Mike Read
Born: 1947-03-01 in Bury, Lancashire, England, UK
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2014
2010
- Celebrity Coach Trip as Self
- When Moyles Met the Radio 1 Breakfast DJs as Self
2008
- Bargain Hunt Famous Finds
- Cash in the Celebrity Attic as Self
- Trials and Tribulations as (archive footage)
- Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983 as (archival footage)
2006
- It Started with Swap Shop as Self
2004
- Hell's Kitchen as Self
- Holly & Stephen's Saturday Showdown as Self
2002
2001
- Top of the Pops: The True Story as Self
1996
- Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self
- Multi-Coloured Saturdays
- I'm Your Number One Fan as Himself
1991
- Pebble Mill as Self
1990
- Cluedo as Himself
- 8:15 from Manchester
1981
- Only Fools and Horses as Himself
- Pop Quiz
1964
- Top of the Pops as Self