Carolyn Brown (newsreader)

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Carolyn Brown is a former BBC Radio 4 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, England, in 1981.{{cite web|title=Carolyn Brown |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/presenters/carolyn_brown.shtml |publisher=BBC Radio 4 |accessdate=13 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090111020106/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/presenters/carolyn_brown.shtml |archivedate=January 11, 2009 }}{{cite news |first=Adam |last=Berry |title=Dream jobs / Do what you love, the money will follow : Transmitting a touch of the poet |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/27/your-money/27iht-mradio_ed3__2.html |work=The New York Times |date=27 March 2004 |accessdate=13 February 2010}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}} After two years, she moved to BBC Radio Leeds 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.{{cite news |title=Carolyn Brown |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/radio_newsroom/radio_newsreaders/2067815.stm |publisher=BBC News |date=19 August 2002 |accessdate=13 February 2010}} In December 2001 she began reading the news and one of her first items was the death of the Queen Mother.

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.{{cite news |title=Radio 4's Carolyn Brown to give kidney to husband |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/20767358 |publisher=BBC |date=18 December 2012 |access-date=20 December 2019 |archive-date=18 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118160455/http://www.bbc.co.uk/ariel/20767358 |url-status=dead }} In April 2013, she spoke to Radio 4's Woman's Hour programme about her relationship with her husband after undergoing the operation.{{cite news |title=Woman's Hour clip |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01751bw |publisher=BBC |date=2 April 2013}}