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Mark Radcliffe (born 29 June 1958) is an English radio broadcaster, musician and writer. He is best known for his broadcasting work for the

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, for which he has worked in various roles since the 1980s. Radcliffe began his broadcasting career in local commercial radio in

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before a move to the national station BBC Radio 5, where he met and formed a partnership with

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, a former guitarist with the Fall. In 1991 he moved to

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, closely followed by Riley with whom, under the moniker Mark and Lard, he worked for 11 years on the station. The pair's stint on Radio 1 included a brief and opinion-dividing spell on the flagship ''

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'' and a subsequent afternoon slot show that garnered three prestigious

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. When the Mark and Lard duo left BBC Radio 1 in 2004, Radcliffe joined BBC Radio 2 and has also presented various TV shows for the BBC, including its coverage of the Glastonbury Festival. He remains a presenter on BBC Radio 2, where he presents the weekly programme ''The Folk Show''. On

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, he co-hosts the weekend breakfast show with

Stuart Maconie Stuart Maconie (born 13 August 1961) is an English radio DJ and television presenter, writer, journalist, and critic working in the field of pop music and popular culture. He is currently a presenter on BBC Radio 6 Music where, alongside Mark ...

; they previously co-presented the weekday afternoon show on the same channel, and before that the evening show on Radio 2.

Personal life

Radcliffe was born in

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, Lancashire, and educated at

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and the

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, where he studied English, American Studies and Classical Civilisation. He took an interest in music from a young age, playing drums in numerous bands while at school and university and into his working life. As of 2007, he lives in

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, Cheshire; he is married to Bella Sharp (since 1997), with three daughters (1 from his first marriage), and became a grandfather in October 2008. In July 2011, he was awarded an honorary

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from the

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. On 3rd October 2018, he announced on his BBC Radio 2 show that he had "cancerous tongue and lymph node issues" and he would take a break from his radio broadcasting for a while. Radcliffe returned to the show on 13 February 2019.

Radio and music

During his student years, Radcliffe was a member of a number of bands, including a short stint as the drummer for the band

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but left before their later transformation into a white power group. Radcliffe's radio career began in late 1982 at

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, where he hosted a Friday night show called ''Cures For Insomnia''. He later hosted ''Transmission'', an eclectic show playing local and nationally recognised new wave and

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bands as well as European

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and

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Radio 5 career

Radcliffe came to prominence as a DJ on BBC Radio 5's ''Hit the North'' in 1990, but also appeared on other shows such as ''Cult Radio''. Nearly twenty years later, in 2009, he briefly stood in as a presenter on BBC Radio 5 Live, the station that replaced it, to cover

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's afternoon show.

BBC Radio 1

Radcliffe's

career began in 1983 when he produced sessions at

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for John Peel's show. In 1991, he started presenting the one-hour Monday evening show '' Out on Blue Six''. Starting in early 1993, he presented the arts programme ''The Guest List'' on Thursdays. Also in 1993, Radcliffe presented ''Skyman'', an odd show that he presented in character as a visiting alien, and all the records played were space-related. This half-hour show aired immediately before ''Out on Blue Six'' on Monday evenings. His most famous work was as part of the act Mark and Lard (with Marc ''"The Boy Lard"'' Riley) on Radio 1. The duo began in a 10pm–midnight slot, the

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, on Mondays to Thursdays in October 1993. Mark and Lard hosted a show of unprecedented variety, incorporating poetry readings from regular guest Ian McMillan, off the wall, irreverent comedy, bizarre quizzes 'Fish or Fowl', 'Bird or Bloke', 'Bard or Blake' (amongst others), and a playlist that rivalled John Peel in terms of eclecticism. The show also held some of the best sessions from up and coming and alternative bands of the time, including

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, Nick Cave,

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, Cardiacs,

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and Mice. Radcliffe is also credited with the success of

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's "

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" in January 1997. Following Chris Evans' sudden departure from Radio 1 in early 1997, Radcliffe and Riley were moved to a brief and unsuccessful position on the breakfast show. Their style of music and broadcasting was not a success in this slot, which catered for a more mainstream audience, and they were soon moved into the early afternoon slot where they resided for the next seven years. This show was a success and saw them win three Sony Gold awards for Best Daily Music Show.

BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 6 Music

Radcliffe left Radio 1 in March 2004 and moved to BBC Radio 2 in June of the same year, with Riley moving to

. The new show was reminiscent of the graveyard slot he had previously occupied on BBC Radio 1; with live music and studio guests and ran between 10:30pm and midnight. The respect Radcliffe had garnered as a broadcaster was cemented when he scooped a major interview with

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in late 2005, her first in several years. For many months prior to this, he had been running his own 'Bush-O-Meter' on his show, questioning the possible whereabouts and activities of the elusive singer-songwriter and adding a photo of the day's guest or the 'Blessed Kate' to the chart until she appeared on the show. Radcliffe also won a Sony award for this show. Starting on 16 April 2007, Radcliffe joined forces with

to present a new show on BBC Radio 2 on Mondays to Thursdays from 8–10pm to much critical acclaim, including winning the prestigious Sony award for best Radio show of 2009. From April 2010, the show was reduced to three nights a week, Mondays to Wednesdays. For a time, he was a frequent stand-in in partnership with

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or Liza Tarbuck during the 2–5pm slot when Steve Wright was away on holiday, thus taking him back to afternoon radio, and also stood in for

on BBC Radio 5 Live on a few occasions. In 2009, Radcliffe reunited with Marc Riley to make a series of radio adverts for

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that were broadcast in North West England. In spring 2011, his show with Maconie moved to BBC Radio 6 Music, in the weekday afternoon slot. Radcliffe also presented his own weekly solo show on BBC Radio 2, called ''Mark Radcliffe's Music Club'', and in 2013 he took over the presentation of BBC Radio 2's weekly folk programme from

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. His weekday afternoon show with Maconie was moved on 21 December 2018 to the weekends while he was undergoing treatment for cancer. Maconie had broadcast solo while Radcliffe was away for treatment, but Radcliffe joined Maconie for the last hour of the weekday show. He rang in at home on the first weekend breakfast show on 12 January 2019, and then he rejoined Maconie on a permanent basis from 2 February 2019 and Radcliffe also rejoined to BBC Radio 2 on 13 February 2019.

Band member

Radcliffe experienced brief commercial success with

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, a parody band (its name based on the short-lived band The Seahorses) spawned from his Mark And Lard antics. Earlier in his career, he had played in other bands, including the band

(briefly, before their reincarnation as a

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band, in which he played no part). Radcliffe has written about his part in this band in his book ''Showbusiness''. As of 2007, Radcliffe was a member of the more

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-orientated The Family Mahone which evolved into the group Mark Radcliffe & Foes. He also fronted the Dr. Feelgood tribute band Mark Radcliffe & the Big Figures and the pirate-themed band Galleon Blast. Radcliffe is also co-writer and performer in an avant-garde electronic duo UNE with Paul Langley and performs percussion and backing vocals with the band Fine Lines, who will be supporting Kiefer Sutherland on his 2022 UK tour.

Television

Radcliffe presented a live music TV programme, ''The White Room'', for four series on

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from 11 June 1994 to 23 August 1996, and has regularly appeared in both

and the

...
's coverage of the Glastonbury Festival, as well as the latter's broadcasts from the

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. Along with

, he presented a music-based quiz programme, ''Pop Upstairs Downstairs'', for the BBC/

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digital TV channel UK Play in 1999 and 2000. He also presented the

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football retrospective show ''Match of the Nineties'', which aired in summer 1999. In 2006, he won the ITV singing competition ''

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'' with an appearance portraying

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front-man

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singing "

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". In 2009, he took over from Steve Wright as the presenter of ''

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''. He presented the BBC Four documentary ''The Richest Songs in the World'', which counted down the 10 most successful songs of all time in terms of money earned. The

were due to appear in an episode of the sitcom ''

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'' as the folk band Half a Shilling, but had concerns about the potentially racist content of the part they were to play. They were replaced at the last minute by Tim Healy. In 2014, Radcliffe was the narrator of

's ''Call the Council''. In 2021, he presented ''Live from the Edge'', a 13-part music series shown on Showcase TV (Sky channel 191) from Edge Recording Studio, with performances by bands like The Sherlocks, Sea Fever and

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. Radcliffe was also one of a number of music experts hired by Viacom International Studios UK, to comment on the best selling chart hits of the 1980s and 1990s, for a number of Friday night music countdowns on Channel 5 (with the shows being known under various titles such as ''Greatest Hits of the 80s'', or ''Britain's Biggest 90s Hits'').

Writing

Radcliffe wrote the autobiographical ''Showbusiness: The Diary of a Rock 'N' Roll Nobody''; a critically acclaimed history of his attempts at a career as a musician, including his exploits with

. His novel ''Northern Sky'', based around a

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club in an imaginary Northern English city, was published in 2005. A book of anecdotes about his life and career, ''Thank You For the Days'' was published in 2009. Another memoir, ''Reelin' in the Years'', was published in 2011. ''Crossroads: In Search of the Moments that Changed Music'', a "personal journey" through music history, was published in September 2019.

Producing

Radcliffe started his BBC Radio career in 1983, where he worked as a producer, producing sessions for John Peel featuring artists such as Billy Bragg. Radcliffe was a producer of ''

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'' for

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from series 1 to series 6.Cast & Crew
''British Comedy Guide''. Retrieved 16 July 2021.

References

External links

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''Radcliffe and Maconie''
(BBC Radio 6 Music)
''The Folk Show with Mark Radcliffe''
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