Post by marky on Dec 11, 2010 14:10:32 GMT
Name: Andrew Marr
BBC Position: Journalist and Political Commentator
BBC Position: Journalist and Political Commentator
"Marr was born on 31 July 1959 in Glasgow, Scotland to Donald and Valerie Marr and was educated in Scotland at the High School of Dundee, Craigflower School and at Loretto, an independent school in Musselburgh, East Lothian. He went on to study English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge."
"He was once a member of the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory. At Cambridge, Marr says he was a "raving leftie", and he acquired the nickname 'Red Andy'."
"Marr lives in East Sheen, London, with his wife, the political journalist Jackie Ashley of The Guardian, whom he married in August 1987 in Surrey. She is a daughter of the Labour Life Peer Lord Ashley of Stoke. The couple have a son and two daughters." Wiki