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'''Verity Sharp''' (born 1970) is an English television and radio presenter.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Sharp grew up in Somerset.<ref name="BBC-LJVS">{{cite web |title=BBC Radio 3 – Late Junction – Verity Sharp |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/6019rjF08SC42SS3kQDsw8g/verity-sharp |website=BBC |accessdate=23 April 2019}}</ref> After studying at [[Dartington College of Arts]],<ref name="Hodgkinson">{{cite web |last1=Hodgkinson |first1=Will |title=Home entertainment: Verity Sharp |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2002/jan/18/artsfeatures2 |website=The Guardian |accessdate=23 April 2019 |date=18 January 2002}}</ref> she read music at the [[University of York]]<ref name="BBC-LJVS" /> and studied composition. During these years, she did some acting, performed music, and studied languages, including French.<br />
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==Presenting career==<br />
Sharp moved to London after graduating in 1992, and began working for [[BBC Radio 3|Radio 3]] in 1993, the year she had planned to start a post-graduate degree at the Guildhall School of Music. She trained as a producer, and from 1997 regularly produced and presented [[Pebble Mill Studios|Pebble Mill]]'s ''Music Machine'',<ref name="BBC-LJVS" /> a 15-minute music programme primarily intended for children. A year later, she was hosting the contemporary music show ''Hear And Now''.<br />
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In 2001, the eclectic late-night music programme ''[[Late Junction]]'', which she presented at that time in alternation with [[Fiona Talkington]] and [[Max Reinhardt (radio presenter)|Max Reinhardt]],<ref name="BBC-LJVS" /> won her the Silver [[Sony Radio Academy Award]] for ''Music Broadcaster of the Year'' – a "very proud moment for the team after three years of very hard work". On 21 March 2013, at the end of that evening's edition of programme, she formally announced that she was to cease being one of its regular presenters in order to pursue "a few more musical dreams". She has since become a regular presenter again. Since autumn 2019 when it moved to a single weekly show, she has alternated presentation duties with [[Jennifer Lucy Allan]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=11 September 2019|title=New regular programmes and presenters at BBC Radio 3|url=https://radiotoday.co.uk/2019/09/new-regular-programmes-and-presenters-at-bbc-radio-3/|access-date=26 September 2020|website=RadioToday|language=en-GB}}</ref><br />
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She was also one of the presenters of ''[[The Culture Show]]'' on BBC2,<ref name="BBC-LJVS" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hanley |first=Lynsey |date=24 January 2005 |title=My week: Verity Sharp, Radio and TV presenter |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3635693/My-week-Verity-Sharp-Radio-and-TV-presenter.html |access-date=25 May 2024 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}}</ref> and also presents ''Slow Radio'' on [[BBC Sounds]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Larson |first=Sarah |date=8 January 2019 |title=Three Excellent Podcasts to Start the New Year |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/podcast-dept/three-excellent-podcasts-to-start-the-new-year |access-date=25 May 2024 |work=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}</ref><br />
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==Music interest==<br />
[[File:Verity Sharp.jpg|thumb|Sharp at the 2005 [[Cambridge Folk Festival]]]]<br />
It was from her student years that she acquired a taste for non-Western music. Although her training was in classical cello she later took up the [[fiddle]] and turned to traditional music. In 2013, she narrated the [[BBC Four]] documentary ''How to Be a World Music Star: Buena Vista, Bhundu Boys and Beyond''.<br />
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