Andrew Marr
Book Andrew Marr for your event
Back »
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.
Andrew has had Six 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 Britain (2007). A History of Modern Britain part 2 (2009)
Broadcasting includes series on contemporary thinkers for BBC Two and Radio 4, and political documentaries for Channel 4 and BBC One's Panorama. More recently he has written and presented a series on Darwin and the History of Modern Britain series 2 was broadcast November 2009.
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.
For an authoritative, charismatic and witty speaker you couldn't do much better.... Andrew is available for all types of corporate work from After Dinner Speeches to Chairing Conferences.
Testimonials
Andrew was brilliant at our recent conference, thought provoking, interesting and humorous. Thanks for everything.
Schroeder's Conference.
"What a lovely man, one of the best speakers we have ever had. He gave us his thoughts on the state of the economy and the forthcoming elections and was a very charming man"
KPMG Annual Client Dinner.
Quick Search
Prime Performers Ltd. DO NOT act as a forwarding address for any of the artistes listed on this website. Under no circumstances do we issue artistes contact details or accept requests for autographs or deal with journalistic/media enquiries unless the artiste/s in question have been secured through this agency for your event.