Verity Sharp
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Verity Sharp (born 1970) is an English television and radio presenter.
Early life
Sharp grew up in Somerset.{{cite web |title=BBC Radio 3 – Late Junction – Verity Sharp |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/6019rjF08SC42SS3kQDsw8g/verity-sharp |website=BBC |accessdate=23 April 2019}} After studying at Dartington College of Arts,{{cite web |last1=Hodgkinson |first1=Will |title=Home entertainment: Verity Sharp |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/jan/18/artsfeatures2 |website=The Guardian |accessdate=23 April 2019 |date=18 January 2002}} she read music at the University of York and studied composition. During these years, she did some acting, performed music, and studied languages, including French.
Presenting career
Sharp moved to London after graduating in 1992, and began working for Radio 3 in 1993, the year she had planned to start a post-graduate degree at the Guildhall School of Music. She trained as a producer, and from 1997 regularly produced and presented Pebble Mill's Music Machine, a 15-minute music programme primarily intended for children. A year later, she was hosting the contemporary music show Hear And Now.
In 2001, the eclectic late-night music programme Late Junction, which she presented at that time in alternation with Fiona Talkington and Max Reinhardt, won her the Silver Sony Radio Academy Award for Music Broadcaster of the Year – a "very proud moment for the team after three years of very hard work". On 21 March 2013, at the end of that evening's edition of programme, she formally announced that she was to cease being one of its regular presenters in order to pursue "a few more musical dreams". She has since become a regular presenter again. Since autumn 2019 when it moved to a single weekly show, she has alternated presentation duties with Jennifer Lucy Allan.{{Cite web|date=11 September 2019|title=New regular programmes and presenters at BBC Radio 3|url=https://radiotoday.co.uk/2019/09/new-regular-programmes-and-presenters-at-bbc-radio-3/|access-date=26 September 2020|website=RadioToday|language=en-GB}}
She was also one of the presenters of The Culture Show on BBC2,{{Cite web |last=Hanley |first=Lynsey |date=24 January 2005 |title=My week: Verity Sharp, Radio and TV presenter |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3635693/My-week-Verity-Sharp-Radio-and-TV-presenter.html |access-date=25 May 2024 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}} and also presents Slow Radio on BBC Sounds.{{Cite news |last=Larson |first=Sarah |date=8 January 2019 |title=Three Excellent Podcasts to Start the New Year |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/podcast-dept/three-excellent-podcasts-to-start-the-new-year |access-date=25 May 2024 |work=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}
Music interest
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Category:Alumni of the University of York
Category:BBC Radio 3 presenters
Category:British radio presenters
Category:British women radio presenters
Category:British television presenters