Charlotte Green (born 4 May 1956) is a British radio broadcaster. Formerly a continuity announcer and news reader for BBC Radio 4, she is now connected with Classic FM.After 1998 she specialised in news reading, including reading the news on Radio 4 breakfast Today programme, and reading news items on The News Quiz. The Daily Telegraph described her as "the supreme Radio 4 announcer whose warm yet slightly formal tones were once voted the nation's favourite". Green left Radio 4 in January 2013, and currently reads the classified football results on BBC Radio 5 Live and the World Service Sports Report, succeeding James Alexander Gordon. Her autobiography The News is Read was published by The Robson Press in 2014.
[after collapsing in giggles while reading a news story] "I'm afraid I just lost it, I was completely ambushed by the giggles."
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Fact
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She was made redundant in 2013 from her job as BBC Radio 4 continuity announcer and news reader, but she returned to radio in September that year when she took over from James Alexander Gordon as reader of the football scores on BBC Radio 5 Live.
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She is famous for the rare occasions on which her normally calm and authoritative voice is overcome by a fit of the giggles while reading the news on the BBC Radio 4 "Today" programme. On 24 March 1997 this happened while she was reading a story about sperm whales, following a report which mentioned the name Jack Tuat (pronounced "twat"). More recently, on 28 March 2008, when a very early recording from the 1860s, which one of the other presenters had just described as sounding like "bees trapped in a bottle", was played during a news story, she collapsed in giggles while reading the next item - the obituary of Hollywood screenwriter Abby Mann.
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In January 2002, she was voted the "Most Attractive Female Voice on National Radio" in a poll conducted by the BBC's Radio Times magazine.
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Reads the news clips and cuttings on Radio 4's "The News Quiz" where she is well known for trying so hard not to collapse in fits of the giggles at some of the absurd stories she has to read.
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Well known voice as a newsreader on BBC Radio 4. Much imitated on the radio version of Dead Ringers (2002).
Actress
Title
Year
Status
Character
Page Eight
2011
TV Movie
Radio Newsreader
Blessed
2008
The Shipping Forecast
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Timeshift
2014
TV Series documentary
Herself - Narrator
Saturday Sportsday
2013
TV Series
Herself
Humphrey Lyttelton: The Jazz Musicians' Jazz Musician
2008
TV Movie documentary
Herself - Narrator (voice)
Dirty War
2004
TV Movie
Herself (Radio 4 newsreader) (voice, uncredited)
The Day Britain Stopped
2003
TV Movie
Herself (Radio 4 newsreader) (voice, uncredited)
Arena
2002
TV Series documentary
Herself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Big Fat Quiz of the Year
2008
TV Special
Herself (uncredited)
Known for movies
Humphrey Lyttelton: The Jazz Musicians' Jazz Musician (2008) as Herself - Narrator
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