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Thomas John Sandars (born February 1976, St. Marylebone, London) is one of the continuity announcers on BBC Radio 4 and newsreaders on BBC World Service radio stations.
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Education
From 1989 to 1994, Sandars was educated at The Oratory School, 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, Spark.
Career
He started at Radio Shropshire in 1998, moving to BBC WM. He was a presenter on Midlands Today, and also their political reporter for The Midlands at Westminster.
Sky
He became a newsreader and presenter for Sky News.
BBC
Sandars is a freelance newsreader for the BBC World Service. He has also been a Radio 4 continuity announcer since June 2017.
He read the news for BBC Radio 2 and Radio 6 Music between 2007 and 2017. He is also an arts correspondent and can be heard on Radio 4 political programmes. He was a newsreader/presenter for BBC Radio 5 live for ten years from 2003.