Jasmine Birtles

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

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

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[edit]

Broadcast media[edit]

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[edit]

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]

  • A Woman's Little Instruction Book (1995, Boxtree)
  • Do You Still Miss Your Ex-Husband? Yes But My Aim Is Improving. (1996, O'Mara)
  • A Parent's Little Instruction Book (1996, Boxtree)
  • 1001 Knock Knock Jokes (1998, Robinson)
  • The Little Book of Excuses (2001, Boxtree)
  • A Girl's Best Friend Is Her Money (2002, Boxtree)
  • A Little Book of More Abuse (2002, Boxtree)
  • A Bit on the Side, 500 Ways to Boost your Income (2005, Piatkus)
  • Money Book: Control Your Money, Control Your Life (2006, Piatkus)
  • The Money Magpie (2009, Vermilion)

Public speaking[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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.

References[edit]

  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.co.uk
  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

External links[edit]

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