BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It is broadcast on 92 - 95 MHz FM (95.80 MHz in central Scotland, and 103-104.5 MHz in parts of Wales) and 198 kHz longwave; and via DAB, satellite (FM is broadcast on Sky channel 854 and LW is broadcast on Sky channel 893), selected Cable television providers, Freeview channel 74 and the Internet.

Radio 4 announcers and newsreaders

Announcers link programmes, provide trails for coming programmes and read the Shipping Forecast. Newsreaders read hourly summaries and longer bulletins.

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Senior Announcers

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• Chris Aldridge
• Harriet Cass

Newsreaders

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• Peter Donaldson
• Charlotte Green
• Brian Perkins

Newsreaders / Continuity Announcers

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• Carolyn Brown
• Corrie Corfield
• Rory Morrison
• Susan Rae
• Alison Rooper
• Vaughan Savidge
• Neil Sleat

Newsreaders (non-Today programme) / Continuity Announcers

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• Alice Arnold
• Andrew Crawford
• Annie McKie
• David Miles
• Jane Steel

Continuity Announcers

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• Peter Jefferson
• Astley Jones
• Jim Lee
• Caroline Nichols
• Howard Phillpot
• Alan Smith
• Zebedee Soanes
• Diana Speed
• Andy Rushton (Test Match Special only)

Former staff

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• David Anderson (left to senior management, but covered during the May '05 strike)
• Pennie Latin (left 11/04)
• Patrick Muirhead (left 9/04)
• Laurie Macmillan (died 10/01)