Sally Magnusson is a journalist, broadcaster and writer, much in demand as an after-dinner speaker and conference and award ceremony host. She presents a range of network programmes for the BBC, including the hit series 'Missing', the 'Daily Politics on Friday', the Royal Television Society award-winning daytime strand and hard-hitting series, 'Britain's Secret Shame' and the ever popular 'Songs of Praise', as well as anchoring Scotland's early evening news programme 'Reporting Scotland'.

Sally also presents current affairs programmes for BBC Daytime including 'Britain's Streets of Poverty', 'Britain's Streets of Vice' and 'Britain's Streets of Booze'

She was born in Glasgow, studied English at Edinburgh University and began her journalistic career on The Scotsman, before joining the BBCs news and current affairs department in London, where she presented Breakfast News for many years.

Based now in Glasgow, she is the author of several of books, including Family Life (Harpercollins), Dreaming of Iceland (Hodder) and Glorious Things (Continuum).

As a speaker she specialises in hilarious talks about juggling her life as a broadcaster and mother of five. She has chaired conferences on subjects as diverse as banking, energy and science for schools.