Tom Sandars

Thomas John Sandars is a continuity announcer, newsreader and news presenter for BBC Radio 4.[1]

Education

From 1989 to 1994, Sandars was educated at The Oratory School,[2] a Roman Catholic boarding independent school for boys in the village of Woodcote in Oxfordshire. He was active in Combined Cadet Force, in rowing and on stage. He was a joint founding editor of The Buzz school magazine and took A-levels in Art, Economics and English Literature.[3]

He then went to the University of Reading, where he studied Typography and Graphic Communication. In 1995 he was the editor of the student union newspaper at Reading, The Spark.[3]

Career

He started at Radio Shropshire[3] in 1998, moving to BBC WM. He was a presenter on Midlands Today and was also their political reporter for The Midlands at Westminster. He then moved to Sky News.[3]

Sandars was then a freelance newsreader for the BBC World Service. He has been a BBC Radio 4 continuity announcer since June 2017 and a BBC Radio 4 newsreader since May 2018. He was a newsreader and presenter for BBC Radio 5 Live for ten years from 2003. Between 2007 and 2017 he read news bulletins for BBC Radio 2 and for Radio 6 Music. Prior to 2017, he was also an arts correspondent;[4] he can also be heard on Radio 4 political programmes.[5]

On the 9 April 2021, Sandars' voice was heard breaking into all BBC Radio programmes to announce the death of Prince Philip.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Past Networkers". Edinburgh International Television Festival. Archived from the original on 14 April 2011.
  2. ^ Notable Old Oratorians (1972–2009) - In the Arts and Media - Tom Sanders Archived 9 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine Publisher: The Oratory School Society, Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Retrieved: 1 May 2013.
  3. ^ a b c d "Forty Under Forty by The Oratory School Society - Issuu". issuu.com. 8 April 2015. p. 5.
  4. ^ Sandars, Tom. "Tom Sandars | LinkedIn". Retrieved 15 November 2024.
  5. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Today in Parliament, Peers call for a cut in their numbers". BBC. 5 December 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
  6. ^ "Audio: Radio stations enter OBIT mode for Prince Philip". 9 April 2021.

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