a Royal Television Society award for her exclusive television interview with Earl Spencer, Diana: My Sister the Princess. Magnusson narrated the Q.E.D. documentary Saving Trudy in 1999. As a reporter, she covered the 1997, 2001 and 2005 General Elections, as well as the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales and the opening of the new Scottish Parliament. She also commentated for the BBC on the funerals of the inaugural First Minister of Scotland Donald Dewar, Cardinal Basil Hume and Cardinal Thomas Winning. Magnusson has presented many television programmes, ranging from Panorama to Songs of Praise. In 2005 she joined BBC Two's The Daily Politics as its Friday presenter. In 1997, Magnusson returned to Glasgow and became a main presenter for BBC Scotland's news programme Reporting Scotland. She shared the role with Jackie Bird and now Laura Miller and presents the programme's Thursday and Friday edition. Books Magnusson is the author of Life of Pee: The Story of How Urine Got Everywhere. She has also written books about the Scottish runner Eric Liddell, who refused to run on the Sabbath day due to his Christian beliefs, and about the Cornish Christian poet Jack Clemo and his marriage to Ruth Peaty. Magnusson wrote the children's book Horace and the Haggis Hunter, which was illustrated by her husband, Norman Stone. The Seal Woman's Gift, Magnusson's first novel for adults, was published in February 2018. The Ninth Child, her second novel, published in 2020, is set in 19th-century Scotland, weaving folklore and Victorian social history. Personal life Magnusson is married to Norman Stone, a TV director, she is the mother of the Scottish film director Jamie Magnus Stone, and has four other children. She lives in the village of Torrance, East Dunbartonshire. Awards and honours She has received Honorary degrees from several institutions: in 2009 a Doctorate of Letters from Glasgow Caledonian University, in 2015 an honorary degree from the University of Stirling and from the Open University on 29 October 2016. In 2007 the Institute of Contemporary Scotland awarded her a place in the Scottish Academy of Merit for services to the media. Publications References External links Sunday Morning (BBC Radio Scotland) 1955 births Alumni of the University of Edinburgh BBC Scotland newsreaders and journalists BBC Radio Scotland presenters British reporters and correspondents British women television journalists Living people Mass media people from Glasgow Scottish Christians Scottish television presenters Scottish women television presenters