Tom Sutcliffe (broadcaster) Tom Sutcliffe (broadcaster) Thomas Sutcliffe (born 12 August 1956 in Yorkshire, England) is a British journalist and arts broadcaster. He has presented the BBC Radio 4 arts show "Saturday Review" since 1999, and is also chairman of "Round Britain Quiz". Sutcliffe was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School and studied English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Sutcliffe joined the BBC when he graduated from university. After editing the BBC Radio 4 arts programme "Kaleidoscope", in 1986 he became the first arts editor of "The Independent" newspaper, a columnist and television reviewer. Sutcliffe has presented the BBC Radio 4 arts show "Saturday
Radio Active (radio series) otherwise unlinked sketches and songs, but as the show developed, the episodes became more thematically focused, each one lampooning a different broadcasting genre and sometimes even a specific programme such as "Down Your Way" (parodied as "Round Your Parts"), "In at the Deep End" ("Out of Your Depth"), "Ultra Quiz" ("Gigantaquiz"), "The Radio Programme" ("The Radio Radio Programme") and "Crimewatch" ("Stop That Crime UK"). The programmes often pitch the "modern-media" regular characters against older stereotypes of foreigners and "establishment types" such as generals and politicians, though the programme rarely strays into the "alternative comedy" vogue of contemporary political comment. However