Anne McAlpine 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.

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.

With the emergence of BBC Alba, Anne McAlpine became a main presenter of the European current affairs programme Eòrpa, as well as taking on roles presenting various other programmes including An Là and the Scottish Gaelic-language weather.

As the broadcaster’s career progressed, she became an English-language presenter for late bulletins of Reporting Scotland on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, as well as for BBC Scotland’s rural affairs programme Landward. Since 2019, Anne McAlpine has narrated Scotland’s Home of the Year.

On radio, Anne McAlpine hosts the Gaelic-language drive time show Aithris an Fheasgair on BBC Radio nan Gàidheal four times a week.

Anne McAlpine has fronted several of her own shows for BBC Alba. In 2017, Anne McAlpine toured the North Coast 500 in a Volkswagen Beetle for her programme North Coast 500 – Le Anne Lundon. 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. Anne McAlpine similarly presented An t-Uisge/Rain Stories, a BBC Alba series discovering the influence of rain in culture and tradition
in 2022.

Anne McAlpine is based at BBC Scotland’s headquarters known as Pacific Quay in Glasgow.