Sean Curran joined the BBC in 1988 as a trainee reporter. For the last ten years he has worked at Westminster reporting on politics and parliament. He is a regular presenter of Today in Parliament and Yesterday in Parliament and frequently commentates on Prime Minister's Questions for the Simon Mayo programme on Radio 5 Live. Sometimes, when everyone else is busy or looking the other way, Sean is allowed to appear on television news bulletins and News 24.

Sean was educated at St Mary's College, Crosby, Liverpool Polytechnic, the Inns of Court School of Law and Leicester University. He has a law degree and was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn. He also has a Master's degree in Mass Communications. In spite of all this, he still thought he could make his fortune as a journalist - which goes to show that academic qualifications and intelligence are not the same thing.

Sean has promised his wife, his two children (who have to walk barefoot across cobbled streets to school) and his bank manager that one day he will get a proper job, but not just yet.