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Anne McAlpine (née Morrison; previously Lundon) is a Scottish journalist, newsreader and weather presenter working for BBC Alba and BBC Scotland. She is best known for presenting Reporting Scotland and Landward, and narrating Scotland's Home of the Year.

McAlpine additionally presents many Scottish Gaelic-language programmes, including Èorpa, An Là, An Cuan Sgith (The Minch), and An t-Uisge/Rain stories.

Early life and education McAlpine was brought up as the youngest of four girls in a tight-knit Scottish Gaelic-speaking community in Newmarket, Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. McAlpine is considered very musical, playing the chanter and bagpipes until 14 when she sustained a mouth injury. She then took up the guitar and piano. After starting a law degree in Glasgow, McAlpine graduated from the University of the Highlands and Islands with a degree in Gaelic, History & Philosophy, which got her into Gaelic broadcasting.

Career Anne McAlpine first began her broadcasting career as a contributor to the Scottish Gaelic-language BBC programme Dè a-Nis?. McAlpine realised her aim of becoming a Gaelic newsreader/broadcaster at this stage, and continued to progress her career with independent production company MNE Media.

On radio, McAlpine hosts the Gaelic-language drive time show Aithris an Fheasgair on BBC Radio nan Gàidheal four times a week. In 2021, she presented An Cuan Sgith (The Minch), a six-part series produced for BBC Alba in which The Minch, a strait separating mainland Scotland and the western isles, is explored. McAlpine similarly presented An t-Uisge/Rain Stories, a BBC Alba series discovering the influence of rain in culture and tradition in 2022.

McAlpine is based at BBC Scotland's headquarters known as Pacific Quay in Glasgow. He is a former member of the 90's Britpop band The Supernaturals. They live in the west end of Glasgow.

In 2007, McAlpine represented the Western Isles in football as a defender at the 2007 Island Games in Rhodes, Greece.

In January 2026, Robert Green, a 71-year-old, was found guilty of stalking McAlpine for nearly four years. Green loitered repeatedly outside her home and sent unsolicited mail and gifts. The experience left her, she said, feeling "terrified, exposed and vulnerable".