Mike Read
Actor
- Born
- March 1, 1947 (age 79) · Bury, Lancashire, England, UK
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
I'm Your Number One Fan
May 22, 1996
Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned
July 11, 2014
Multi-Coloured Saturdays
August 26, 1996
George Michael: Got to Have Faith
December 17, 2019
George Michael: Easy to Pretend
February 19, 2019
It Started with Swap Shop
December 28, 2006
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
March 3, 2008
Trials and Tribulations
September 30, 2008
Top of the Pops: The True Story
January 1, 2001
Acting10
- 2019George Michael: Got to Have Faith as Self
- 2019George Michael: Easy to Pretend
- 2014Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned as Himself
- 2010When Moyles Met the Radio 1 Breakfast DJs as Self
- 2008Trials and Tribulations as (archive footage)
- 2008Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983 as (archival footage)
- 2006It Started with Swap Shop as Self
- 2001Top of the Pops: The True Story as Self
- 1996Multi-Coloured Saturdays
- 1996I'm Your Number One Fan