Thomas John Sandars (born February 1976, St. Marylebone, London) is a continuity announcer for BBC Radio 4 and a newsreader for the BBC World Service.[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, followed by the University of Reading, where he studied Typography and Graphic Communication. In 1995 he was the editor of the student union newspaper at Reading, Spark. He is married to Kate.

Career

He started at Radio Shropshire in 1998, moving to BBC WM. He was a presenter on Midlands Today and was also their political reporter for The Midlands at Westminster.

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 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 He is also an arts correspondent and can be heard on Radio 4 political programmes.

On the 9 April 2021, Sandars' voice was heard breaking into all BBC Radio programmes to announce the death of Prince Philip.[3]

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. ↑ "Audio: Radio stations enter OBIT mode for Prince Philip". 9 April 2021.

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