Broadcaster and author Muriel Gray, who was born in Glasgow, found fame on the 1980s pop programme The Tube, which she presented alongside Jools Holland and Paula Yates.
Now as well as writing she runs an independent production company, Ideal World, with her husband Hamish Barbour.
She feared for Scotland's democracy when Brian Souter won his case to keep Section 28: "Its my faith in Scotland's soul that is so utterly and irreversibly dented that I doubt I would vote for devolution tomorrow if I had a second chance."
She fervently opposes fox hunting and appeared alongside thriller writer Frederick Forsyth in BBC Two's Counterblast programme, which debated the issue.
Last year she launched a campaign in Glasgow where parents are urged to sign a pledge promising that their children will not become vandals.
Mrs Gray, a parent of two boys, said: ''I tell them if they break their toys they will not get a new one. If you break the place where you live, then it will stay broken.''
She contributes regularly to Scotland's The Sunday Herald and is the only female rector at Edinburgh University.
