Tracey MacLeod

Tracey MacLeod is a journalist and broadcaster who has presented a range of BBC arts and music programming, including "The Late Show" 1989-95 and its musical offshoots New West and Words and Music, Edinburgh Nights (1989, 1990) The Booker Prize (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 6 Music. She worked as a researcher at the BBC before making her on-screen debut in 1987 on Channel 4’s youth show Network 7. Other screen credits include channel 4’s A Stab in the Dark with David Baddiel and Michael Gove, All I Want – A Portrait of Rufus Wainwright, Kitchen Criminals, and voicing over many music documentaries and the long-running BBC2 show Rapido, presented by Antoine de Caunes .

She was a team captain on the Radio 4 music quiz All the Way From Memphis, with Andrew Collins, and a regular contestant on the Radio 4 books quiz, The Write Stuff.

She has been the restaurant critic of "The Independent" since 1997, winning the Glenfiddich award for Restaurant Writer of the year in 2003, and was awarded Restaurant Writer of the Year by the Guild of Food Writers [http://www.gfw.co.uk/awards/?sub=14] in 2008. She has also been literary editor of Marie Claire, and radio critic of the Mail on Sunday.

She is a director of the talent agency KBJ Management [http://www.kbjmgt.co.uk/company.php] , where she manages TV presenters including Simon Amstell and Kevin McCloud.

External links

* [http://www.pbjmgt.co.uk] Tracey MacLeod's agent
* [http://www.kbjmgt.co.uk] KBJ Management
* [http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/reviews/] Independent newspaper reviews