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Profile of Andrew Marr
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Andrew Marr |
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31st July 1959 |
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Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Andrew Marr (born 31 July 1959) works as a British journalist and political commentator. He edited The Independent until May 1998 and was the political editor for the BBC from 2000 until 2005. He began hosting a new political programme on Sunday mornings on BBC One from September 2005 onwards.
Andrew Marr was born in Glasgow, educated at the High School of Dundee, Craigflower School and Loretto School in Musselburgh. He went on to read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He is married to the journalist Jackie Ashley.
Andrew joined The Scotsman as a junior business reporter in 1981. He went on to become a parliamentary correspondent in 1984 and then a political correspondent in 1986.
He wrote as a columnist for The Daily Express, The Observer, and The Economist before gaining appointment as BBC political editor in May 2000. He has taken over presenting the BBC's Sunday morning news programme, Sunday AM (previously called Breakfast with Frost) from Sir David Frost. He also hosts the BBC Radio 4 programme, Start the Week.
He was named Columnist of the Year 1995 and Columnist of the Year in British Press Awards and received the Journalist Award in the Channel 4 Political Awards of 2001.
Andrew Marr has written several books on politics and journalism, notably My Trade.
Trivia
- He appeared as himself in the 2005 series of Doctor Who, in the episodes Aliens of London and World War Three.
- Andrew Marr is often mistaken for President Putin of Russia. Marr recounts that he was once lost on his way to a briefing at the Kremlin and was spotted by two soldiers, but instead of being arrested for trespass they looked alarmed and saluted him.
- He once jokingly wrote in a newspaper that he had no idea what to get his wife, so was intending to buy her a burqa. She wrote in to the paper to say that he would probably get her the wrong size anyway.
- When writing certain columns of the Daily Telegraph, he uses the pseudonym Mr. Snuffles, Andrew Marr's pet guinea pig. When writing in this form, he uses frequent misspellings and writes solely in lower-case.
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