Andrw Marr has said his marriage to Jackie Ashley is "better" following his stroke. Andrew, 57, suffered a stroke in January , and was in hospital for two months.
He admitted that he tries to conceal the effect of his stroke from his viewers when he records the political programme. Andrew's stroke was almost certainly brought on by him overdoing things — the night before he tried to row 5km in 20 minutes on his rowing machine. Initially his family were told it was unlikely he would survive, and were then informed that he would be unable to speak and confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. The star said he was initially in denial about how "disabled" he was — but reality gradually sank in, "I was never suicidal.
I was upset," he said. Andrew suffered a stroke in January that left him in hospital for two months. Andrew Marr wife: Andrew Marr says wife Jackie saved his live. Marr said: "Jackie saved my life. Without her, I wouldn't be here. How Andrew Marr was accused of bias over Scottish independence. On 26 April , following legal action by Private Eye editor Ian Hislop , an interview with Marr was published in the Daily Mail, in which he revealed that the super-injunction had covered the reporting of an extra-marital affair with a female journalist.
Hislop had filed a court challenge earlier in April , and described the super-injunction as "pretty rank". Towards the end of the interview, Marr told Brown he wanted to ask about:.
The following year, he contributed a three-part series called Darwin's Dangerous Idea to the BBC Darwin Season, celebrating the bicentenary of Charles Darwin and the th anniversary of the publication of his theory of evolution. On 28 June , Richard Ingrams reported in The Independent that Marr had been granted a High Court "super-injunction" preventing disclosure in the media of "private" information, or the existence of the injunction.
Private Eye had revealed the existence of the injunction earlier in the week, having successfully challenged the need for its existence to be kept secret. In , he presented a series, Andrew Marr's Megacities the title distinguishes it from another Megacities series , examining the life, development and challenges of some of the largest cities in the world.
He presented the series of five one-hour documentaries chronicling the history of Britain from to Unsold copies of the book of the series, a best-seller, were recalled in March by publishers Macmillan when legal action was taken over false claims that domestic violence campaigner Erin Pizzey had been a member of The Angry Brigade terrorist group.
According to her own account, in a Guardian interview in , Pizzey had been present at a meeting when they discussed their intention of bombing Biba, a fashion store, and threatened to report their activities to the police. Damages were paid to Pizzey and Marr's book was republished with the error removed. In The Daily Telegraph, in , he said that he was a libertarian when discussing his conflicting views on smoking bans. Writing in The Guardian in , he defined himself as a "pampered white liberal" and said that:.
He was considered for honorary membership of The Coterie for He stated: "The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities, and gay people.
It has a liberal bias, not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias. Marr also presented the BBC Radio 4 programme Start the Week until his illness in , and has now returned as the programme's regular host. Marr was then a columnist for the Daily Express and The Observer.
I think you get that by being polite. Marr was criticised for interviewing the French Front National leader, Marine Le Pen, in an edition of his show broadcast on Remembrance Sunday last year.
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