Anne-Marie Minhall is an English radio presenter who works for Classic FM. She presents the weekday afternoon show from 1 pm to 4 pm.

Early life and education

Minhall was born in London and raised in a

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated ''Notts.'') is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. The county is bordered by South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. Th ...

village. She attended Clarendon College in Nottingham.

Career

Her broadcasting career started by volunteering at Radio Trent Careline and then becoming a newsreader at

Trent FM Trent FM was an Independent Local Radio station which broadcast to Nottinghamshire. The station merged with two other East Midlands stations, Leicester Sound and Ram FM to form Capital FM East Midlands (part of Global's Capital FM Network) on ...

. She presented the late-night show on the opening night of East Midlands regional station

GEM-AM Solid Gold GEM AM (later Classic Gold GEM-AM) was an Independent Local Radio station, broadcasting to much of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland and East Staffordshire from studios in Nottingham, and later Dunstable, Bedfordshire ...

. She moved to

Independent Radio News Independent Radio News provides a service of news bulletins, audio and copy to commercial radio stations in the United Kingdom and beyond. The managing director, Tim Molloy, succeeded long-term MD John Perkins in November 2009. Perkins had been ...

, in 1994.

Classic FM

Minhall joined Classic FM in 1996, four years after its launch, as a regular newsreader and as the main presenter of the weekly arts and culture show, ''The Guest List'', which she hosted for just over three years. She has remained with the station ever since, and her work has included the Great Composers series featuring biographies and examples of music, and work as the news editor for Classic FM. In 2014 she became the weekday afternoon presenter, with a program consisting of ''Classic FM Requests'' between 12 noon to 2 pm followed by her own show from 2 pm to 4 pm which includes the "Hall of Fame 3 at 3", a choice of three items from the

Classic FM Hall of Fame The Classic FM Hall of Fame is an annual compilation of the 300 most popular classical works as polled by listeners of Classic FM through a public vote. With more than 200,000 voters, each choosing their three favourites in order of preference, ...

. She also presents two Christmas editions of ''Classic FM Requests'', which are aired on Christmas Eve afternoon and on Christmas morning. In 2018 it was reported that her show attracted 2.7 million listeners every week, out of the channel's 5.7 million weekly listeners.

Other work

Minhall presented the

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) is a British orchestra based in Birmingham, England. It is the resident orchestra at Symphony Hall, Birmingham in Birmingham, which has been its principal performance venue since 1991. Its adminis ...

's "Spring Classics in Reading" in 2017 and

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an English orchestra, founded in 1893 and originally based in Bournemouth. With a remit to serve the South and South West of England, the BSO is administratively based in the adjacent town of Poole, s ...

's "Classical Extravaganza" in 2021 in

Poole Poole () is a coastal town and seaport on the south coast of England in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority area in Dorset, England. The town is east of Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester and adjoins Bournemouth to the east ...

. She has also worked as a

voice-over artist Voice acting is the art of performing a character or providing information to an audience with one's voice. Performers are often called voice actors/actresses in addition to other names. Examples of voice work include animated, off-stage, off-sc ...

for advertisers including

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and

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Honours and awards

In 2016, Minhall was ranked 10th in the ''

Radio Times ''Radio Times'' is a British weekly listings magazine devoted to television and radio programme schedules, with other features such as interviews, film reviews and lifestyle items. Founded in September 1923 by John Reith, then general manage ...

'' Favourite Radio Voice Poll (women), which that year was won by

Kirsty Young Kirsty Jackson Young (born 23 November 1968) is a Scottish television and radio presenter. From 2006 to 2018 she was the main presenter of BBC Radio 4's ''Desert Island Discs''. She presented ''Crimewatch'' on BBC One from 2008 to 2015. Early ...

References

External links

Anne-Marie Minhall on Classic FM
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