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Aasmah Mir
Aasmah Saira Mir (/ˈæzmə ˈmɪər/ Urdu: عاصمہ سائرہ میر; born 7 October 1971) is a Scottish television and radio broadcaster and journalist who used to co-present the Monday-Thursday breakfast programme on Times Radio.
Mir was born in Glasgow to first-generation Pakistani immigrants, father Arif Mir and mother Almas, from Raiwind on 7 October 1971 and brought up from the age of ten in the affluent suburb of Bearsden, where she attended Bearsden Academy. 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, whose sister Uzma was already working for BBC Scotland, first appeared in an episode of a 1992 BBC Scotland show called The Insiders presented by Gordon Kennedy. After graduation she joined Scottish Television aged 21 as a trainee and read the early morning news bulletins and later presented the main news show.
She presented a couple of editions of an Asian documentary strand for BBC Two called East in 1996 and some items on Desi DNA. In 1998 she became a reporter for Central Television in Nottingham.
Mir also presented episodes Just Write on Channel 4 and Around Scotland on BBC Two. In 2010 she was 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.
In April 2006 she covered the weekday morning phone-in programme on BBC Asian Network for a fortnight between Sonia Deol leaving and Anita Rani becoming presenter. She has presented items on the BBC Asian Network Report.
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Aasmah Mir
Aasmah Saira Mir (/ˈæzmə ˈmɪər/ Urdu: عاصمہ سائرہ میر; born 7 October 1971) is a Scottish television and radio broadcaster and journalist who used to co-present the Monday-Thursday breakfast programme on Times Radio.
Mir was born in Glasgow to first-generation Pakistani immigrants, father Arif Mir and mother Almas, from Raiwind on 7 October 1971 and brought up from the age of ten in the affluent suburb of Bearsden, where she attended Bearsden Academy. 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, whose sister Uzma was already working for BBC Scotland, first appeared in an episode of a 1992 BBC Scotland show called The Insiders presented by Gordon Kennedy. After graduation she joined Scottish Television aged 21 as a trainee and read the early morning news bulletins and later presented the main news show.
She presented a couple of editions of an Asian documentary strand for BBC Two called East in 1996 and some items on Desi DNA. In 1998 she became a reporter for Central Television in Nottingham.
Mir also presented episodes Just Write on Channel 4 and Around Scotland on BBC Two. In 2010 she was 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.
In April 2006 she covered the weekday morning phone-in programme on BBC Asian Network for a fortnight between Sonia Deol leaving and Anita Rani becoming presenter. She has presented items on the BBC Asian Network Report.