Sally Magnusson: 'I was lined up to replace Jill Dando on Crimewatch – then told I was too old'

Sally Magnusson: 'I was lined up to replace Jill Dando on Crimewatch – then told I was too old'

This article first appeared in Radio Times magazine. On 4th April, after 27 years, Sally Magnusson will present the BBC One Scotland show Reporting Scotland for the last time. But with “an explosion of grandchildren”, novels five, six and seven to be written and her charity Playlist for Life — inspired by the response to music she saw in her mother, who had dementia — it’s about making more time for other activities rather than any disenchantmen…

TV's Sally Magnusson was told she was too old to present BBC's Crimewatch

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