Career
On 23 October 2006, to mark the British Telecom clock reaching its 70th year, a competition was launched to find the new modern voice of the Speaking Clock. Applicants were invited to leave telephone recordings of their voice, with the proceeds of each call going to Children in Need. She was the unanimous choice of a voting panel that included the clock"s previous voice, Brian Cobby, the British Broadcasting Corporation presenters Natasha Kaplinsky and Alan Dedicoat, and Sir Christopher Bland, chairman of British Telecom Group, the clock"s providers.
As the host of Children in Need, Terry Wogan launched her voice on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2.
She appeared as a "stranger" on the first United Kingdom episode of the game show Identity (broadcast on 27 August 2007), with the identity "Speaking Clock", and was successfully identified by that day"s contestant. She was educated at Dollar Academy.