Heather Suttie

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Heather Suttie is a PR and Scottish TV & radio presenter, most recently on Heart Scotland.

In 2001, aged 26, she presented BBC Children's Saturday morning show Live & Kicking and was the first woman presenter of a commercial radio show in Scotland with Beat 106 in Scotland. She has written tabloid and magazine features on travel, lifestyle, environmentalism, plastic bags, recycled fashion and lifestyle and has a short book and podcasts review in Scotland’s Sunday Mail.

Career

In 1998, Suttie hosted a children's science programme Hyperlinks and was one of four presneters on ITV2's youth entertainment show when the channel launched Bedrock after auditioning with 767 other hopefuls. From 1994 to 1997, she contributed reviews on Channel 4's MovieWatch.

Suttie's first job was a late-night BBC Scotland music show the Beat Room, aged 20. In 1997 she hosted an online weekly show from London for the Mean Fiddler Group. From 2000-2010 she co-presented festival coverage for T in the Park TV, the Done and Dusted music festival and appeared on MTV Europe From 2001-2005, she presented Beat 106's Breakfast Show and drivetime shows from 2001 to 2005. From 2005 to 2008 she presented the drivetime slot on Xfm Scotland along with stints on the Cooperative In-store Radio Network. From 2014 to 2016 she presented a four-part BBC Radio Scotland series The Day I Changed My Life. Suttie's live work included Princess Productions, Done & Dusted, Blink TV, ITV2, BBC1, BBC2 and STV.

Her eco campaigns include ecomunky and Say No To Plastic, [1] with projects with The Daily Record, Aimee McWilliams and Oran Mor, hosting vintage and eco sales from 2007 to 2011. This included promotional features, and appearances on The Today programme and Jeremy Vine on BBC4 and BBC2. The Scottish Government mentioned her ideas on reducing plastic bag waste and campaigning for their 5p plastic bag charge in Scotland.

Voice-over work includes Tesco in-store radio, monster.co.uk, Clairol, Irn Bru and other radio advertisers.

In the past she hosted awards events including the CIS Excellence Awards (2003–2009), The Evening Times, Property Executive Awards (2007–2009 in Glasgow and Manchester), and a number of events for The Herald newspaper. 1999-2000 she wrote a social diary column for The Sunday Post and 2000-2010, Suttie wrote a weekly clubs column for The Evening Times. In 2018 she started writing book puffs for the Sunday Mail. Suttie blogged about a year in Tanzania in 2011 working voluntarily with the Chief Buddhist Monk of the African continent.

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References

  1. "Scots DJ Heather Suttie leads anti-plastic bag campaign". Daily Record . July 17, 2008. Retrieved 6 May 2012.