Mike Read
View on IMDb ↗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
Only Fools and Horses
Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned
Bo' Selecta!
Celebrity Coach Trip
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Cluedo
Top of the Pops
Pop Quiz
Hell's Kitchen
Holly & Stephen's Saturday ShowdownFilmography (26)
- 2021The Footage Detectives
- 2019
George Michael: Got to Have FaithSelf - 2019
George Michael: Easy to Pretend - 2014
Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the BannedHimself - 2010
Celebrity Coach TripSelf - 2010When Moyles Met the Radio 1 Breakfast DJsSelf
- 2008
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983(archival footage) - 2008
Trials and Tribulations(archive footage) - 2008Bargain Hunt Famous Finds
- 2008Cash in the Celebrity AtticSelf
- 2006
It Started with Swap ShopSelf - 2004
Hell's KitchenSelf - 2004
Holly & Stephen's Saturday ShowdownSelf - 2003The Terry and Gaby Show
- 2002
Bo' Selecta! - 2002
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!Self - 2001
Top of the Pops: The True StorySelf - 1996Multi-Coloured Saturdays
- 1996
Never Mind the BuzzcocksSelf - 1996
I'm Your Number One FanHimself - 1991Pebble MillSelf
- 1990
CluedoHimself - 19908:15 from Manchester
- 1981
Only Fools and HorsesHimself - 1981
Pop Quiz - 1964
Top of the PopsSelf