Corrie Corfield

Coriona Kear Ware Corfield is a radio broadcaster and producer known especially for her newsreading and continuity announcements on BBC Radio 4.

Corrie Corfield
Corrie Corfield in 2011
Born	Coriona Kear Ware Corfield 1961 (age 63–64) Oxford, England
Education	Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls
Alma mater	Goldsmiths, University of London
Occupation(s)	Continuity announcer and newsreader
Employer	BBC

Early life and education

She was born 1961 in Oxford. Raised near Stratford-upon-Avon, Corfield was educated at Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls, where she became Head Girl.^[1] She then read English and Drama at Goldsmiths, University of London^[2]

Broadcasting career

She joined the BBC as a studio manager in 1983^[3] with the World Service.^[2] In 1987 she worked at the new BBC 648,^[2] and also became a newsreader for the World Service and read the news on Radio 4 from 1988.

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.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[4] The garment has since been sold.

In 2016, she placed seventh in a Radio Times poll of the top voices on UK radio.^[5]

She read the Six O'Clock News for the last time on BBC Radio 4 on 23 February 2021.^[6]