)."The singular charms of a louche sleuth".The Daily Telegraph.London.Retrieved7 December2010.
  17. ^Plunkett, John (11 October 2007)."Radio 4 newsreaders join protest".The Guardian.London.Retrieved7 December2010.
  18. ^Sherwin, Adam (29 March 2008)."BBC Radio 4's Charlotte Green gets a fit of the giggles".The Times.London. Archived fromthe originalon 15 June 2011.Retrieved4 September2012.
  19. ^"Old audio causes hilarity. An ancient audio recording gave BBC Radio 4 news reader Charlotte Green a fit of the giggles live on air".BBC News.28 March 2008.(RealPlayer)
  20. ^"Five Minutes with Charlotte Green".BBC.9 June 2012.
  21. ^"Charlotte Green and Harriet Cass to leave BBC Radio 4".BBC News.5 September 2012.Retrieved5 September2012.
  22. ^Singh, Anita (5 September 2012)."Radio 4's Charlotte Green and Harriet Cass say goodbye".The Daily Telegraph.London.
  23. ^"BBC Radio 4 6 o'clock news".BBC.18 January 2013.
  24. ^"BBC Radio 4 newsreader Charlotte Green retires".BBC.18 January 2013.
  25. ^Brown, Maggie (15 March 2013)."BBC Radio 4's Charlotte Green to join Classic FM".The Guardian.London.
  26. ^"Alex James & Charlotte Green to leave Classic FM".Radio Today. 2 December 2018.Retrieved21 January2018.
  27. ^Halliday, Josh (6 August 2013)."BBC's Charlotte Green to read classified football results".The Guardian.London.
  28. ^"BBC Radio 4 - Quote... Unquote, 16/10/2017".
  29. ^Butter, Susannah (9 January 2022)."Quote... Unquote's Nigel Rees: why I quit the BBC after 46 years".The Sunday Times.Retrieved9 January2022.
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