Sue Carpenter (born 17 May 1956 in
London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...
, England) is a United Kingdom former
newsreader and television presenter. She graduated in English Literature and Icelandic at
King's College London in 1977.
After presenting regional BBC news programme ''
Points West'', Carpenter was a newsreader on the
BBC #REDIRECT BBC
Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board exam. ...
's ''
Breakfast Time'' from 1985 to 1986.
[Points West through the ages]
, BBC #REDIRECT BBC
Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board exam. ...
, retrieved 2011-04-22[Jones, Ian (2003) ''Morning glory: a history of British Breakfast Television'', Kelly Publications, , p. 86] She later joined ITN, presenting many of their main bulletins, usually during the daytime and the early evening news.
Her name is frequently mentioned, often comedically as a figure of infatuation, in the British television comedy programme series ''
Bottom'', starring
Rik Mayall
Richard Michael Mayall (7 March 1958 – 9 June 2014) was an English actor, stand-up comedian and writer. He formed a close partnership with Ade Edmondson while they were students at Manchester University and was a pioneer of alternativ ...
and
Adrian Edmondson
Adrian Charles Edmondson (born 24 January 1957) is an English actor, comedian, musician, writer and television presenter. He was part of the alternative comedy boom in the early 1980s and had roles in the television series '' The Young Ones'' (1 ...
, and in one episode a signed photo of her is portrayed as a prize in a game of
poker
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.
, Carpenter continued to present ''
Transworld Sport
''Trans World Sport'' (TWS), originally stylised ''Transworld Sport'' (still used in some television listings and electronic programme guides) is a sports-orientated television programme produced by IMG Media in London, England. It is shown wo ...
'' on
Channel Four
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in voice only.
References
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1956 births
Living people
British television presenters
Alumni of King's College London
BBC newsreaders and journalists
ITN newsreaders and journalists