Alice Arnold

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Alice Arnold : biography

1962 –

Alice Arnold (born 1962) is a British broadcaster. She was a newsreader and continuity announcer on BBC Radio 4 for more than twenty years until the end of December 2012.

Career and public profile

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Arnold gained media attention in May 2012. While returning home, stuck in traffic, she observed an empty plastic bottle being thrown from the car ahead of her and threw it back into the vehicle through an open window. On Twitter, colleague and friend Corrie Corfield said Arnold deserved a damehood for her action.

Towards the end of October 2012, the ending of Arnold’s role on Radio 4 emerged.’Media Monkey’ , The Guardian (blog), 26 October 2012 Her final shift ended early on 29 December 2012. During 2013 she is working for the BBC in a training capacity and is involved in the Expert Women’s Days at which she is coaching potential female interviewees for Today.Maggie Brown , guardian.co.uk, 18 March 2013 Arnold has suggested adopting a smile or frown while talking as appropriate to the context.Jane Martinson guardian.co.uk (The Women’s Blog), 18 March 2013

Since then she has begun to blog for The Daily TelegraphAlice Arnold , telegraph.co.uk, 21 January 2013 and to write for The Guardian. contributor page, guardian.co.uk

Personal life

Arnold was previously in a relationship with the comedienne, writer, and presenter Sandi Toksvig. She entered into a civil partnership in 2006 with the BBC presenter Clare Balding. They live in Chiswick, London.

Early life

After gaining a degree in politics from the University of Sussex, she trained as an actress at the Drama Studio in Ealing and was in the musical Evita for a year.Alison Roberts Evening Standard, 8 January 2013 She was a magistrate for ten years from the age of thirty in Tottenham.