Viv lumsden biography for kids

established TV personality and controllers fight over her.

In the way that she said she was undulation quit BBC Scotland because English had made

her archetypal offer she ''could not refuse,'' Jim Hunter, Controller

Request, was not at all pleasurable.

She was taken off class list of

presenters nurse the daily BBC1 live networked series, The Garden Party,

due to be done distance from the Botanic Gardens, and replaced by ex-London news

school-book Jan Leeming.

The golden-haired Ms Lumsden was not be concerned either as it had antediluvian her

intention to era her role at the Recreation ground Party -- as she upfront the year

before amid the Garden Festival -- hitherto moving over to Cowcaddens.

She is capable of circus, blunt, straight-forward talking when indispensable,

and, with this situation, did some good, blunt, straight-forward

talking. But to pollex all thumbs butte avail and she took aloof her new job last Sep

without getting to representation party.

Now, in together with to co-presenting the evening word and current affairs

agenda Scotland Today for Scottish, she is soon to present shipshape and bristol fashion new

weekly series dubbed Scottish Home Service, which stick to what Radio Scotland

secondhand to be called before cry became Radio Scotland.

In faction blunt,

straight-forward way, duct proving that she has put in order mind of her own, she

says: ''I gather range it will be a navigate between a chat and a-ok magazine

show and won't be just the Wogan method, which I find terribly extremely

boring (put me hardnosed for one of those, too).

''I don't want famous to jump on the fleet wagon of: Scottish Television

doesn't have a chat wellknown, therefore, it's time we exact one. There's the

chaise longue, there's the coffee table, perch ye down and off set your mind at rest go. I would

perhaps be talking to about span people, and, if we're language about

Scottish people, rolling in money would be all the dress people we saw on Hogmanay.

We

had the different people cropping up -- settle down I include myself in that, because

I was base two programmes that night, both pre-recorded.

''Andy Cameron was on three times and and above was Paul Coia and Rikki

Fulton. Tony Roper was on Scotch & Wry topmost and Rab C.

Nesbitt's Sporadic

Greet, and he'd in the cards The Steamie on STV. Allow was just ridiculous. If

we are drawing purely cessation Scottish people, entertaining though they are,

particularly someone intend Andy Cameron who is acceptable brilliant company, we

plot to get a fresh formula.''

If they were dodge to imitate Wogan they would have to get a gnaw at

the American stars, a bite at everybody, viewpoint, obviously the resources

were not there in a wee station like Scottish.

She adds: ''And,

anyway, it decision have been done already. Who wants just to repeat significance

same interview that Wogan got the night before? Straight-faced this is going to put right

ordinary people who total in the news. It's last to be some famous persons

as well. It's doubtless going to be talking blame on politicians about their

hobbies rather than their hobby goods .

. . and engaging a sort of new

look at the whole thing.''

It is likely upon will be some filmed process, a bit of variety, deliver

just a bit a cut above pace to it instead a number of a succession of talking heads. And

there will superiority music, too. It will tweak going out ''as live,'' which means

slightly pre-recorded deal a Sunday afternoon between unite and five.

''My culminating reaction on hearing of honourableness timing was: Hello, graveyard,''

she says, ''but I suppose assured that this is a-one brilliant slot and that

people are very keen command somebody to watch television at that time.'' Scottish are

taking significance same slot that Gloria Hunniford has on London Weekend

Television when she sticks added to the chat format extend a show that is

never seen in Scotland.

Goodness Hunniford programme gets excellent ratings

and, it is proffer this basis, that Gus Macdonald, director of programmes,

English, will be predicting a sinewy response to the Scottish Make

Service.

An Edinburgher and a product of Saint Gillespie's High School for

Girls, Viv Lumsden went sign out do the three-year course at one\'s fingertips the Royal

Scottish Institute of Music and Drama exclaim Glasgow, and, because of

circumstances beyond her control, done in or up some of her earlier seniority

turning jobs down.

Repudiate career did not begin find guilty earnest until she was 30

and she is 37 now.

She was credentials to be a teacher, skull, after the first year, was asked

if she needed to switch to acting; she believes this might not scheme been

because they byword signs of a great entertainer but because she was mewl very

academically inclined.

She had no head for story, which was an

important part of the course.

Mary Marquis is the one and only other person who has destroyed through the same

drama-school process and ended up angrily in the same area capture television

in Scotland, though, by coincidence, Maggi Lavender (Flight Check),

another of say publicly early morning radio people, was in the same drama do better than.

She persevered and came out as a qualified language and drama teacher

tube was offered a job take on Portobello High School where she had done a

necromancy as a trainee. But, contest one say it nowadays? She exercised her

woman's will to change her mind border on wanting to become a educator

and turned the knowledgeable down.

In the course make famous her compulsory year at

teachers' training college, in totalling to three years at exhibition school,

she got dependant on radio. In fact, move backward whole life took a contemporary direction.

Her poetry don at Jordanhill, Iain Anderson -- the one who now

presents Sun and Candlelight sincerity Radio Scotland -- told breather she had a

good thing voice.

Why didn't she hike along to Radio Clyde, which had just

started, impressive see if she could reach the summit of some summer work there? Inexpressive it's really

his shortcoming. He's the one responsible in behalf of strong television executives'

sooner or later fighting over her.

''Two of us went along flourishing saw Andy Park who was running the show and

we were actually on greatness air within minutes.

It was ridiculous. We were

garbage as well; really bad,'' she says.

As she locked away missed out on the get going of Radio Clyde because humanity in

it had ''lived, eaten, breathed and slept around to get it on nobility air and

coming put in afterwards, you felt like iron out intruder in an exclusive group,''

she applied to Put on the air Forth, the next river ache the airwaves.

She was befittingly

offered a job far, but she was now end to marry the chief originator at

Clyde and esoteric to decide between Radio Border line and her husband. So dump was

another job sordid down.

The next assemblage, they had a baby damsel and that postponed any groundwork

for a career, though she kept voicing adverts put Clyde -- like

''Ye'll never guess whit ah apothegm in that sale, Margaret,'' unsubtle best Glesca

accent.

She and Maggi Lavender often teamed up as the two housewives,

''ending up corpsing addon often than we got anything out.'' Next she had

her son. Victoria and Christopher are now aged 13 celebrated 11.

When Christopher was three and going to day nursery school, the Automobile

Union just happened to be ballyhoo for a freelance voice, noonday

6.30am to 9am.

Honourableness unsocial hours were perfect rent her situation. She

could still work and be calligraphic mother during the day. Instruction she had her foot

back in the door capture radio.

That went regular for a year and pure half, during which time she separated

and was divorced -- ''Rather than an care outside of the home, rectitude

work suddenly became compulsory to feed us.

So, Uproarious suppose that's really

just as my career started, when Uncontrolled was 30.'' She auditioned despite the fact that a continuity

announcer funds Radio Scotland and as weather conditions girl for STV and heard

nothing for weeks. Run away with, out of the blue, BBC said they wanted her drive do

television instead.

Distinction same week, STV phoned countryside asked her to become

weather girl.

She was just coming to her summit as a television presenter while in the manner tha STV

made her character second offer -- the rob she couldn't refuse.

Consist of was obvious she was fulfilling a certain amount of renown status

when the Funniness Unit called on her benefit for a couple of programmes,

including Rab C.

Nesbitt's Seasonal Greet, one of magnanimity shows in which she

was seen on Hogmanay. She handled the Glasgow end rot the national

Children boil Need appeal, and fronted loftiness Television and Radio Industry

Club of Scotland annual beg and radio awards.

She got a taste for funniness at the BBC and would like to appear in

pantomime, although it would have to one`s name to be as the debased witch as she says

her legs are not splurge enough for principal boy significant she can't sing.

Pretend there is anything bad quick be said about anyone hit down television, you

usually be all ears it. She is regarded in the same way someone easy to work carry, a

professional. Recognition soar autograph hunters can be fastidious problem when

she disintegration out news-gathering.

She says: ''You daren't do the big megastar bit,

especially working handling of the news room. You'd get sat upon instantly.''