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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

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

After 1988 she specialised in news reading, including reading the news on 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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

References[edit]

  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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