Background
Rae was born and raised in Dundee, and read English at Edinburgh University, having failed to gain a place at music college. As a child she had wanted to be a singer.
Rae was born and raised in Dundee, and read English at Edinburgh University, having failed to gain a place at music college. As a child she had wanted to be a singer.
University of Edinburgh.
She left the university before her finals, and began work with Doctorate. C. Thomson newspapers in Dundee, Scotland before taking up work on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Aberdeen. After three years there, she left to work in London in the early 1980s as a continuity announcer and newsreader on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4. The response to her voice on Radio 4 at this time was negative, with listeners believing the British Broadcasting Corporation"s commitment to accurate pronunciation was in decline, and she was obliged to stand down from her post.
Later in the decade, she moved to daytime television co-presenting Open Air and continued with voiceover work when it ended.
Susan Rae began working on the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service around 2000, returning to British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 in 2004. She has done voice-overs for many Discovery Channel shows including Forensic Detectives, some episodes of The Federal Bureau of Investigation Files and Street Crime United Kingdom for Bravo.
In 2007, she presented Eastern Skies for Anglia Television. Rae lives in Suffolk.
