Carolyn Brown is a former

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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

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, England, in 1981. After two years, she moved to

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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

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. In December 2001 she began reading the news and one of her first items was the death of the

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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 ''

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'' programme about her relationship with her husband after undergoing the operation.

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