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

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Early life and education

She was born 1961 in

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. Raised near

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, Corfield was educated at Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls, where she became

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. She then read English and Drama at

Goldsmiths, University of London Goldsmiths, University of London, formerly Goldsmiths College, University of London, is a constituent research university of the University of London. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by ...

Broadcasting career

She joined the BBC as a studio manager in 1983 with the World Service. In 1987 she worked at the new BBC 648, 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

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, where she worked at

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. She also worked as a producer for the

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. 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. The garment has since been sold. In 2016, she placed seventh in a ''

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'' poll of the top voices on UK radio. She read the Six O'Clock News for the last time on BBC Radio 4 on 23 February 2021.

References

External links

Corrie Corfield BBC Radio 4

Slanket of Con

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Corfield, Corrie 1961 births Living people Alumni of Goldsmiths, University of London BBC newsreaders and journalists BBC World Service people BBC Radio 4 People educated at Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School for Girls People from Stratford-upon-Avon Radio and television announcers