Happy 46th birthday, Edith Bowman, Scottish radio and television host.
Born in Anstruther Fife, Edith gained her primary education from Waid Academy and then joined Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. Edith's debut television appearance was on the MTV UK as a news reader. She also hosted several shows for them.
Besides her TV shows, she has been gifted with amazing voice. In the year 2005 she participate in the show Comic Relief Does Fame Academy and win the title by performing the song named Champagne Supernova.
Bowman has also deep interest in charity programs and has been raising funds for many causes. In the May of 2008, she organised Fashion Targets Breast Cancer campaign for helping the organisation Breakthrough Breast Cancer. She has broadcast radio shows on BBC Radio 1, 2, 5, 6 & Scotland and Between 30 March 2016 and 29 September 2017 she was the presenter of the Virgin Radio UK Breakfast Show. Bowman has also been the host of British Academy (Bafta) Scotland Awards.
Edith may have spent most of her career in London, but is never away from Scotland for too long, though, making sure she comes home regularly for both work and pleasure, last years work included The Quay sessions in Glasgow and the Edinburgh Festival. And for play, with her two children, Rudy, 11, and six-year-old Spike she told the Sunday Post in an interview last October,
”With the kids, I make sure I’m up at least once every couple of months.“We had an amazing time on the last trip. The weather was insane and we were swimming in the North Sea three days in a row and went kayaking at East Neuk Outdoors.“It was fantastic – like my own childhood.”
Her bairns might have been born in and live in England, and I press this with many Anglo-Scots, they are not being brought up without knowing their heritage, Edith also says....
“They have a strong connection and interest to Scotland, whether it’s the football team, because my brother is always buying them strips for Christmas and birthdays, or literature,” she continued.“We have a Burns night at home and they do really good Scottish accents. They do brilliant versions of my dad. They roll their Rs very well.“We had the radio on the other day on the way to school and Gerry Cinnamon came on. Rudy asked if he was Scottish and said he sounded like his uncle Alex.“I said, ‘Aye, your uncle Alex wishes he sounded like Gerry Cinnamon!’ The boys are very aware of their Scottish ancestry and they get how proud I am of that.”
As I mentioned earlier Edith Bowman does a lot for charity, and with her family established The Craws Nest Trust 30 years ago, the charity is for People with disabilities or health problems and grants, donations or gifts to organisations and individuals, it marked its 30th anniversar last year with Edith hosting an Evening With Sir Chris Hoy at the Alhambra Theatre in Dunfermline, it has raised more than £600,000 has been raised in three decades and more than 180 people have benefited from renewed mobility.
Dundee band Snot Patrol also performed an acoustic gig last November for the charity.
Fans of the Netflix series The Crown, will maybe know Edith from the podcasts “ The Crown: The Official Podcast” which she presents which follows the show episode by episode.
