Carolyn Brown is a former
BBC Radio 4
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newsreader and continuity announcer.
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
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,
England
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, in 1981.
[ ] After two years, she moved to
BBC Radio Leeds
BBC Radio Leeds is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of West Yorkshire.
It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at St Peter's Square in Leeds.
According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audienc ...
where she presented the morning news programme, ''Good Morning, Yorkshire''.
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
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.
In December 2001 she began reading the news and one of her first items was the death of the
Queen Mother
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.
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.
In April 2013, she spoke to Radio 4's ''
Woman's Hour
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History
The first BBC programme for women was the programme cal ...
'' programme about her relationship with her husband after undergoing the operation.
References
BBC Radio 4
British radio personalities
Living people
Radio and television announcers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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