Background
Mir was born to first-generation Pakistani immigrants and brought up in a five-bedroom detached Victorian house in the suburb of Bearsden, near Glasgow, from the age of ten.
Mir was born to first-generation Pakistani immigrants and brought up in a five-bedroom detached Victorian house in the suburb of Bearsden, near Glasgow, from the age of ten.
She graduated from the University of Bristol with an honours law degree in 1993.
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. After graduation she joined Scottish aged 21 as a trainee and read the early morning news bulletins, and presented the main news show.
Radio In 1999 Mir moved to London as a producer for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio London and started doing freelance news-reading shifts for the national radio station British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 5 Live.
She joined the station full-time in July 2001. In April 2006 she covered the weekday morning phone in programme on British Broadcasting Corporation Asian Network for a fortnight when Sonia Deol left the programme, and before Anita Rani became presenter.
She has presented items on the British Broadcasting Corporation Asian Network Report. Mir presented the Midday News on 5 Live, Monday to Friday, until 9 January 2009.
She joined British Broadcasting Corporation Scotland in April 2009 as a presenter of the Friday edition of Good Morning Scotland.
Also in 2009 she presented a series of programmes for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 on Scotland"s Year of Homecoming, as well as Colour Maine White for Radio 4, and Gay Life After Saddam for Radio 5 Live. In 2010 she replaced Anita Anand as a presenter of Radio 5 Live"s Drive programme. In March 2012, for one week, she sat in for Jeremy Vine on his British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2 programme.
On 27 September 2012 Mir announced on Twitter that she planned to leave British Broadcasting Corporation 5 Live, after 11 years with the station.
Mir presented her last 5 Live Drive on 9 November 2012. On 29 October 2012 Mir presented British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 Woman"s Hour.
She has since presented the LBC 97.3 afternoon show as a substitute for Julia Hartley-Brewer. She is a co-presenter of British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 Saturday Live (radio series).