Tracey MacLeod (born 30 October 1960 in

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) is an English journalist and broadcaster. She has presented arts and music programming, including ''

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'' (1989–95) and its musical offshoots ''New West'' and ''Words and Music'', ''Edinburgh Nights'' (1989, 1990), the

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(1990–95) and the Mercury Music Prize (1994–98). She hosted a Sunday night radio show on GLR from 1990 for several years, and was one of the launch DJs on BBC Radio 6 Music.

Biography

MacLeod attended Ipswich High School and

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. MacLeod worked as a researcher for the

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before making her on-screen debut in 1987 on

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’s youth show ''

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''. Other screen credits include channel 4’s '' A Stab in the Dark'' with David Baddiel and

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, ''All I Want – A Portrait of Rufus Wainwright'', ''

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'', '' Masterchef'', and voicing over many music documentaries and the long-running

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show '' Rapido'', presented by

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. She appeared as a guest interviewer in Sean Hughes' 1992 comedy series ''

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''. Her friend

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partly based the Jude character in ''

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'' on her, and she appeared as an extra in the literary party scene of the film, directed by Sharon Maguire. She was a team captain on the Radio 4 music quiz ''

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'', with Andrew Collins, and a regular contestant on the Radio 4 books quiz, '' The Write Stuff''. She was the restaurant critic of ''

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'' from 1997 until the paper ended its print edition in 2016, winning the

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for "Restaurant Writer of the Year" in 2003, and being awarded "Restaurant Writer of the Year" by the

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in 2008 and 2010. She has also been

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of ''

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'', and radio critic of '' The Mail on Sunday''. She is a director of the talent agency KBJ Management, where she manages TV presenters including Simon Amstell and

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. She is a regular guest critic on '' Masterchef''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Macleod, Tracey 1960 births Living people British music journalists The Independent people Radio critics British women journalists English women writers 20th-century English women writers 20th-century English writers British food writers British restaurant critics Women food writers Mass media people from Ipswich Alumni of St Aidan's College, Durham