title: Neil Sleat
text: # Neil Sleat
  
  Neil Sleat is a newsreader and continuity announcer on BBC Radio 4.
  
  ## Career
  
  After joining the BBC as a trainee engineer, working as a studio manager and then an announcer/newsreader on the BBC World Service, he joined Radio 4 as an announcer/newsreader in 1998. He has also produced many BBC Radio 4 trails. He returned to BBC Radio 4 in May 2006 after several months away producing trails full-time. He left the BBC staff in 2021 but now does voice work on a freelance basis, including presenting on Radio 4 Extra.
  
  