Andrew Crawford
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| Andrew Crawford | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1961 |
| 🎓 Alma mater | St John's College, Oxford |
| 💼 Occupation | Continuity announcer and newsreader |
| 📆 Years active | 1988-2000 and then from 2022 |
| 👔 Employer | BBC Radio 4 |
| Twitter= | |
Andrew Crawford is a continuity announcer and newsreader for BBC Radio 4.[1]
Career[edit]
He joined the BBC as a Studio Manager in 1985[2][3]and became one of the first announcers of the BBC 648 service to Europe when it launched in 1986[4], alongside Catriona Young and Corrie Corfield. He spent time in 1987 as a BBC World Service announcer, before joining BBC Radio 4 as an announcer and newsreader in 1988.
In 1992, The Daily Telegraph featured an article about Crawford working on Christmas Day that year.[5]
The radio critic Paul Donovan mentions Crawford, who was reading the news on the morning Donovan visited the studio while writing his book on the history of the Today Programme[6]”. In 1998, in his Radio Waves column in The Sunday Times magazine[7], Donovan wrote: "Peter Donaldson, Brian Perkins, Charlotte Green and Andrew Crawford are all impeccable announcers.”
On the morning of 30 August, 1997, Crawford broke the news to the combined BBC UK Radio audience that Diana, Princess of Wales had died, as newsreader on the special programme hosted by James Naughtie and Peter Allen.[8]
Crawford has long been the announcer on I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue. He appeared live to introduce the 50th anniversary editions of the show at the Royal Albert Hall in July 2022. He provided manic announcements for Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris’s early nineties news pastiche, ‘On The Hour . In 2006, he was part of the cast of ‘One’, David Quantick’s series of comedy radio monologues[9].
When Test Match Special transferred to Radio 4 Longwave in the 1990’s, Crawford was one of the announcers who manned the studio in London that kept TMS on air, filling the lunch and teatime gaps and sometimes joining in with the practical jokes. The commentator Jonathon Agnew recalls Crawford faxing a spoof shipping forecast intended only for private consumption to the commentary box. It ended up in the hands of Henry Blofeld and had to be snatched away when he started to read it out on air, unaware of the NSFW content he was about to broadcast. [10]
In 2000, Crawford left Radio 4 but stayed at the BBC, working on projects and in management.[11] He returned to Radio 4 in 2022 as a freelance announcer and newsreader.[12]
References[edit]
- ↑ "What it's like being a Radio 4 newsreader". Radio Times.
- ↑ "LinkedIn".
- ↑ "Old SMs Website". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Random Radio Jottings: And Now On Radio 4 - Part 1". 5 September 2017.
- ↑ "Daily Telegraph". 12 December 1992.
- ↑ Donovan, Paul (1997). All Our Todays (1st ed.). UK: Jonathan Cape. pp. 182–186. ISBN 0-224-04358-7. Search this book on
- ↑ Donovan, Paul (17 May 1998). "Radio Waves column". Sunday Times Magazine.
- ↑ Barnard, Peter (1999). We Interrupt This Programme (1st ed.). BBC Worldwide Ltd. pp. Accompanying CD Track 61. ISBN 0 563 55137 2. Search this book on
- ↑ "Internet Archive". Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Agnew, Jonathan (2010). Thanks Johnners. Blue Door. pp. 115–116. ISBN 978-0-00-734309-6. Search this book on
- ↑ "LinkedIn".
- ↑ "Random Radio Jottings: And Now On Radio 4 - Part 1". 5 September 2017.
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