{{Short description|British journalist (born 1976)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
'''Thomas John Sandars''' (Born 7th February 1976) is a continuity announcer, newsreader and news presenter for BBC Radio 4.<ref>{{cite web|title=Past Networkers |url=http://www.mgeitf.co.uk/home/thenetwork/the-network/about-the-network/past-networkers.aspx |publisher=Edinburgh International Television Festival |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110414145632/http://www.mgeitf.co.uk/home/thenetwork/the-network/about-the-network/past-networkers.aspx |archivedate=2011-04-14 }}</ref>
==Education== From 1989 to 1994, Sandars was educated at The Oratory School,<ref name=Oratory>[http://www.ossociety.org.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=oratorian.content&cmid=20 Notable Old Oratorians (1972–2009) - In the Arts and Media - Tom Sanders] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109145802/http://www.ossociety.org.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=oratorian.content&cmid=20 |date=9 January 2015 }} Publisher: ''The Oratory School Society'', Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Retrieved: 1 May 2013.</ref> a Roman Catholic boarding independent school for boys in the village of Woodcote in Oxfordshire. He was active in Combined Cadet Force, in rowing and on stage. He was a joint founding editor of ''The Buzz'' school magazine and took A-levels in Art, Economics and English Literature.<ref name="forty">{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/theoratoryschoolsociety/docs/forty_under_forty_document_final_15|title=Forty Under Forty by The Oratory School Society - Issuu|date=8 April 2015|website=issuu.com |page=5}}</ref>
He then went to the University of Reading, where he studied Typography and Graphic Communication. In 1995 he was the editor of the student union newspaper at Reading, ''The Spark''.<ref name="forty"/>
==Career== He started at Radio Shropshire<ref name="forty"/> in 1998, moving to BBC Radio WM. He was a presenter on ''Midlands Today'' and was also their political reporter for ''The Midlands at Westminster''. He then moved to Sky News.<ref name="forty"/>
Sandars was then a freelance newsreader for the BBC World Service. He has been a BBC Radio 4 continuity announcer since June 2017 and a BBC Radio 4 newsreader since May 2018. He was a newsreader and presenter for BBC Radio 5 Live for ten years from 2003. Between 2007 and 2017 he read news bulletins for BBC Radio 2 and for Radio 6 Music. Prior to 2017, he was also an arts correspondent;<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sandars |first=Tom |title=Tom Sandars {{!}} LinkedIn |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomsandars?originalSubdomain=uk |access-date=15 November 2024}}</ref> he can also be heard on Radio 4 political programmes.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-12-05 |title=BBC Radio 4 - Today in Parliament, Peers call for a cut in their numbers |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04k9gdh |access-date=2024-11-15 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref>
On the 9 April 2021, Sandars' voice was heard breaking into all BBC Radio programmes to announce the death of Prince Philip.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://radiotoday.co.uk/2021/04/audio-radio-stations-enter-obit-mode-for-prince-philip/|title= Audio: Radio stations enter OBIT mode for Prince Philip|date=9 April 2021}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.tomsandars.com Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130701191917/http://www.tomsandars.com/ |date=1 July 2013 }} * [https://twitter.com/tomsandars Twitter]
===Video clips=== * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwN1DtdstEg Sky News] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-niHBsZXgI Innocent Drinks]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sandars, Tom}} Category:Alumni of the University of Reading Category:BBC newsreaders and journalists Category:BBC Radio 5 Live presenters Category:English political journalists Category:People educated at The Oratory School Category:Sky News newsreaders and journalists Category:1976 births Category:Living people