Aasmah Mir

Aasmah Mir (born 7 October 1971; pronounced /ˌæzmə ˈmɪər/) is a Scottish television and radio broadcaster and journalist in the United Kingdom.

Mir was born to first-generation Pakistani immigrants and brought up in a five-bedroom detached Victorian house in the suburb of Bearsden, near Glasgow, from the age of ten. She graduated from the University of Bristol with an honours law degree in 1993.

In 1995 Mir had a brief stint as a reporter for the Daily Record and Sunday Mail, then became a radio researcher. In 2005 and 2006 she was a columnist for the Sunday Herald.

Mir began her career in broadcasting in 1992 appearing on a BBC TV programme called The Insiders with Gordon Kennedy. After graduation she joined Scottish Television aged 21 as a trainee and read the early morning news bulletins, and presented the main news show.

She presented a couple of editions of the documentary strand for BBC Two called East in 1996 and some items on Desi DNA. In 1998 she became a reporter for Central TV in Nottingham.

Mir has also presented Just Write on Channel 4 and Around Scotland on BBC Two. In 2010 she became a newspaper reviewer on GMTV with Lorraine and Lorraine.

In 1999 Mir moved to London as a producer for BBC Radio London and started doing freelance news-reading shifts for the national radio station BBC Radio 5 Live. She joined the station full-time in July 2001.

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