1. Eddie Mair was born on 12 November 1965 and is a Scottish former broadcaster who was a presenter on BBC radio and television.
22 Facts About Eddie Mair
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Eddie Mair presented a programme on LBC between 4pm and 6pm every weekday until his last show, on 18 August 2022, after which he retired from broadcasting.
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Eddie Mair hosted BBC Radio 4's daily news magazine PM, the Radio 4 Saturday iPM, and NewsPod.
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Eddie Mair's amateur broadcasting career is reported to have started by using the public address system in his school, Whitfield High School, in the Dundee housing scheme, Whitfield.
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Eddie Mair joined the BBC in 1987 as a sub-editor for Radio Scotland.
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Eddie Mair moved on to present Good Morning Scotland and Reporting Scotland, then Eddie Mair Live in the mid-morning slot for Radio Scotland.
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Eddie Mair then joined BBC Radio 5 Live when it began in 1994 presenting the Midday with Mair news show.
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Eddie 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.
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Patrick Wintour in The Guardian commented that "Johnson's reputation had taken a severe pounding", while Dan Hodges in his Telegraph blog thought Eddie Mair's approach was a "disgrace".
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Johnson himself said that Eddie Mair had done a "splendid job".
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Eddie Mair has presented Newsnight on BBC Two and The 7 O'Clock News on BBC Three.
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Eddie Mair was the original host of the 2003 BBC Two series Time Commanders.
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From 27 to 30 October 2014, Eddie Mair guest-presented four editions of The One Show with Alex Jones on BBC One.
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Eddie Mair was the initial presenter of the BBC's podcast about the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, up until part 113 of the podcast, which concluded with part 204: The Phase 2 Report and the End of the Inquiry about the fire in Grenfell Tower in London, in September 2024.
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On 1 July 2018, Eddie Mair announced that he would depart the BBC, presenting his last PM show on 17 August 2018.
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Eddie Mair presented his final PM show on 8 August 2018, although he did not acknowledge this during the broadcast.
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On 24 March 2022, Eddie Mair announced his intention to retire from LBC that coming August.
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Eddie Mair presented his last LBC show on 18 August 2022.
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In 2005, Eddie Mair won the News Journalist award at the Sony Radio Academy Awards.
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Eddie Mair has won a Sony Award for Speech Broadcaster of the Year, one for Best Breakfast Show, and was nominated for two Sony awards for Midday with Mair on 5 Live.
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In 2012, Eddie Mair won a Gold award at the Sony Radio Academy Awards for his interview with Julie Nicholson, who lost her daughter Jenny in the London bombings of 7 July 2005.
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Eddie Mair was listed as the fifth most powerful person in British radio in a 2005 poll in the Radio Times, and 28th most influential LGBT person in The Independent on Sunday's Pink List 2013.