Broadcaster Edith is one of Scotland’s most experienced presenters having done everything from her own Radio One show to the BAFTAs. But she admits she was thrilled when she first got the call to host BBC Scotland’s Hogmanay show in 2021 and didn’t quite believe it.

And she is just as chuffed that she is going to be at the helm for the show again as we say goodbye to 2022.

Edith, who grew up in Fife, says: “It is part of your DNA if you are Scottish, it is so iconic. It was a real proper pinch-me moment, when I got the call for the show last year.

“I never in a million years thought I’d get a chance to do this and to get the chance to do it twice is fantastic.

“I’m really thrilled to get the chance to do it again particularly because this year we will have an audience in the room and of course we have a great line-up of guests.”

Given prevailing worries about Covid last year, the decision was taken to pull back on having an audience at relatively short notice but this year the show will have the atmosphere of members of the public being in the studio to add to the festive buzz of the event.

The headliner guest for the show is none other than multi-million selling artist and local legend Lewis Capaldi, but there is also Two Doors Down’s Joy McAvoy aka glamourous young Latimer Crescent neighbour Michelle, and sporting heroes Eilish McColgan, Eve Muirhead and footballer Lyndon Dykes.

Plus rising acting star Lauren Lyle, known to many as Marsali MacKimmie Fraser from Outlander who has also been gaining plaudits for her lead role in the recent Karen Pirie detective series.

And there will be further music from rising star Brooke Combe and award-winning Scottish Trad supergroup Mànran.

There will be a short introductory programme with Edith on BBC One Scotland at 9.50pm providing a taste of what’s to come in the main Hogmanay 2022 show which will be simulcast at 11.30pm on BBC One Scotland and the BBC Scotland channel and of course BBC iPlayer where an audience from across the UK can watch.

Building up to the Hogmanay show on BBC One Scotland, there will be Ooh the Banter with Jack Docherty celebrating the Scottish sense of humour, and Queen of the New Year comedy sketch show led by Greg Hemphill and Robert Florence. While the BBC Scotland channel will have further entertainment with Amy Irons in Not Quite End of Year Show and new comedy Paul Black’s First Footing.

It promises to be a night of great music and great guests, with a mix of emerging talent of the future and top names loved across Scotland.

And that will also be very much part of the package for Hogmanay 2022.

Says Edith: “Lewis Capaldi makes himself more comfortable with an audience by having so much banter with them, which is so lovely and amazing. You can’t beat a live audience when you have music on the go…the energy is terrific.

“And Brooke, I’m so excited for her as an artist, she’s great. And Mànran doing what they do, which is contemporary but also traditional and really beautiful. So even just on the music side of things, it is going to be good – a really great advert for all things Scottish in the world of music.

“And what can I say about our guests? Of course I love Two Doors Down! Everyone watches that show and can relate to a story or a gag in it, so to have Joy McAvoy on is amazing and likewise Lauren is a rising Scottish acting star.

“It is going to be so emotional with this line-up of Scottish sporting heroes. In preparation for the show, I’ve been re-watching that clip of Eilish McColgan and her Commonwealth run, and even now it has me in floods of tears, and also for Lyndon to be on tell us about some of this year’s stand-out moments in Scottish football and to have a hero like Eve Muirhead on is fabulous. My parents used to do curling with the Fife Curling Club so my Mum is totally made up that Eve is a guest.”

As with last year, Edith’s family are again very proud that their daughter is again bringing in the bells on TV.

Says Edith: “My Mum and Dad are amazing, they have always been so supportive but with this they knew just how much it meant to me. They are super proud and there is just such great support from the community in Fife.

“It is lovely for my Mum, she gets so many messages from people about it. There is just a real sense of goodwill and I love hearing that. I love her phoning me and saying ‘you’ll never guess who messaged me and I got all these messages on Facebook about it’. I love the idea that something I’m doing, that I absolutely love, can make my Mum feel taller; it is brilliant, it is a lovely feeling.”

Like many Scots watching the Hogmanay show has been part of Edith’s family tradition, though it was a little different given her family ran a hotel, the Craw’s Nest in Anstruther.

So when she was little she spent the bells with her grandad.

“I remember spending New Years at my Grandad’s house, because my Mum and Dad would be running the hotel and they would have a big Hogmanay gala with the guests. So up to my teen years I had the experience of staying at my Grandad’s house and you would be allowed to stay up and watch it.

“And it was that combination of Scottish faces, Scottish music, celebrating what everyone had achieved and looking forward to the coming New Year and making the most of it – that whole kind of thing really has stayed with me. And then in my teen years at the hotel, when I was waitressing it was a different experience, but even then we’d switch onto the TV for the bells.

“As for other Hogmanay traditions, I used to love going first-footing, finishing up work at the hotel when I was a teenager and then meeting up with my mates, grabbing whatever you could to take round, walking the streets freezing looking for house parties, following the noise to the best party, catching up with people... I loved it.

“The event of Hogmanay, wherever I’ve been in the world whether that has been in Australia, London or the States, and I’ve spent Hogmanay in lots of different places, it is always makes you think of home and Scotland is home.”

Part of the Hogmanay show tradition will be ‘bringing in the bells’ from the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle with the lone piper and the firing of the midnight gun followed by the magnificent fireworks display across the capital’s night sky,

Adds Edith: “It is the emotion that is connected to the whole Hogmanay thing, and of course there is Auld Lang Syne performed this year for us by Mànran. But I think the important thing is celebrating everyone’s achievements, giving everyone a bit of a pat on the back for what they were able to do in 2022 – and it has been another bit of a tricky year for people – and saying let’s really go for it for 2023.”