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Charlotte Smith (broadcaster)

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Charlotte Victoria Smith (born 1964, Leicester, England[citation needed]) is one of two main presenters of BBC Radio 4's Farming Today.

Early life

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Smith grew up in Quorn, Leicestershire, the ancestral home of British fox hunting. She attended Loughborough High School, where she was head girl.[citation needed] She studied English and Drama at the University of Kent from 1983–86.[1]

She volunteered on BBC Radio Leicester.

Career

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Smith was put on the BBC's Local Radio Reporters Scheme, then toured the local radio stations of Sussex, Cumbria and Devon. She then returned to Radio Leicester as a news reporter. At Radio Leicester she worked with Julian Worricker.

She worked on BBC national radio, on The World Tonight. More locally to Leicestershire, she became a reporter and sports presenter on East Midlands Today. Returning to national radio on BBC 5 Live, she was a producer, reporter and presenter.

Prior to Farming Today Smith worked as a reporter for You and Yours, the lunch-time consumer programme on Radio 4. She has also since been a television reporter on BBC1's Countryfile, until 2009,[2] and returned as an occasional relief reporter from 2014.

Personal life

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She has two children. She has a younger brother, Jeremy Smith.

References

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Video clips

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