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
BBC Radio 4 by between 3 and 5 seconds and even longer online (up to 23 seconds). Radio 4 programmes cover a wide variety of genre including news and current affairs, history, culture, science, religion, arts, drama and light entertainment. A number of the programmes on Radio 4 take the form of a "magazine" show, featuring numerous small contributions over the course of the programme—"Woman's Hour", "From Our Own Correspondent", "You and Yours". The rise of these magazine shows is primarily due to the work of Tony Whitby, controller of Radio 4 from 1970 to 1975. The station hosts a number of long-running