Charlotte Green

For other people named Charlotte Green, see Charlotte Green (disambiguation).

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 former continuity announcer and news reader for BBC Radio 4.

After 1988 she specialised in news reading, including reading the news on the Radio 4 breakfast Today programme, and reading news items on The News Quiz.[2] The Daily Telegraph described 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 BBC Radio 5 Live and the World Service Sports Report, succeeding James Alexander Gordon.[5] Her autobiography The News is Read was published by The Robson Press in 2014.

  1. ^ "Weekend birthdays". The Guardian. 4 May 2014. p. 53.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference BBC was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  4. ^ Dixon, 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 from the original on 7 August 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2013.