Carolyn Quinn
Carolyn Quinn (b. 22 July 1961) is a British journalist best known for her work on BBC Radio 4 as a political correspondent and for presenting the Today programme and PM.
Early life
Quinn attended St Joseph's RC Primary School in Crayford, Dartford Grammar School for Girls and the University of Kent where she obtained a degree in French. She trained as a teacher, gaining a PGCE at the Institute of Education in London before becoming a French teacher at a London comprehensive, but gave this up to be a ward clerk at Charing Cross Hospital. She joined Riverside Radio at the hospital.
Career
She freelanced before joining the Irish Post and was then selected for a BBC Local Radio trainee scheme. After training and two years at BBC Radio Solent from 1987-9, she became a BBC news correspondent at Westminster.
BBC Radio 4
Quinn was a presenter of the Today programme from 2004 to 2008, co-presenting her last programme with James Naughtie on Wednesday 26 March 2008. As the programme closed, she invoked Tony Blair's comments upon leaving office as British Prime Minister, wishing well to "friend and foe alike" and referring to a "rollercoaster", indicating that her departure from the programme may have been less than entirely amicable. She presents PM on Saturdays, and covers the weekday edition when Eddie Mair is away. She has also presented Pick Of The Week several times and in January 2007 presented an edition of Woman's Hour.
Podcasts:
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by Tracy Lawrence
Crawlin' Again
by: Tracy LawrenceI ain't got her an' I ain't got a clue
Of what I did and didn't do
All I know is I'm wearing her number out
No explanation, it didn't take long
For her to go and tell me she's gone
My mama would be ashamed if she could see me now
'Cause I'm back on the bottle crying out loud
I need holdin' and I need it now
Someone rock me and then tuck me in
It takes a mama twenty years to make a boy a man
And another woman twenty seconds
To have him crawlin' again
He made us first but he let them
Be in control of the shape we're in
And every woman knows why Adam worshiped Eve
From the day we're born 'til the day we die
We're at the mercy of a woman kind
And like a big ol' baby I miss her loving me
'Cause I'm back on the bottle crying out loud
I need holdin' and I need it now
Someone rock me and then tuck me in
It takes a mama twenty years to make a boy a man
Another woman twenty seconds
To have him crawlin' again
It takes a mama twenty years to make a boy a man
Another woman twenty seconds
To have him crawlin' again
Yeah, it takes a mama twenty years to make a boy a man
Another woman twenty seconds
To have him crawlin' again