Sheena McDonald

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Sheena McDonald
William J. G. McDonald
(father)

Sheena Elizabeth McDonald (born 25 July 1954, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland) is a Scottish journalist and broadcaster.

Early life

She was the daughter of Very Rev

William J. G. McDonald, minister of Mayfield church in Edinburgh, and Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1989. He himself was a broadcaster, contributing to Thought for the Day for many years.[1]

She was a pupil at

George Watson's Ladies College,[2] and then read English at the University of Edinburgh from where she graduated in 1976 before gaining a postgraduate certificate in radio, film and television studies from the University of Bristol. Whilst at university in Edinburgh, she had a relationship with then-Rector Gordon Brown.[3] She also co-founded the Edinburgh Festival Fringe newspaper Festival Times with Garfield Kennedy
.

Broadcasting

In 1978 she began her professional broadcasting career as a producer and presenter at

After Dark and International Question Time and, in 1995, she received the first-ever 'Woman in Film and Television' Award.[4]

Accident

In February 1999 she was struck by a police van on its way to a 999 call in Clerkenwell, London.[5] She sustained head injuries, and it was almost five years before she returned to television, in a biographical documentary in which she spoke of her recuperation process and coming to terms with the psychological effects of her injury.[6][7]

In 2019 she wrote a book Rebuilding Life after Brain Injury: Dreamtalk for a series presenting brain injury survivor stories, describing in detail her injury and the progression of her recovery, with contributions and commentary from her husband Allan Little and her rehabilitation specialist Gail Robinson.

Personal life

She married BBC reporter Allan Little in 2006. The two have been together since 1993.[8]

Presenting roles

McDonald's presenting roles have included:

Television

Radio

References

  1. ^ "Tribute to former Moderator of the General Assembly the Very Rev Dr William McDonald". www.churchofscotland.org.uk. Archived from the original on 19 December 2016.
  2. ^ Sheena McDonald (Class of 1972), George Watson's Ladies College 150th Anniversary website. Accessed 2022-11-02
  3. ^ Brian Wheeler The Gordon Brown story, BBC News, 27 June 2007
  4. ^ a b CastleFM application for the Edinburgh Radio Licence Archived 25 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine, 2004; page 7
  5. ^ Sheena McDonald, Am I still me?, BBC News, 16 January 2004
  6. ^ Sheena McDonald, Is that me in the mirror?, The Observer, 18 January 2004
  7. Storyville, BBC Four
    , 20 January 2004, repeated 1 August 2004
  8. Sunday Post
    , 2 May 2022
  9. ISBN 978-0-906391-31-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link
    )
  10. ^ "Sheena McDonald". Curtis Brown. Archived from the original on 9 February 2013.
  11. ^ Talking Point Archived 9 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine Teachers TV
  12. BBC Programme Index
    . Accessed 2022-11-02
  13. ^ Boyd McAdam, Mayfield Radio's half century, Grapevine, Mayfield Salisbury Parish, July/August 2021, pp 8-11

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