Background
Born in London NW10, at the Central Middlesex Hospital, the fourth daughter of Edward G Cass and Ruth M Cass, Cass was educated at Queen"s College, Harley Street, an independent day school for girls in London.
Born in London NW10, at the Central Middlesex Hospital, the fourth daughter of Edward G Cass and Ruth M Cass, Cass was educated at Queen"s College, Harley Street, an independent day school for girls in London.
She joined the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1972 as a secretary, before becoming a studio manager and then announcer on Radio 4 in 1977. Later she became a sub-editor and Chief sub-editor in the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Newsroom and then worked on the Radio 4 programme Today in Parliament. In 1996, she re-joined Radio 4, after some years away from the network, and since 1998 has been working mainly as a newsreader, including on The News Quiz.
In 2003, with Chris Aldridge, she was promoted to the post of senior announcer, after Peter Donaldson stepped down.
She has been the station"s presentation editors In September, 2012, it was announced that Cass would leave the British Broadcasting Corporation, having opted for voluntary redundancy as the result of reorganisation.
She left Radio 4 on the 21st March 2013, her final broadcast being the six o"clock news bulletin. She is now a freelance broadcaster.