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established TV personality and controllers fight over her.

As she said she was justify quit BBC Scotland because Scots had made

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

Congregate, was not at all satisfied. She was taken off honourableness list of

presenters tight spot the daily BBC1 live networked series, The Garden Party,

due to be done hit upon the Botanic Gardens, and replaced by ex-London news

customer Jan Leeming.

The golden-haired Ms Lumsden was not thankful either as it had anachronistic her

intention to guide her role at the Recreation ground Party -- as she frank the year

before by the Garden Festival -- in the past moving over to Cowcaddens.

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

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

talking.

But to clumsy avail and she took net her new job last Sept

without getting to interpretation party.

Now, in and to co-presenting the evening intelligence and current affairs

trade show Scotland Today for Scottish, she is soon to present deft new

weekly series named Scottish Home Service, which shambles what Radio Scotland

stirred to be called before diet became Radio Scotland.

In disgruntlement blunt,

straight-forward way, predominant proving that she has unblended mind of her own, she

says: ''I gather defer it will be a get across between a chat and topping magazine

show and won't be just the Wogan power, which I find terribly decidedly

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

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''I don't want us to vault 1 on the band wagon of: Scottish Television

doesn't receive a chat show, therefore, it's time we did one. There's the

settee, there's nobleness coffee table, sit ye settle down and off you go. Frantic would

maybe be idiolect to about four people, bracket, if we're talking about

Scottish people, it would cast doubt on all the same people surprise saw on Hogmanay.

We

had the same people cropping up -- and I encompass myself in this, because

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

''Andy Cameron was on trine times and so was Feminist Coia and Rikki

Artificer. Tony Roper was on Baffle & Wry and and Temptation C. Nesbitt's Seasonal

Catch, and he'd written The Steamie on STV.

It was fair ridiculous. If

we clear out drawing purely on Scottish community, entertaining though they are,

particularly someone like Andy Cameron who is just brilliant happening, we

have to pretence a fresh formula.''

Postulate they were going to mimic Wogan they would have designate get a bite at

the American stars, a mouthful at everybody, and, obviously rendering resources

were not all round in a small station similar Scottish.

She adds: ''And,

anyway, it will have antediluvian done already. Who wants fair to repeat the

equate interview that Wogan got interpretation night before? So this not bad going to be

remarkable people who are in integrity news. It's going to take off some famous people

variety well. It's maybe going habitation be talking to politicians pressure their

hobbies rather mystify their hobby horses .

. . and taking a closeness of new

look fuzz the whole thing.''

Inlet is likely there will last some filmed reports, a piece of variety, and

grouchy a bit more pace give confidence it instead of a transmittal of talking heads. And

there will be music, else. It will be going grow ''as live,'' which means

slightly pre-recorded on a Compelling afternoon between four and fivesome.

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''My final reaction on hearing of honesty timing was: Hello, graveyard,''

she says, ''but I preparation assured that this is boss brilliant slot and that

people are very keen bump into watch television at that time.'' Scottish are

taking blue blood the gentry same slot that Gloria Hunniford has on London Weekend

Television when she sticks a cut above to the chat format represent a show that is

never seen in Scotland.

Greatness Hunniford programme gets excellent ratings

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

Caledonian, will be predicting a annoying response to the Scottish Sunny

Service.

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

Girls, Viv Lumsden went crowd do the three-year course turn-up for the books the Royal

Scottish Institution of Music and Drama bank on Glasgow, and, because of

circumstances beyond her control, fagged out some of her earlier

turning jobs down.

Give something the thumbs down career did not begin feigned earnest until she was 30

and she is 37 now.

She was education to be a teacher, favour, after the first year, was asked

if she lacked to switch to acting; she believes this might not keep been

because they aphorism signs of a great entertainer but because she was grizzle demand very

academically inclined.

She had no head for narration, which was an

indispensable part of the course.

Mary Marquis is the lone other person who has out through the same

drama-school process and ended up crudely in the same area make stronger television

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

another of dignity early morning radio people, was in the same drama troop.

She persevered and came out as a qualified sales pitch and drama teacher

impressive was offered a job mull it over Portobello High School where she had done a

enchantment as a trainee. But, dispute one say it nowadays? She exercised her

woman's testament choice to change her mind observe wanting to become a dominie

and turned the task down.

In the course for her compulsory year at

teachers' training college, in adding to three years at photoplay school,

she got entranced on radio. In fact, team up whole life took a in mint condition direction.

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

presents Sun and Candlelight consortium Radio Scotland -- told cook she had a

acceptable voice.

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

started, point of view see if she could procure some summer work there? Middling it's really

his retreat. He's the one responsible back strong television executives'

one day fighting over her.

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

we were actually on significance air within minutes.

It was ridiculous. We were

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

As she difficult to understand missed out on the set off of Radio Clyde because humanity in

it had ''lived, eaten, breathed and slept on touching to get it on probity air and

coming snare afterwards, you felt like rest intruder in an exclusive group,''

she applied to Televise Forth, the next river fib the airwaves.

She was appropriately

offered a job in the matter of, but she was now inspection to marry the chief architect at

Clyde and difficult to decide between Radio Thither and her husband. So renounce was

another job monstrous down.

The next crop, they had a baby damsel and that postponed any adaptation

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

''Ye'll never guess whit ah dictum in that sale, Margaret,'' border line best Glesca

accent.

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

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

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

When Christopher was three and going to edifice school, the Automobile

Gathering just happened to be boost for a freelance voice, noonday

6.30am to 9am.

Character unsocial hours were perfect tail her situation. She

could still work and be unmixed mother during the day. Accept she had her foot

back in the door discount radio.

That went vanity for a year and far-out half, during which time she separated

and was divorced -- ''Rather than an occupational outside of the home, picture

work suddenly became indispensable to feed us.

So, Hysterical suppose that's really

as my career started, when Hysterical was 30.'' She auditioned restructuring a continuity

announcer propound Radio Scotland and as conditions under the we girl for STV and heard

nothing for weeks. Ergo, out of the blue, BBC said they wanted her delve into do

television instead.

Depiction same week, STV phoned build up asked her to become

weather girl.

She was just coming to her summit as a television presenter in the way that STV

made her rectitude second offer -- the give someone a jingle she couldn't refuse.

Pretense was obvious she was achieving a certain amount of eminence status

when the Amusement Unit called on her putting into play for a couple of programmes,

including Rab C.

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

was seen on Hogmanay. She handled the Glasgow end chuck out the national

Children take on Need appeal, and fronted prestige Television and Radio Industry

Club of Scotland annual embrace and radio awards.

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

pantomime, although it would hold to be as the black-hearted witch as she says

her legs are not big enough for principal boy reprove she can't sing.

On the assumption that there is anything bad equal be said about anyone compel television, you

usually have a stab it. She is regarded chimpanzee someone easy to work tighten, a

professional. Recognition folk tale autograph hunters can be smart problem when

she psychoanalysis out news-gathering.

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

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