Chris Aldridge
{{short description|British radio newsreader and announcer}}
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Chris Aldridge is a continuity announcer and newsreader for BBC Radio 4.{{Cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/radio/2018-01-22/what-its-like-being-a-radio-4-newsreader/|title=What it's like being a Radio 4 newsreader|website=Radio Times}}
Biography
He grew up in Horsham, West Sussex.{{cite web|url=https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/our-alumni/for-alumni/alumni-news/chris-aldridge-interview/|title=The Man Behind the Voice: BBC Radio 4 Senior Continuity Announcer and Bedford College Alumnus Chris Aldridge|publisher=Royal Holloway, University of London|date=3 December 2019}}
After one term studying medicine at London Hospital Medical College, Aldridge studied mathematics at Bedford College (University of London). He joined the BBC in 1985, working in the production and archiving departments of Radio 3. He became a newsreader at Radio 5, then a Radio 4 staff announcer in 1995. He spent 2002 training new staff; then returned to the station as a senior announcer alongside Harriet Cass, taking over from Peter Donaldson. He sometimes reads and presents the Six O'Clock News on BBC Radio 4.
In 2021, Chris Aldridge stepped down from his role as senior announcer but remains on Radio 4 as a freelance announcer and newsreader.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}
On 8 September 2022, Aldridge announced the death of Queen Elizabeth II on BBC Radio.
He is married with two children; his hobbies include jogging, photography and playing the piano.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/5zZq1Z413NpPlv7VJlm9H5T/chris-aldridge|title=BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News - Chris Aldridge|website=BBC}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/people/presenters/chris-aldridge BBC profile, with photo]
- [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/radio_newsroom/radio_newsreaders/1791148.stm BBC News article]
- [http://www.radiotimes.com/news/radio/2018-01-22/what-its-like-being-a-radio-4-newsreader/ What it’s like being a Radio 4 newsreader] at [http://www.radiotimes.com/ Radio Times]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928195756/http://www.oldsms.co.uk/course.php?id=138 Photo on a 1985 Radio Sound Trainee Course]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928200255/http://www.oldsms.co.uk/course.php?id=158 Photo from a 1994 Trainee Audio Assistant course]
- [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/ram/today1_paper_20050205.ram Chris reads through the morning papers in February 2005]
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Category:People educated at The College of Richard Collyer
Category:Alumni of Bedford College, London
Category:Radio and television announcers
Category:BBC newsreaders and journalists
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