Thomas John Sandars (born February 1976, St. Marylebone, London)^{[citation needed]} is a continuity announcer for BBC Radio 4 and a newsreader for the BBC World Service.^[1]

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From 1989 to 1994, Sandars was educated at The Oratory School,^[2] 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.^[3]

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.^[3] He is married to Kate.^{[citation needed]}

He started at Radio Shropshire^[3] in 1998, moving to BBC 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.^[3]

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 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 He is also an arts correspondent and can be heard on Radio 4 political programmes.

On the 9 April 2021, Sandars' voice was heard breaking into all BBC Radio programmes to announce the death of Prince Philip.^[4]