Charlotte Smith (broadcaster)

Charlotte Smith (born 1964, Leicestershire) is one of two main presenters of BBC Radio 4's Farming Today.

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Early life

She grew up in Quorn, Leicestershire, the ancestral home of British fox hunting. Fox-hunting was much discussed on Farming Today. She volunteered on BBC Radio Leicester.

Career

BBC

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

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 she 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.[1]

Personal life

She has two children.

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