Education
She was educated at the Convent of the Cross, and the Polytechnic of Central London before moving into secretarial work for several years in London and Bournemouth.
She was educated at the Convent of the Cross, and the Polytechnic of Central London before moving into secretarial work for several years in London and Bournemouth.
She is described by Sir Terry Wogan as "Fran Godfrey – Traffic Totty and Mimi (Maine, me, me, me, me).." Godfrey began contributing to Wake Up to Wogan in 1993 and made her final appearance on the show on 9 May 2008. In 1980 she approached the independent local radio station in Bournemouth – 2CR – and accepted a job as a Technical Operator. Godfrey then became Assistant to the Commercial Producer, which involved creative writing and producing.
In 1984, Godfrey began presenting, and in time presented every type of programme on the station.
She joined the British Broadcasting Corporation network in September, 1990, but rose to prominence by being part of the team for Wake Up to Wogan. Godfrey was associated with the programme for many years as one of several newsreaders who would appear on a rotation basis.
Her contemporaries in this respect being Alan Dedicoat and John Marsh. She moved from presenting the morning news in the late 2000s, but continued to present bulletins for Radio 2.
Her decision came about as the British Broadcasting Corporation made budget cuts as part of its Delivering Quality First initiative.
As part of the programme the broadcaster would reduce the number of its continuity announcers and merge the news teams for separate networks, but returned to the British Broadcasting Corporation after her voluntary redundancy leave. During her time with Wake up to Wogan Godfrey received many emails on air, including poetry which often began "I"ve fallen in love with Fran Godfrey", and tales of her "Cupboard under the stairs". Once again quoting Sir Terry:
Fran is a past President of Hospital Radio Bedside, a radio station that broadcasts to hospitals in Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch and Wimborne, United Kingdom.