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Eddie Mair
Eddie Mair (born 12 November 1965) is a Scottish former broadcaster who was a presenter on BBC radio and television. He hosted BBC Radio 4's daily news magazine PM from 2003 to 2018, and also presented companion Saturday show iPM, as well as intermittently presenting Any Questions? as a substitute for Jonathan Dimbleby. Primarily a radio presenter, he had occasional stints working for BBC television as a stand-in presenter on Newsnight, and on The Andrew Marr Show in 2013 following Marr's stroke. Mair left the BBC in August 2018, having worked for the corporation for over 30 years. He went on to present a drive time programme on LBC every weekday from September 2018 until August 2022, after which he retired from broadcasting.
Mair was born in Dundee. His amateur broadcasting career is reported to have started by using the public address system in his school, Whitfield High School, (now Braeview Academy School) in the Dundee housing scheme, Whitfield.
Mair's professional career began after he rejected a university place in order to present on Radio Tay, a local Dundee station.
Mair joined the BBC in 1987 as a sub-editor for Radio Scotland. He moved on to present Good Morning Scotland and Reporting Scotland, then Eddie Mair Live in the mid-morning slot for Radio Scotland. In 1993, he hosted Breakaway, the weekly 'travel and leisure' programme on BBC Radio 4. He then joined BBC Radio 5 Live when it began in 1994 presenting the Midday with Mair news show. From 1996 to 2000, he presented the BBC/PRI programme The World.
Mair was the host of the Sunday current affairs programme Broadcasting House from its launch in April 1998, until 2003, when he took over PM and Fi Glover became presenter of the weekly show. On both programmes, Mair mixed serious journalism with witty and satirical commentary. After reading out the weather forecast, he would invariably encourage listeners with a jaunty "Do wrap up", whether the forecast was cold or warm.
After Nick Clarke died in 2006, Mair substituted for Jonathan Dimbleby as the presenter of Any Questions?. Standing in for Andrew Marr on his Sunday morning show on 24 March 2013, Mair interviewed London Mayor Boris Johnson asking critical questions about past known misdeeds such as lying to a minister and commenting: "you're a nasty piece of work". Patrick Wintour in The Guardian commented that "Johnson's reputation had taken a severe pounding", while Dan Hodges in his Telegraph blog thought Mair's approach was a "disgrace". Johnson himself said that Mair had done a "splendid job".
Mair has also presented Newsnight on BBC Two and The 7 O'Clock News on BBC Three.
On PM, Mair had a long-running, on-air feud – real or simulated – with Robert Peston, the BBC's former Economics Editor. For leap day in 2012, Peston co-hosted the PM programme with Mair, and, in 2015, they co-hosted the show "The Robert Peston Interview Show (With Eddie Mair)"
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Eddie Mair
Eddie Mair (born 12 November 1965) is a Scottish former broadcaster who was a presenter on BBC radio and television. He hosted BBC Radio 4's daily news magazine PM from 2003 to 2018, and also presented companion Saturday show iPM, as well as intermittently presenting Any Questions? as a substitute for Jonathan Dimbleby. Primarily a radio presenter, he had occasional stints working for BBC television as a stand-in presenter on Newsnight, and on The Andrew Marr Show in 2013 following Marr's stroke. Mair left the BBC in August 2018, having worked for the corporation for over 30 years. He went on to present a drive time programme on LBC every weekday from September 2018 until August 2022, after which he retired from broadcasting.
Mair was born in Dundee. His amateur broadcasting career is reported to have started by using the public address system in his school, Whitfield High School, (now Braeview Academy School) in the Dundee housing scheme, Whitfield.
Mair's professional career began after he rejected a university place in order to present on Radio Tay, a local Dundee station.
Mair joined the BBC in 1987 as a sub-editor for Radio Scotland. He moved on to present Good Morning Scotland and Reporting Scotland, then Eddie Mair Live in the mid-morning slot for Radio Scotland. In 1993, he hosted Breakaway, the weekly 'travel and leisure' programme on BBC Radio 4. He then joined BBC Radio 5 Live when it began in 1994 presenting the Midday with Mair news show. From 1996 to 2000, he presented the BBC/PRI programme The World.
Mair was the host of the Sunday current affairs programme Broadcasting House from its launch in April 1998, until 2003, when he took over PM and Fi Glover became presenter of the weekly show. On both programmes, Mair mixed serious journalism with witty and satirical commentary. After reading out the weather forecast, he would invariably encourage listeners with a jaunty "Do wrap up", whether the forecast was cold or warm.
After Nick Clarke died in 2006, Mair substituted for Jonathan Dimbleby as the presenter of Any Questions?. Standing in for Andrew Marr on his Sunday morning show on 24 March 2013, Mair interviewed London Mayor Boris Johnson asking critical questions about past known misdeeds such as lying to a minister and commenting: "you're a nasty piece of work". Patrick Wintour in The Guardian commented that "Johnson's reputation had taken a severe pounding", while Dan Hodges in his Telegraph blog thought Mair's approach was a "disgrace". Johnson himself said that Mair had done a "splendid job".
Mair has also presented Newsnight on BBC Two and The 7 O'Clock News on BBC Three.
On PM, Mair had a long-running, on-air feud – real or simulated – with Robert Peston, the BBC's former Economics Editor. For leap day in 2012, Peston co-hosted the PM programme with Mair, and, in 2015, they co-hosted the show "The Robert Peston Interview Show (With Eddie Mair)"