Anne McAlpine is a Scottish journalist, newsreader and weather presenter working for BBC Alba and BBC Scotland.
12 Facts About Anne McAlpine
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Anne McAlpine is best known for presenting Reporting Scotland and Landward, and narrating Scotland's Home of the Year.
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Anne McAlpine was brought up as the youngest of four girls in a tight-knit Scottish Gaelic-speaking community on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
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From a young age, Anne McAlpine took a keen interest in music, playing the chanter and bagpipes until 14 when she sustained a mouth injury.
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Anne McAlpine then took up the guitar and piano, which she continues to play.
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Since 2019, Anne McAlpine has narrated Scotland's Home of the Year.
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On radio, Anne McAlpine hosts the Gaelic-language drive time show Aithris an Fheasgair on BBC Radio nan Gaidheal three times a week.
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Anne McAlpine has fronted several of her own shows for BBC Alba.
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Anne McAlpine is based at BBC Scotland's headquarters known as Pacific Quay in Glasgow.
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In 2007, Anne McAlpine represented the Western Isles in football as a defender at the 2007 Island Games in Rhodes, Greece.
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In February 2022 Anne married Ken McAlpine, a cameraman whom she met working on Eorpa.
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Anne McAlpine is a former member of the 90's Britpop band The Supernaturals.