Mike Read
- Acting
- March 1, 1947 · Bury, Lancashire, England, UK
Biography
Michael David Kenneth Read is an English radio disc jockey, writer, journalist and television presenter. Read has been a broadcaster since 1976, best known for having been a DJ with BBC Radio 1, and television host for music chart series Top of the Pops, children's programme Saturday Superstore and music panel game Pop Quiz. He is also a prolific author, having written over 50 books, including his autobiography, Seize the Day. Read currently hosts The Heritage Chart Show on various radio stations and Talking Pictures TV. He also co-hosts The Footage Detectives with Talking Pictures TV founder Noel Cronin.
Known for
Filmography
- The Footage Detectives
- George Michael: Got to Have Faith · Self
- George Michael: Easy to Pretend
- Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned · Self
- Celebrity Coach Trip · Self
- When Moyles Met the Radio 1 Breakfast DJs · Self
- Bargain Hunt Famous Finds
- Trials and Tribulations · (archive footage)
- Cash in the Celebrity Attic · Self
- Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983 · (archival footage)
- It Started with Swap Shop · Self
- Hell's Kitchen · Self
- Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown · Self
- The Terry and Gaby Show
- Bo' Selecta!
- I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! · Self
- Top of the Pops: The True Story · Self
- Never Mind the Buzzcocks · Self
- Multi-Coloured Saturdays
- I'm Your Number One Fan · Self
- Pebble Mill · Self
- Cluedo · Self
- 8:15 from Manchester
- Only Fools and Horses · Self
- Pop Quiz
- Top of the Pops · Self, Presenter