Andrew Marr
Journalist, TV Personality
1959 –
Who is Andrew Marr?
Andrew William Stevenson Marr is a Scottish journalist and political commentator. He edited The Independent, and was political editor of BBC News. He began hosting a political programme—Sunday AM, now called The Andrew Marr Show—on Sunday mornings on BBC One from September 2005. In 2002, Marr took over as host of BBC Radio 4's long-running Start the Week Monday morning discussion programme .
In 2007 he presented a political history of post-war Britain on BBC Two, Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain, followed by a prequel in 2009, Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain, focusing on the period between 1901 and 1945. In 2010, he presented a series, Andrew Marr's Megacities, examining the life, development and challenges of some of the largest cities in the world. In early 2012 he presented The Diamond Queen, a three-part series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. In late September 2012, Marr began presenting Andrew Marr's History of the World, a new series examining the history of human civilisation.
Following a stroke in January 2013, Marr was in hospital for two months. He returned to presenting The Andrew Marr Show on 1 September 2013.
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- Born
- Jul 31, 1959
Glasgow - Also known as
- Andrew William Stevenson Marr
- Spouses
- Jackie Ashley
(1987 - )
- Jackie Ashley
- Nationality
- Scotland
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- High School of Dundee
- University of Cambridge
- Loretto School
- Lived in
- Glasgow
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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