Former Radio 4 newsreader Charlotte Green once caused a storm in a teacup when it came to saying the number of a year on the radio. Instead of “two-thousand and six”, Radio 4 listeners got “twenty-oh-six”. So how would the honey-voiced presenter fare with the football scores?
Green, who accepted redundancy from Radio 4 in January this year, has been given a new role within the BBC, as the Radio 5 Live football results announcer on Saturday afternoons. The radio station has been seeking a replacement for James Alexander Gordon, who has announced that he is retiring from reading the scores after 40 years, and at the moment has Test Match Special’s Kevin Howells filling in.
Green hasn’t been resting her vocal chords since leaving the BBC after 34 years’ service. She’s been presenting Charlotte Green’s Great Composers for Classic FM.
And football is well within her range too. Green is a big sports fan, with a soft spot for Tottenham Hotspur — it’s amazing that her voice hasn’t gone hoarse from shouting on the terraces.
It is a historic moment in BBC sports coverage. Green will be the first woman reading out results. Perhaps she will come out with lines such as “QPR three-Chelsea Oh”.
