Sue Carpenter

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Sue Carpenter
Nationality British
Occupation Television presenter
Website
http://wn.com/sue_carpenter

Sue Carpenter is a former United Kingdom newsreader and television presenter. Born on May 17, 1956 in London, she graduated in English Literature and Icelandic at King's College London in 1977.[1]

After presenting regional BBC news programme Points West, Carpenter was a newsreader on the BBC's Breakfast Time from 1985 to 1986.[2][3][4] She later joined ITN, presenting many of their main bulletins, usually during the daytime and the early evening news.[5]

Her name is frequently mentioned in the British television comedy programme series Bottom, starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, and in one episode a signed photo of her is portrayed as a prize in a game of Poker.

Carpenter continues to present Transworld Sport on Channel Four in voice only.[6]

References Cited

  1. ↑ Internet Movie Database: Biography for Sue Carpenter, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1594860/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm#trivia, accessed 16 Nov 2013.
  2. ↑ "Points West through the ages", BBC, retrieved 2011-04-22
  3. ↑ Jones, Ian (2003) Morning glory: a history of British Breakfast Television, Kelly Publications, ISBN 978-1-903053-20-1, p. 86
  4. ↑ Internet Movie Database: Sue Carpenter, Actress, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1594860/, accessed 16 Nov 2013.
  5. ↑ World News, Inc.: Sue Carpenter, http://wn.com/sue_carpenter, http://wn.com/sue_carpenter/interviews, accessed 17 November 2013.
  6. ↑ "TV ARK - Presenters". Rob Frowen. Archived from the original on 2012-07-22. Retrieved 2011-04-12. 
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