{"id":735903,"date":"2026-08-12T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/735903\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:00:11","slug":"bbc-apologises-after-english-viewers-couldnt-understand-scottish-presenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/735903\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC apologises after English viewers couldn&#8217;t understand Scottish presenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Ralston made her debut appearance on UK national news last week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The broadcaster spent a week in London earlier this month doing forecasts on programmes including BBC News at One.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Some English viewers took to social media to say they couldn&#8217;t understand what she was saying, blaming Ralston\u2019s \u201cScottish accent\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The BBC has said that a \u201ctechnical issue\u201d caused the audio levels on the presenter\u2019s summaries to be lower than intended.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/26457198.bbc-blasted-defying-experts-gers-scottish-independence\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BBC blasted for defying experts on GERS and Scottish independence<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Some viewers did say they thought there were issues with her microphone.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A BBC spokesperson said: \u201cWe received complaints regarding the audio quality during weather forecasts presented by Judith Ralston.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Unfortunately, a technical issue affected some of Judith Ralston\u2019s weather forecasts during the first week of August, causing the audio levels to be lower than intended.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused and are pleased to confirm that the issue has now been fully resolved.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  After one of Ralston\u2019s broadcasts, one viewer wrote on X: \u201cThis new presenter on screens in England is terrible. She mumbles, is quiet, has a hard accent to always understand, not the best qualities for the job.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/26457985.snp-mp-blasts-unionist-cronies-aristocrats-plotting-probe\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SNP MP blasts &#8216;Unionist cronies and aristocrats&#8217; plotting probe<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Another viewer posted: \u201cYour new weather person Judith Ralston speaks really really quietly and is virtually incomprehensible.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, Scottish fans leapt to her defence.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  One said: \u201cI\u2019m Scottish, so I understand every word, her accent isn\u2019t the problem, her microphone however seems to be an issue as it fades in and out.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/local-news\/edinburgh-news\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Edinburgh<\/a>-born Ralston said she had enjoyed the opportunity to present from London.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She said: \u201cIt was great to get the opportunity to do it for once in my career.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe presenters down there were really great fun and I really felt at home with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ralston made her debut appearance on UK national news last week. The broadcaster spent a week in London&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":735904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-735903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}