Charlotte Smith is a freelance journalist and broadcaster who specialises in farming, food and rural affairs. She currently presents BBC1’s Countryfile and BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today.
Charlotte grew up in rural Leicestershire where she became a teenage volunteer for her local radio station before joining the BBC as a local radio trainee reporter – which gave her lots of experience and bad shorthand. She worked as a news reporter and producer in both TV and radio, was a sports reporter for regional TV, a consumer reporter for daytime TV and part of the launch team for BBC 5 Live.
A conversation in a lift led to her joining the BBC’s rural affairs team, initially for a week, but she has now been there for more than twenty years.
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