Andrew Marr

Andrew Marr

Andrew William Stevenson Marr (born 31 July 1959) is a British journalist and political commentator. He edited The Independent (1996-1998), and was political editor of BBC News (2000-2005). He began hosting a political programme — Sunday AM, now called The Andrew Marr Show — on Sunday mornings on BBC One from September 2005. Marr also hosts the BBC Radio 4 programme Start the Week.

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.