Young Susanna brings ray of sunshine to the radio

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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
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A budding radio star from Stoke Bishop won the chance to read a weather report live on air to thousands of listeners across Bristol.

Susanna Paynter, who is 10, beat 160 other schoolchildren to become Heart Bristol's first "weather kid".

Youngsters sent in podcasts of themselves reading the weather, and five finalists were brought into the Heart studios on Passage Street.

Susanna, a pupil at Stoke Bishop Primary, was announced the winner by presenters Bush, Troy and Paulina live on Heart Breakfast, and then read the city weather report.

Her winning entry was a podcast of herself singing a report. All the finalists received a Heart goodie bag, a tour of the studios and met Bush, Troy and Paulina.

The presenters said: "Susanna's weather song podcast really stood out as the winner. We were all amazed at her creativity."

Susanna's teacher, Chris Unsworth, said everyone at her school was proud of her.

He said: "Before the competition Susanna was quite shy and and didn't even want to enter.

"But one night she thought of the idea of writing a song and the next day came into school and recorded, edited and produced her podcast all by herself in the ICT suite."

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