Jasmine Birtles

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Jasmine Birtles
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NationalityBritish
Alma mater Christ's College, Cambridge
Occupation(s)Author,
Journalist,
Television presenter,
Entrepreneur

Jasmine Birtles is a financial and business journalist, author and presenter. [1]

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She has made appearances on several British television programmes, principally addressing financial and property matters from the point of view of the consumer.

Financial journalism

Broadcast media

Birtles presented debt documentary The Insider for Channel 4. She is a financial commentator for This Morning , Good Morning Britain, BBC News, Channel 4 News, Channel 5 News and The Wright Stuff . She is also a regular guest on radio programmes including the BBC's You and Yours , [2] Steve Wright in the Afternoon, [3] Radio 2, Radio 5 Live and BBC local radio and commercial stations.

Writing

Birtles has monthly money columns in Reader's Digest , [4] Closer magazine, and Prima Baby. She has written for a number of other newspapers and magazines in the past. In addition, she has written several e-books, and almost forty physical books, including the best seller A Little Book of Abuse (2000, Boxtree) and her latest publication Beat the Banks! [5] (2010, Vermilion). Other titles include: [6]

Public speaking

As a public speaker [7] Birtles has spoken at conferences for a wide variety of companies and organisations. [8]

She performed a one-woman show – a humorous take on money management – at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2005, [9] called "How to be Rich Without Really Trying".

Travel writing

Birtles is on the expert panel for The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, a columnist for Family Traveler and regularly writes about travel on Moneymagpie.com.

Background

Birtles attended Brighton and Hove High School. She won a scholarship to read English at Christ's College, Cambridge, where she was a member of Cambridge Footlights and performed with the Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society. After university performed briefly as an actress and toured with a production of Don't Dress for Dinner . She occasionally performs stand-up comedy. She once compered her own comedy club, The Giggling Elk.

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References

  1. 'Once women understand money, they do much better than men' The Independent, 10 May 2003
  2. Birtles, Jasmine (14 October 2009). "The search for 'green shoots'". BBC. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  3. Birtles, Jasmine. "Steve Wright in the Afternoon". BBC Radio 2. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  4. Reader's, Digest. "Podcasts". Reader's Digest. Archived from the original on 9 September 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  5. Birtles, Jasmine. "Beat the Banks". Vermilion. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  6. Jasmine Birtles Amazon
  7. Speakers, Corner. "Jasmine Birtles" . Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  8. Jasmine Birtles Archived 24 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine City Speakers International, 2010
  9. How To Be Rich Without Really Trying Chortle, 2005