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Unable to sleep? Someone's snoring getting you down? Got an overnight journey to endure? Then why not tune in to Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio Scotland's overnight election results programme...(How am I doing?) It's not an easy sell, is it? Stay up all night to listen to an election. I've lost count of the number of these programmes I've done when a point comes - usually about 4 am - when somebody says out loud: Is anybody out there listening? But of course people are doing just that. It's amazing how many people are up and active at that hour...mums with babies, students reading, delivery drivers, supermarket shelf stackers, oil rig workers, the public servants we rely on like police, fire and health staff and many others in bed drifting in and out of sleep.

In the same way you can drift in and out of the programme and get our regular updates on the counts around Scotland, the trend of results, argument from the politicians, analysis from our academic experts and polemic from commentators. We even cover the results from Wales and Northern Ireland and the English council election (clues here about attitudes to the coalition) and of course the . Come to think of it - how will we fit it all in? The other big draw though is that my co-presenter this time is Ken Macdonald, as seasoned an observer as you'll find and definitely a political heavyweight. When , Ken and I worked together in Washington to bring the news to a Scottish audience so we should cope with Scotland. We go on air between 22:00, when the polls close, and 22:30 and then return at midnight and turn into the caffeine twins until Good Morning Scotland at 6am. You can send us messages and questions as we go along. Remember...you can hear it first on Radio Scotland (providing we stay awake).