Sally Magnusson presents a range of BBC programmes in the areas of current affairs, politics, news and religion.
Among these are the BBC ONE daytime strands Missing
and Britain's Streets, the Sunday series Songs of Praise, the early
evening Scottish news programme Reporting Scotland and BBC Two's
Daily Politics on Friday.
She began her career as a journalist on
The Scotsman and then the Sunday Standard.
She joined BBC Scotland
to present current affairs programmes and went on to present
Sixty Minutes, the BBC's successor to Nationwide, for network
television.
In October 1986 she joined BBC One's Breakfast Time,
later Breakfast News, as one of the main presenters and stayed
with the programme until moving back to her native Glasgow in the
mid-nineties.
In 1996 she won a Scottish Bafta for her commentary
on the BBC's Dunblane: A Community Remembers, and in 1998 was
awarded a Royal Television Society award for her exclusive television
interview with Earl Spencer, Diana: My Sister the Princess.
In 2004
her acclaimed series Britain's Secret Shame, credited with raising
awareness of the problem of abuse of the elderly in Britain's
care homes, won the Royal Television Society's award for Best Daytime
Series.
As a reporter she's covered the General Elections in
1997, 2001 and 2005, the funeral of Princess Diana and the opening
of the new Scottish Parliament.
She commented for the BBC on
the funerals of Scottish First Minister Donald Dewar, Cardinal
Basil Hume and Cardinal Thomas Winning.
In 2003 she began presenting
innovative current affairs programmes for BBC Daytime, to
which politics was added during the May 2005 elections when she hosted
a round-Britain series of audience participation shows, Election
Roadshow.
In September 2005 she co-presented the BBC's coverage
of the party conferences for the Daily Politics.
Sally has presented
programmes on Radio 2, Radio 4 and Radio Scotland,
and is the author of books including The Flying Scotsman, Clemo,
Family Life, Glorious Things and Dreaming of Iceland.
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