Bio
Andrew Marr is a British journalist and political commentator. He edited The Independent for two years until May 1998, and was political editor of BBC News from 2000 until 2005.
He began hosting a political programme Sunday AM, now called The Andrew Marr Show, on Sunday mornings on BBC One from September 2005. 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 presented 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.
He attended Dundee High School, Craigflower School in Fife, and Loretto School, Musselburgh. He then gained a BA in English from Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
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).
Broadcasting includes series on contemporary thinkers for BBC Two and Radio 4, and political documentaries for Channel 4 and BBC One's Panorama.
He has received more than a dozen major awards for writing and broadcasting – including from BAFTA, the Royal Television Society and most recently the Broadcasting Press Guild, which awarded two prizes for The Andrew Marr Show and Andrew Marr's History Of Modern Britain.
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 3 part series about the 60-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
Andrew lists his hobbies as reading (he was the chair of judges, Samuel Johnson Prize, 2001), painting and cooking.