Susan Rae

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Susan Rae is a Scottish newsreader and continuity announcer on BBC Radio 4. She began work with D. C. Thomson newspapers in Dundee, Scotland before taking up work on BBC Radio Aberdeen. After three years there she left to work in London around 1983 as an announcer and newsreader on BBC Radio 4, where her Scottish accent proved controversial and she received hate mail. She was notable for the speed and wit with which she recovered when comedy programmes ended on a joke designed to embarrass the continuity announcer who was about to take over. Later in the decade she moved to daytime television co-presenting Open Air and continued with voiceover work when it ended.

Susan Rae began working on the BBC World Service around 2000, returning to BBC Radio 4 in 2004, although she still makes appearances on the World Service. No complaints have been heard on Feedback this time, and the presence of a Scottish announcer on BBC Radio Four was even received positively in a 2004 Spectator article by Paul Johnson.

She has done voice-overs for many Discovery Channel shows including Forensic Detectives, FBI Files, and Street Crime UK. In 2007 she presented Eastern Skies for Anglia Television.

She has two children, Rory Cargill and Finn Cargill.

Susan Rae was chatted up by Russell Brand on his radio 2 show, and told him that she did not like being referred to as 'Woman'.