Andrew Marr is the host of The Andrew Marr Show on BBC One, the agenda-setting interview programme.
His first edition of the Sunday morning show was broadcast on 11 September 2005. He moved to the programme after a five-year stint as Political Editor at BBC News. Andrew also presents BBC Radio 4's Start The Week each Monday morning. He joined the programme in November 2002.
He wrote and presented Andrew Marr's History Of Modern Britain (BBC Two), winning a string of awards including a Royal Television Society award for best historical programme.
Andrew joined The Scotsman as a trainee and junior/business reporter in 1981 and became parliamentary correspondent in 1984 and political correspondent in 1986. He worked for two years at The Independent, then returned to The Scotsman as political editor in 1986. He moved to become political editor at The Economist from 1988 to 1992. He then returned to the Independent as chief political commentator in 1992 and was promoted to editor in 1996. He became a columnist for The Express and The Observer in 1998 before being appointed as BBC political editor in May 2000.
Andrew has had five books published: The Battle For Scotland (Penguin, 1992); Ruling Britannia (Penguin, 1996, 1998); The Day Britain Died (Profile, 2000); My Trade (Macmillan, 2004); and A History Of Modern Britian (2007).
His first edition of the Sunday morning show was broadcast on 11 September 2005. He moved to the programme after a five-year stint as Political Editor at BBC News. Andrew also presents BBC Radio 4's Start The Week each Monday morning. He joined the programme in November 2002.
He wrote and presented Andrew Marr's History Of Modern Britain (BBC Two), winning a string of awards including a Royal Television Society award for best historical programme.
Andrew joined The Scotsman as a trainee and junior/business reporter in 1981 and became parliamentary correspondent in 1984 and political correspondent in 1986. He worked for two years at The Independent, then returned to The Scotsman as political editor in 1986. He moved to become political editor at The Economist from 1988 to 1992. He then returned to the Independent as chief political commentator in 1992 and was promoted to editor in 1996. He became a columnist for The Express and The Observer in 1998 before being appointed as BBC political editor in May 2000.
Andrew has had five books published: The Battle For Scotland (Penguin, 1992); Ruling Britannia (Penguin, 1996, 1998); The Day Britain Died (Profile, 2000); My Trade (Macmillan, 2004); and A History Of Modern Britian (2007).
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