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Smith was born in 1964<ref name=Countryfile>{{cite web |last1=Franklin |first1=Lauren |title=Who is Charlotte Smith? Everything you need to know about the Countryfile presenter |url=https://www.countryfile.com/countryfile-tv-show/countryfile-presenters/who-is-charlotte-smith |website=Countryfile.com |access-date=9 November 2025 |language=en |date=3 April 2025}}</ref> and grew up in [[Quorn, Leicestershire]],<ref name=”:0″>{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 – Farming Today – Charlotte Smith |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/3Nnfpwp9CtjJj6sz5TBrZqc/charlotte-smith |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref> and has a brother.<ref name=MyLondon>{{cite web |last1=Webber |first1=Richard |last2=Mauro-Benady |first2=Rafi |title=Charlotte Smith feared she had 10 years left to live in health battle |url=https://www.mylondon.news/news/tv/bbc-countryfile-charlotte-smith-feared-22339277 |website=My London |access-date=9 November 2025 |language=en |date=27 December 2021}}</ref> She attended [[Loughborough High School]], where she was head girl.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-03-08 |title=International Women’s Day – Loughborough High School |url=https://lsf.org/high/international-womens-day/ |access-date=2024-11-15 |language=en-GB}}</ref> She studied English and Drama at the [[University of Kent]] from 1983–86.{{citation needed|date=November 2025}} |
Smith was born in 1964<ref name=Countryfile>{{cite web |last1=Franklin |first1=Lauren |title=Who is Charlotte Smith? Everything you need to know about the Countryfile presenter |url=https://www.countryfile.com/countryfile-tv-show/countryfile-presenters/who-is-charlotte-smith |website=Countryfile.com |access-date=9 November 2025 |language=en |date=3 April 2025}}</ref> and grew up in [[Quorn, Leicestershire]],<ref name=”:0″>{{Cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 – Farming Today – Charlotte Smith |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/3Nnfpwp9CtjJj6sz5TBrZqc/charlotte-smith |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref> and has a brother.<ref name=MyLondon>{{cite web |last1=Webber |first1=Richard |last2=Mauro-Benady |first2=Rafi |title=Charlotte Smith feared she had 10 years left to live in health battle |url=https://www.mylondon.news/news/tv/bbc-countryfile-charlotte-smith-feared-22339277 |website=My London |access-date=9 November 2025 |language=en |date=27 December 2021}}</ref> She attended [[Loughborough High School]], where she was head girl.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-03-08 |title=International Women’s Day – Loughborough High School |url=https://lsf.org/high/international-womens-day/ |access-date=2024-11-15 |language=en-GB}}</ref> She studied English and Drama at the [[University of Kent]] from 1983–86.{{citation needed|date=November 2025}} |
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British journalist and radio presenter
Charlotte Victoria Smith (born 1964) is one of two main presenters of BBC Radio 4‘s Farming Today.
Smith was born in 1964[1] and grew up in Quorn, Leicestershire,[2] and has a brother.[3] She attended Loughborough High School, where she was head girl.[4] She studied English and Drama at the University of Kent from 1983–86.[citation needed]
She volunteered on BBC Radio Leicester.[2]
Smith was put on the BBC’s Local Radio Reporters Scheme, then toured the local radio stations of Sussex, Cumbria and Devon. She then returned to Radio Leicester as a news reporter.[2] At Radio Leicester she worked with Julian Worricker, who would later become her colleague at BBC Radio 4.
She worked on BBC national radio, on The World Tonight. More locally to Leicestershire, she became a reporter and sports presenter on East Midlands Today. Returning to national radio on BBC Radio 5 Live, she was a producer, reporter and presenter.[2]
Prior to Farming Today Smith worked as a reporter for You and Yours, the lunch-time consumer programme on Radio 4. She has also since been a television reporter on BBC1’s Countryfile,[2] until 2009,[5] and returned as an occasional relief reporter from 2014.
She lives in London with her husband, Mike, and has two children. She was diagnosed with Lymphangioleiomyomatosis in 2010.[3]
