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.
[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.