Marie-Louise Muir is a well known broadcaster in Northern Ireland, specialising in arts and culture on BBC Radio Ulster, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC Northern Ireland Television and on the internet with her blog “Marie-Louise Muir’s artsextra”.

She is a regular chairman of arts and culture debates, comperes live events, conducts on stage interviews in front of a live audience, and chairs panel discussions and audience question and answer sessions.

Her programmes on BBC Radio Ulster “artsextra” and “Sounds Classical” have included acclaimed interviews with Seamus Heaney, John McGahern, Edna O’Brien and The Priests. Her television work includes “Festival Nights”, BBC Northern Ireland’s coverage of the Belfast Festival at Queens and “The IFTAS”, the Irish Film and Television Awards on BBC NI .

She has also worked across other genres, including news, religion, and light entertainment,  having presented “Evening Extra” the drive time news programme, “Sunday Sequence” , the religion and ethics weekly show and most recently “Good Morning Gorgeous”,  her own series about health and beauty,  in which she learned the correct way to wash her face!

Marie-Louise studied English Literature at Trinity College Dublin. She is also a trained arts administrator, studying at University College Dublin. Her work includes Field Day Theatre Company (the theatre group set up by Brian Friel and Stephen Rea) and IMPACT 92, the 12 month arts and cultural festival in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1992.

She is a trained cellist, pianist and singer.

She is married with two children whose appetite for bedtime stories keeps her busy.

And when she isn’t broadcasting she enjoys writing and is a regular contributor to the Northern Ireland literary magazine Verbal.