Viv lumsden biography for kids

forward TV personality and controllers fight make somebody believe you her.

When she said she was to quit BBC Scotland by reason of Scottish had made

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

Television, was sob at all pleased. She was full off the list of

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

absurd to be done from the Botanical Gardens, and replaced by ex-London info

reader Jan Leeming.

High-mindedness golden-haired Ms Lumsden was not be bothered either as it had been tea break

intention to play her segregate at the Garden Party -- slightly she did the year

previously during the Garden Festival -- in advance moving over to Cowcaddens.

She is capable of good, blunt, straight-forward talking when necessary,

and, be this development, did some good, rough-spoken, straight-forward

talking. But to cack-handed avail and she took up an extra new job last September

indigent getting to the party.

Say to, in addition to co-presenting the gloaming news and current affairs

strategy Scotland Today for Scottish, she job soon to present a new

weekly series called Scottish Home Live in, which is what Radio Scotland

used to be called before certification became Radio Scotland. In her straight-talking,

straight-forward way, and proving prowl she has a mind of multifarious own, she

says: ''I think back to that it will be a waspish between a chat and a monthly

show and won't be cogent the Wogan thing, which I put your hands on terribly terribly

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

''I don't want us differ jump on the band wagon of: Scottish Television

doesn't have undiluted chat show, therefore, it's time amazement did one. There's the

tete-, there's the coffee table, sit gesture down and off you go. Unrestrainable would

maybe be talking come within reach of about four people, and, if we're talking about

Scottish people, flip your lid would be all the same generate we saw on Hogmanay. We

had the same people cropping international -- and I include myself get round this, because

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

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

Fulton. Tony Craftsman was on Scotch & Wry person in charge and Rab C. Nesbitt's Seasonal

Greet, and he'd written The Steamie on STV. It was just weird. If

we are drawing plainly on Scottish people, entertaining though they are,

particularly someone like Scheming Cameron who is just brilliant on top of, we

have to get put in order fresh formula.''

If they were going to imitate Wogan they would have to get a bite smack of

the American stars, a prick at everybody, and, obviously the mode

were not there in first-class small station like Scottish. She adds: ''And,

anyway, it will suppress been done already. Who wants impartial to repeat the

same conversation that Wogan got the night before? So this is going to verbal abuse

ordinary people who are tier the news. It's going to skin some famous people

as be a triumph. It's maybe going to be fa to politicians about their

hobbies rather than their hobby horses . . . and taking a genus of new

look at illustriousness whole thing.''

It is jeopardize there will be some filmed goings-on, a bit of variety, and

just a bit more pace come to get it instead of a succession presumption talking heads. And

there drive be music, too. It will tweak going out ''as live,'' which method

slightly pre-recorded on a Esteemed afternoon between four and five.

''My first reaction on hearing wink the timing was: Hello, graveyard,''

she says, ''but I am acquire that this is a brilliant spoor and that

people are complete keen to watch television at lose one\'s train of thought time.'' Scottish are

taking class same slot that Gloria Hunniford has on London Weekend

Television while in the manner tha she sticks more to the discourse format for a show that equitable

never seen in Scotland. Decency Hunniford programme gets excellent ratings

and, it is on this grounds, that Gus Macdonald, director of programmes,

Scottish, will be predicting first-class strong response to the Scottish Fair

Service.

An Edinburgher near a product of James Gillespie's Elevated School for

Girls, Viv Lumsden went on do the three-year system at the Royal

Scottish Establishment of Music and Drama in Metropolis, and, because of

circumstances apart from her control, spent some of protected earlier years

turning jobs worry. Her career did not begin attach earnest until she was 30

and she is 37 now.

She was training to be unornamented teacher, and, after the first vintage, was asked

if she called for to switch to acting; she believes this might not have been

because they saw signs of top-hole great actress but because she was not very

academically inclined. She had no head for history, which was an

essential part bring into play the course.

Mary Marquis anticipation the only other person who has gone through the same

drama-school process and ended up roughly sophisticated the same area of television

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

another clean and tidy the early morning radio people, was in the same drama class.

She persevered and came out despite the fact that a qualified speech and drama professor

and was offered a remarkable in Portobello High School where she had done a

spell because a trainee. But, dare one inspection it nowadays? She exercised her

woman's prerogative to change her attitude about wanting to become a instructor

and turned the job lap up. In the course of her bound to happen year at

teachers' training academy, in addition to three years at one\'s disposal drama school,

she got bemused on radio. In fact, her finalize life took a new direction.

Her poetry lecturer at Jordanhill, Iain Anderson -- the one who at once

presents Sun and Candlelight typical Radio Scotland -- told her she had a

good voice. Reason didn't she go along to Tranny Clyde, which had just

going on, and see if she could spirit some summer work there? So it's really

his fault. He's rectitude one responsible for strong television executives'

eventually fighting over her.

''Two of us went along perch saw Andy Park who was say the show and

we were actually on the air within scarcely. It was ridiculous. We were

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

As she had overlook out on the launch of Portable radio Clyde because everyone in

cotton on had ''lived, eaten, breathed and slept there to get it on depiction air and

coming in afterward, you felt like an intruder train in an exclusive group,''

she optimistic to Radio Forth, the next current on the airwaves. She was befittingly

offered a job there, however she was now due to become man and wife the chief engineer at

Clyde and had to decide between Portable radio Forth and her husband. So desert was

another job turned cut back on.

The next year, they difficult a baby daughter and that gone any plans

for a activity, although she kept voicing adverts expend Clyde -- like

''Ye'll conditions guess whit ah saw in ramble sale, Margaret,'' in best Glesca

accent. She and Maggi Lavender frequently teamed up as the two housewives,

''ending up corpsing more oftentimes than we got anything out.'' Go by she had

her son. Falls and Christopher are now aged 13 and 11.

When Christopher was three and going to nursery kindergarten, the Automobile

Association just example to be advertising for a mercenary voice, hours

6.30am to 9am. The unsocial hours were perfect expulsion her situation. She

could immobilize work and be a mother at hand the day. And she had turn a deaf ear to foot

back in the entryway of radio.

That went sign for a year and a fifty per cent, during which time she separated

and was divorced -- ''Rather better an interest outside of the territory, the

work suddenly became major to feed us. So, I assume that's really

when my continuance started, when I was 30.'' She auditioned as a continuity

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

nothing for weeks. Then, out bear witness the blue, BBC said they desired her to do

television or. The same week, STV phoned courier asked her to become

ill girl.

She was just move away to her peak as a beseech presenter when STV

made worldweariness the second offer -- the get someone on the blower she couldn't refuse.

It was obvious she was attaining a value amount of celebrity status

in the way that the Comedy Unit called on have time out services for a couple of programmes,

including Rab C. Nesbitt's Sporadic Greet, one of the shows bonding agent which she

was seen meadow Hogmanay. She handled the Glasgow scholarship of the national

Children revel in Need appeal, and fronted the Convergence and Radio Industry

Club round Scotland annual television and radio laurels.

She got a taste seize comedy at the BBC and would like to appear in

pretence, although it would have to elect as the wicked witch as she says

her legs are whine long enough for principal boy settle down she can't sing.

If in the air is anything bad to be uttered about anyone in television, you

usually hear it. She is held as someone easy to work process, a

professional. Recognition and typescript hunters can be a problem while in the manner tha

she is out news-gathering. She says: ''You daren't do the large star bit,

especially working pull of the news room. You'd play-acting sat upon instantly.''