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Pick of the Year; Selected by Harriet Cass
Topic Started: Dec 28 2012, 03:17 PM (1,875 Views)
Mobson
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Christmas Day Pick of the Year....senior announcer Harriet Cass, <star> who is departing Radio 4 in the New Year, chooses her favourite moments from BBC Radio in 2012....her entire list is linked here...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pfxhz

<star> Harriet Cass is taking voluntary redundancy alongside Charlotte Green as the BBC cuts its announcing team from 12 to 10. The pair have been a fixture of the airwaves since the 1970s, introducing programmes and reading news bulletins for the Today programme.Both women said they were looking forward to new projects. <ok>

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9520403/Radio-4s-Charlotte-Green-and-Harriet-Cass-say-goodbye.html
Edited by Mobson, Dec 28 2012, 03:18 PM.
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BTW, since there's no Tom Sutcliffe Review at 7.15pm this evening on R4, the above programme is being broadcast in it's place....it's preceded by a panoply of the year's guests on Loose Ends at 6.15pm with Clive Anderson hosting a repeat of celebs like Simon Le Bon, Sir David Frost, Nile Rogers, Clare Balding and Bobby Womack!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pgq2z
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Mobson
Dec 28 2012, 03:17 PM
Harriet Cass is taking voluntary redundancy alongside Charlotte Green as the BBC cuts its announcing team from 12 to 10.
12 Jul 2013


BBC won’t employ 'posh’ voices any more, says Charlotte Green

Charlotte Green, the former Radio 4 announcer, says the BBC have consigned the Queen’s English to the past.

Her warm yet slightly formal tones led to her once being voted the “most attractive female voice on national radio”.

However, Charlotte Green says her diction means that she is now an outcast at the BBC.

“Received pronunciation, or accent-less accent, is on the wane,” she says. “The BBC’s days of employing people who sound like me are more or less over."

Green, 57, whose melodious voice was once described as “a marvel, something to make one feel safe and secure, like being tucked up in bed with a hot water bottle”, accepted voluntary redundancy from the BBC earlier this year.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/10174136/BBC-wont-employ-posh-voices-any-more-says-Charlotte-Green.html

August the 7th 2013

Charlotte Green announces she will replace James Alexander Gordon as classified football results voice


Charlotte Green has agreed to return to the BBC to replace James Alexander Gordon as the voice of Radio Five Live’s classified football results.

Former Radio Four newsreader Green accepted the challenge of tackling one of the male bastions of sports reporting barely seven months after cutting her ties completely with the corporation.

Upon taking voluntary redundancy back in January, the 57-year-old was quoted as saying: “The BBC’s days of employing people who sound like me are more or less over.”


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/10225462/Charlotte-Green-announces-she-will-replace-James-Alexander-Gordon-as-classified-football-results-voice.html
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<ok> .....she has a beautiful voice ...... which cuts no ice with the Beeb these days. >thumbsdown2> I miss her on the News Quiz though she was on something the other day.
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Charlotte Green presents Great Composers on Classic FM

Join Charlotte Green every Sunday afternoon from 3 to 5, as she explores the lives, loves and, of course, music of the famous composers.
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