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Authoritative but melodious voice.

Trivia

Well known voice as a newsreader on BBC Radio 4. Much imitated on the radio version of "Dead Ringers" (2002).

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.

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.

She is famous for the rare occasions on which her normally authoritative voice is overcome by a fit of the giggles while reading the news on the BBC Radio 4 "Today" programme. On one occasion this happened while reading a story about sperm whales following a report which mentioned the name Jack Tuat (pronounced "twat"). More recently, 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 a Hollywood screenwriter.

Personal Quotes

[after collapsing in giggles while reading a news story] "I'm afraid I just lost it, I was completely ambushed by the giggles."

... Charlotte Green and Terry Wogan, ...

Charlotte Green