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Annie McGuire is a Scottish reporter who presented BBC Scotland football phone-in show 'Your Call' and Sportsound. She also did guest links for Radio Scotland's New Music Zone and T in the Park coverage and stood in for presenter
Vic Galloway Michael "Vic" Galloway (born 4 August 1972) is a DJ on BBC Radio Scotland. Galloway presents a self-titled show on Radio Scotland every Monday from 9pm to 11pm and also the BBC Introducing Scotland Thursday evenings/Friday mornings from 11pm to ...
. She also wrote occasionally for the Scottish edition of ''
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''. McGuire also stood in for Tam Cowan on Off The Ball during the summer of 2015.


Life and career

Born in
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, attended St. Cuthbert's High School, Johnstone, then studied Scottish Literature at the
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, and Journalism Studies at
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. Her father was an English teacher. Her first experience of radio was Glasgow student station Subcity Radio. She has also worked on the BBC sports programme ''
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'' and appeared on ''
Reporting Scotland ''BBC Reporting Scotland'' is the BBC's national television news programme for Scotland, broadcast on BBC One Scotland from the BBC Pacific Quay, headquarters of BBC Scotland at Pacific Quay in Glasgow. History Although BBC Television was esta ...
''. Prior to working for the BBC, she worked at the
Scottish Football Museum The Scottish Football Museum is Scotland’s national museum of association football, located in Hampden Park in Glasgow. The Museum The museum houses over 2000 objects of football memorabilia, including the world's oldest cap and match ticket fr ...
and the ''
Glasgow Herald ''The Herald'' is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783. ''The Herald'' is the longest running national newspaper in the world and is the eighth oldest daily paper in the world. The title was simplified from ''The Glasgow Herald'' in ...
'' newspaper. McGuire is also a qualified football referee. She was once the 41st most eligible woman in Scotland by Scotland on ''Sunday'' magazine.


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