Education
Quinn attended Street Joseph"s Remote Control Primary School in Crayford, Dartford Grammar School for Girls and the University of Kent where she obtained a degree in French.
Quinn attended Street Joseph"s Remote Control Primary School in Crayford, Dartford Grammar School for Girls and the University of Kent where she obtained a degree in French.
She joined Riverside Radio at the hospital. She freelanced before joining the Irish Post and was then selected for a British Broadcasting Corporation Local Radio trainee scheme. After training and two years at British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Solent from 1987-1989, she became a British Broadcasting Corporation news correspondent at Westminster.
British Broadcasting Corporation 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 Prime Minister 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. Quinn became the regular presenter of Radio Four"s The Westminster Hour from January 2007 following Andrew Rawnsley"s departure in September 2006.