Kathy Clugston, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetKathy Clugston
British newsreader
Date of Birth: 22-Aug-1969
Place of Birth: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Profession: news presenter
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Kathy Clugston
- Kathy Clugston (born 22 August 1969) is a Northern Irish presenter, newsreader and continuity announcer on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 Extra and the BBC World Service.Born in Belfast, Clugston attended Methodist College and then studied French and Russian at Queen's University Belfast.
- The degree course entailed a period in France and a year in Voronezh, Russia.
- While at university, she was very active in the drama society, playing leading roles in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Private Lives and Buried Child, among many others, and directed the 1952 play about Joan of Arc L'Alouette (The Lark) by Jean Anouilh.Clugston worked as a continuity announcer and transmission director at BBC Northern Ireland from 1996 to 2003, announcing for BBC One Northern Ireland, BBC Two Northern Ireland, and appearing as one of three in-vision announcers on BBC Choice Northern Ireland between 1999 and 2001.
- She also lent her voice to the BBC Northern Ireland animated comedy series The Folks on the Hill.
- Clugston has also worked for a brief period for network BBC One & BBC Two throughout early 2007 & mid-2017 Before starting at Radio 4, Clugston spent some years in Amsterdam, working as a reporter and presenter for Radio Netherlands Worldwide.
- She began working on Radio 4 in 2006, and first read evening news bulletins in 2007.
- In April 2008, she began newsreading duties on the Today programme.
- Alongside her newsreading and announcing duties, Clugston is known as "The Posh Radio 4 Lady", or "The PR4L", on Scott Mills's afternoon radio show on BBC Radio 1, reading out emails from listeners.
- More recently she took part in Scott Mills The Musical in her role of "Posh Radio 4 Lady".As well as being a ukulele player who made a documentary for Radio 4 in 2009 she came up with the idea for "Radio4minus1letter", taking a radio programme title and dropping a single letter to create a new title, while using Twitter.
- The idea led to a book, A Brief History of Tim: The World Minus One Letter: Clugston reads the latest creations on Broadcasting House.In the autumn of 2014, the Watermill Theatre, Newbury, Berkshire, staged the premier production of her musical comedy But First This: A Musical Homage to Radio 4 starring Michael Fenton Stevens as John Humphrys.
- Clugston is the female voice on the Tom Tom traffic, navigation and mapping product.
- She reads articles for the audio edition of The Economist.
- In late 2015, she began presenting The Radio 4 in Four Podcast, a weekly podcast for the channel. In April 2016, in an article in The Daily Telegraph and a programme "The Neglected Sense" on Radio Four, Clugston revealed that she has suffered since childhood from anosmia, the lack of a sense of smell.In March 2019, BBC Radio 4 confirmed that in May 2019, Clugston will replace retiring Eric Robson as chair of the popular Radio 4 series Gardeners' Question Time.
- This became effective on May 3rd.
Read more at Wikipedia