Aasmah Mir (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Aasmah Mir is a BBC presenter. Mir was born to first-generation Pakistani immigrants and brought up in the middle class suburb of Bearsden, near Glasgow. She graduated from the University of Bristol with an honours law degree in 1993. She passed an entrance exam to study law at Oxford University, but failed at the interview stage. 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 sho