Alice Arnold

Alice Arnold is a British newsreader and continuity announcer on BBC Radio 4.

After gaining a degree in politics at the University of Sussex, she trained as an actress and was a magistrate for ten years.

Arnold joined the BBC Radio Drama Company in 1988. After meeting Peter Donaldson at a party in 1994, she joined Radio 4's presentation team in that year. In 2004, she became a newsreader, and now regularly reads the afternoon and evening news on Radio 4. In 2005, she featured as a news presenter in BBC Two comedy Broken News. In June 2006, she was promoted to read the news on Radio 4's Today programme. From 2007 she has co-presented comedian Jon Holmes's show Listen Against, a parody of various programmes on Radio 4. A second series of Listen Against was broadcast in November and December 2008, and a third began in September 2010.

She is in a civil partnership with the BBC presenter Clare Balding. They live in Chiswick, London, England, UK. Arnold was previously in a relationship with the comedian, writer and presenter Sandi Toksvig.