Career: In 1981, Marr joined The Scotsman newspaper as a trainee and junior business reporter and became parliamentary correspondent in 1984 and political correspondent in 1986. He worked for two years at The Independent and moved to become political editor at The Economist from 1988 to 1992. He then returned to the Independent as chief political commentator in 1992 and was promoted to editor in 1996. He became a columnist for The Express and The Observer in 1998 before being appointed as BBC political editor in May 2000. In 2005, he fronted a new Sunday morning programme on BBC1 called Sunday AM and it later became The Andrew Marr Show. He also presents the BBC Radio 4 programme Start the Week. He has fronted a number of documentary series, including Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain, The Diamond Queen, and Andrew Marr's History of the World. He suffered a stroke in January 2013 and was in hospital for two months. He returned to The Andrew Marr Show in September of the same year.