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Carolyn Brown (newsreader)
British radio newsreader and continuity announcer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Carolyn Brown is a former BBC Radio 4 newsreader and continuity announcer.
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Brown started her career as a reporter at a local newspaper, The Crewe Chronicle, and joined Radio City, an independent local radio station in Liverpool, England, in 1981.[1][2] After two years, she moved to BBC Radio Leeds where she presented the morning news programme, Good Morning, Yorkshire.[2]
After spells in regional television in Plymouth and Bristol, she joined BBC Radio 4 in 1991 as a continuity announcer and later read the Shipping Forecast.[3] In December 2001 she began reading the news and one of her first items was the death of the Queen Mother.[1][3]
In December 2012, 18 months after getting married, she stated that she would to donate a kidney to her husband, who required a life-saving operation.[4] In April 2013, she spoke to Radio 4's Woman's Hour programme about her relationship with her husband after undergoing the operation.[5]
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