party leaders and chaired The Big Debate for BBC Scotland. On 5 May 2005, Mackenzie presented the UK election coverage for BBC Scotland from a 'Scottish perspective'. This was the first time BBC Scotland's Election Night programme was broadcast on BBC One Scotland. Anne Mackenzie was also a presenter on BBC Radio 4 in London, where she presented The World Tonight, before moving to the Four Corners factual series. On 29 March 2007, the BBC announced that Anne Mackenzie would front BBC One network coverage of Election Night 2007 and would continue to host The Big Debate series for BBC Scotland throughout the election campaign. Mackenzie also teamed up with David Dimbleby for the main BBC broadcast on 3 May 2007. Formidable interviewer Some commenters saw Mackenzie as a fierce interviewer. Gavin Docherty of the Sunday Mail wrote in 1999: "She is best known for her confrontational interview style - and the politicians know there is always the chance she'll jump down their throat and dance all over their tonsils". Award winner Anne Mackenzie was recognised in 1995 with a BAFTA award. This was for her work for the North Tonight nightly broadcast. In 1999, she hosted the first ever Scottish Politician of the Year Awards on STV. She was voted among the Top 50 Most Powerful Scottish Women in a poll for the Scotsman'' newspaper. Personal life Mackenzie married Neil McConaghy in 1992 at an Aberdeen church. They have a son named Jack Donald Stewart, who was born in September 1998. She lists reading and music as her main hobbies. See also Newsnight Scotland Isle of Lewis References Sources Secrets of My XS, Sunday Mail - 6 December 1998. Interview with Gavin Docherty, Sunday Mail - 11 April 1999. Dr. Lewis MacKenzie at the University of Glasgow website External links Interview with GirlGuiding Scotland (preserved at archive.org) Living people Alumni of the University of Glasgow BBC Scotland newsreaders and journalists Scottish television presenters Scottish women television presenters STV News newsreaders and journalists People from Stornoway British broadcast news analysts People educated at the Nicolson Institute British women television journalists Scottish women radio presenters Year of birth missing (living people)