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    which Read covered in November that year when Freeman was ill. From January 1989 to September 1990, Read presented a weekly series, The Mike Read Collection...
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    Taylor was also a panellist on the UK quiz show Pop Quiz, hosted by Mike Read. In 2014, he appeared in The Life of Rock with Brian Pern as himself....
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  • Breakfast Time. He returned to Radio 1 on 5 May 1986, taking over from Mike Read on The Radio 1 Breakfast Show from 7.00 to 9.30 am, where he remained...
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    Heritage Chart Show with Mike Read, a pop music countdown featuring veteran acts, presented by the former Radio 1 disc jockey Mike Read and shared by Talking...
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    Hoy's solo single "We Are One", a fact which was picked up by presenter Mike Read on the programme broadcast on Talking Pictures TV on 10 April 2022. On...
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    June 2021 Dorset said, during an interview with radio and TV presenter Mike Read, that he had recovered from open-heart surgery. He added that he no longer...
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  • breakfast show for more than five years are former hosts Nick Grimshaw, Mike Read, Simon Mayo, and Chris Moyles. Moyles was the longest-serving Radio 1...
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    "Kid" Jensen (1977–1984, plus 31 December 1988) Peter Powell (1977–1988) Mike Read (1978–1989, plus 30 July 2006) Simon Bates (1979–1988) 15 December 1977...
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    of Pantomimes. AMBO (6 November 2017), Cheryl, Mike, Jay & Bobby - The Fizz - Interview with Mike Read - Part 1, archived from the original on 21 December...
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    "Heritage Chart Run Down" on Sunday evenings. In November 2020, Fox alongside Mike Read left United DJs in order to launch Nation Radio UK. Between January and...
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  • December 1984 with a Top of the Pops special on 4 January 1994 hosted by Mike Read. It was then revived from 21 May to 9 July 1994 on the same channel but...
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    Pimlico and The Lavender Hill Mob, lived there as a child. Disc jockeys Mike Read, Adrian John and David Hamilton lived in the town whilst broadcasting...
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    Shadows' "Feeling Fine" and Cliff Richard's "Do You Wanna Dance?" In Mike Read's book, The Story of the Shadows, Harris attributed the start of his depression...
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  • April 1987. It was shown on Saturday mornings with presenters including Mike Read, Sarah Greene, Keith Chegwin, and John Craven. The show was very similar...
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    Themselves by Royston Ellis with the Shadows. Consul Books. 1961. No ISBN Mike Read (1983). The Story of the Shadows: An Autobiography. Hamish Hamilton....
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  • listeners' stories have been employed by other presenters, including Radio 1's Mike Read and Jo Whiley. US singer Jenn Bostic became popular in Britain after Bates...
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  • Mike Read, a pop music countdown of videos and live performances from veteran acts, presented on Sunday nights by the former Radio 1 disc jockey Mike...
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    Mary Read (died April 1721), was an English pirate. She and Anne Bonny were among the few female pirates during the "Golden Age of Piracy". Read was likely...
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  • After leaving Blue Peter, Greene presented Saturday Superstore with Mike Read, and subsequently co-presented Going Live! with Phillip Schofield. It...
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    Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke-James Strachey, 1905–1914. Mike Read: Forever England (1997) Potter, Caroline (8 August 2014). "This Side of...
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  • weekday late night John Peel's programme. Peter Powell joins. 1978 Mike Read joins and Mike Smith and Alan Freeman both leave for a while to join Capital Radio...
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  • politician in Missouri Mike Reid (chef) (born 1982), British chef and co-host of Australian cooking television series Mike Read (born 1947), English broadcaster...
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    broadcasting on Nation Radio UK included Russ Williams and Neil Francis, with Mike Read broadcasting The Heritage Chart every Sunday at 5pm. In May 2022, broadcaster...
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  • such DJs as Tony Blackburn, Dave Lee Travis, Simon Bates, Alan Freeman, Mike Read, Peter Powell, Noel Edmonds and Jimmy Savile. Enfield's parody of Radio...
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  • who was acting as the middleman between Amatruda and Tyson's team, "Mike read the story in the Daily Mail that he would be fighting a rugby player....
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    Poetry in Motion featuring the words of Sir John Betjeman and music by Mike Read. In October 1991, Harley was invited to play the Night of the Proms, where...
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    titles, with Tim and Jo Rice, alongside Radio 1 colleague at that time, Mike Read, between 1977 and 1996. Gambaccini's own books include Love Letters, Radio...
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    on the Talking Pictures TV broadcast of The Heritage Chart Show with Mike Read. "Guardians of the Legacy" is the title track from an album issued on...
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  • following morning, Geldof appeared on the Radio 1 breakfast show with Mike Read, to promote the record further and promise that every penny would go to...
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  • that: As you know, Mike was a voracious reader of philosophy in college-so that would put him at, say 18 years old, in 1970. He read the more traditional...
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