Radio Career
Arnold joined the BBC Radio Drama Company in 1988. After meeting Peter Donaldson at a party in 1994, she joined Radio 4's presentation team in that year. In 2004, she became a newsreader, and now regularly reads the afternoon and evening news on Radio 4. In 2005, she featured as a news presenter in BBC Two comedy Broken News. In June 2006, she was promoted to read the news on Radio 4's Today programme. From 2007 she has co-presented comedian Jon Holmes's show Listen Against, a parody of various programmes on Radio 4. A second series of Listen Against was broadcast in November and December 2008, and a third began in September 2010. Towards the end of October 2012 it emerged that Arnold will be leaving Radio 4. On Twitter, she announced that it will be on 28 December.
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