Aasmah Mir is a triple award-winning broadcaster who has worked for the BBC, ITV and Times Radio over a 25 year career.
She has written extensively for the The Sunday Times – including for 3 years of the popular Week Ending column – for The Telegraph, Vogue and Good Housekeeping. She writes regularly on Substack.
Her first book – a memoir entitled A Pebble In The Throat – was published by Headline in May 2023.. The paperback of the same book is called A Glasgow Girl and was published in April 2024.
Born and brought up in Glasgow of Pakistani heritage, Aasmah graduated in law from Bristol University. At the age of 22, she became a graduate trainee with STV in Glasgow, before moving to reporting and presenting TV bulletins.
In 2001, she began working at Radio 5 Live, presenting across the network before moving in 2010 to present ‘Drive’ with Peter Allen. The programme won a Sony Gold Award in 2011 and again in 2012.
Aasmah left Radio 5 Live in 2012, after eleven years, and moved to Radio 4.
From 2014 to 2020 she co-presented ‘Saturday Live‘ on BBC Radio 4 with the Reverend Richard Coles. The programme consistently had over 2 million listeners per show.
She moved to the newly created station Times Radio in 2020 and in 2022 was named the Broadcasting Press Guild’s Audio Presenter of the Year. Aasmah left Times Radio after almost 5 years in 2025.
Aasmah has also presented and reported from landmark TV events for BBC1, including the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo (2019), Hay Festival (2019), The Centenary of Votes for Women (2018) and The Battle of Jutland Remembered (2016).
She reported for ITV during General Elections (2017, 2015). In 2014, she co-presented ‘Scotland Decides’ – ITV’s live results programme for the Scottish independence referendum.
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