Mark Radcliffe Biography|Mark Radcliffe Wiki

Mark Radcliffe is an English broadcaster, musician and writer. He was born on 29 June 1958 in Bolton, Lancashire, England.

He was educated at Bolton School and the University of Manchester, where he studied English and American studies and classical civilization. In July 2011 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Bolton.

Mark Radcliffe’s radio career began in late 1982 at Piccadilly Radio, where he hosted a Friday night show called Cures For Insomnia. He later hosted Transmission, an eclectic show playing local and nationally recognized New Wave and Post-Punk bands as well as European avant-garde and electronic music.

He 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.

Radcliffe’s BBC Radio 1 career started in 1983 when he produced sessions at Maida Vale Studios 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.

His most famous work was a part of the act Mark and Lard on BBC Radio 1. Following Chris Evans’ sudden departure from BBC Radio 1 in early 1997, Radcliffe and Riley were moved to a brief and unsuccessful position on the breakfast show.

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.

Radcliffe left Radio 1 in March 2004 and moved to an evening slot on BBC Radio 2 in June of the same year, with Riley moving to BBC Radio 6 Music.

Mark Radcliffe Age

He was born on 29 June 1958 in Bolton, Lancashire, England.

Mark Radcliffe Family|Mark Radcliffe Brother

He has a brother by the name Joe and a sister by the name Jaine. They both have two children each while mark has three, so there’s quite a gang now. None of them has gone very far. Everyone lives around Manchester and Bolton, their mum and dad were born and grew up.

Mark Radcliffe Wife|Mark Radcliffe Son

on the 19th April 1997, Mark married his long-time girlfriend, Bella Sharpe in their home village of Great Budworth, Cheshire. The husband and wife are blessed with a daughter, Holly Radcliffe. However, their marriage ended in a divorce.

Later, he married Jenifer Radcliffe. Jenifer is a journalist, reporter, and lecturer. From his second wife, he has two daughters: Mia and Rose. Mark is close to his family and believes that his family is the most important part of his life. He became a grandfather in October 2008.

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Mark Radcliffe Producer

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 is a producer of Count Arthur Strong’s Radio Show for BBC Radio 4.

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Mark Radcliffe is an American film producer and one of the producers of the first three Harry Potter films. He’s a producer and partner of 1492 Pictures, which produced the first three of the films, with Chris Columbus. Despite having the same surname, he is not related to Daniel Radcliffe, who portrayed Harry Potter in the Harry Potter films.

Mark Radcliffe DLA Piper

DLA Piper announced that Mark Radcliffe, a Silicon Valley-based partner, had been named to the Recorder’s 2019 list of California Trailblazers.

He was recently named a co-leader of the Blockchain and Digital Assets practice, which offers strategic advice on a global basis to address the needs of companies implementing blockchain technology solutions and creating and deploying digital assets.

In highlighting the many paths Radcliffe has paved, the editors noted that he has been a leader during both the “open-source software revolution to the emergence of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.” And they added that “his career has undergone continual reinvention.”

Radcliffe’s practice is split evenly between corporate securities (particularly venture capital transactions) and intellectual property licensing and strategy.

He works with technology companies and companies that use technology throughout the world. Currently, he is particularly focused on the use of blockchain technology and the use of tokens for capital formation and implementing new business models.

Mark Radcliffe BBC Breakfast

Radcliffe began his broadcasting career in local commercial radio in Manchester before a move to the national station BBC Radio 5, where he met and formed a partnership with former the Fall guitarist Marc Riley.

In 1991 he moved to BBC Radio 1 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 The Radio 1 Breakfast Show and a subsequent afternoon slot show which garnered three prestigious Sony Radio Academy Awards.^[1]

When the Mark and Lard duo departed BBC Radio 1 in 2004, Radcliffe joined BBC Radio 2 and has also presented various TV shows for the BBC including their coverage of the Glastonbury Festival.

He remains a presenter on BBC Radio 2, where he presents the weekly programme The Folk Show. On BBC Radio 6 Music he co-hosts the weekend breakfast show with Stuart Maconie.

Mark Radcliffe Band

Radcliffe experienced brief commercial success with Shirehorses, 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 Skrewdriver (briefly, before their reincarnation as a white power skinhead band, in which he played no part).

Mark has written about his part in this band in his book Showbusiness. As of 2007, Radcliffe was a member of the more folk-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. Mark is also a co-writer and performer in an avant-garde electronic duo UNE with Paul Langley.

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Broadcaster, musician, and accomplished author, Mark Radcliffe recently lost his father, and then was diagnosed with cancer. The book also reflects on this; Mark reaching a crossroads in his life.

Standing at the crossroads – the Mississippi crossroads of Robert Johnson and the devil’s infamous meeting – Mark Radcliffe found himself facing his own personal crunch point. Aged sixty, he had just mourned the death of his father, only to be handed a diagnosis of mouth and throat cancer.

This momentous time in his life, and being at the most famous junction in music history, led Radcliffe to think about the pivotal tracks in music and how the musicians who wrote and performed them – from Woodie Guthrie to Gloria Gaynor, Kurt Cobain to Bob Marley – had reached the crossroads that led to such epoch-changing music.

In this warm, intimate account of music and its power to transform our lives, Radcliffe takes a personal journey through these touchstone tracks, looking at the story behind the records and his own experiences as he goes in search of these moments.

Mark Radcliffe was interviewed by Dave Haslam about his new book on Tuesday 10th September at the Dancehouse Theatre, Manchester. It included opportunities for audience questions, book buying, and a signing session. The book is now available for pre-order.

Mark Radcliffe BBC Radio 1

Radcliffe’s Radio 1 career started in 1983 when he produced sessions at Maida Vale Studios 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 which 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 a part of the act Mark and Lard (with Marc “The Boy Lard” Riley) on BBC Radio 1.

The duo began in a 10 pm-midnight slot on Mondays to Thursdays in October 1993. This show was unique for Radio 1 because it was based around non-playlist music and featured live music sessions, poetry readings, and comedy.

Having taken over the graveyard slot from October 1993 onwards, Radcliffe and Riley 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 Throwing Muses, Moloko, Nick Cave, Pulp, The Bluetones, Babybird, The Divine Comedy, Placebo, and Mice. He is also credited with the success of White Town’s “Your Woman” in January 1997.

Following Chris Evans’ sudden departure from BBC 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.

Mark Radcliffe BBC Radio 2|Mark Radcliffe BBC Radio 6

Radcliffe left Radio 1 in March 2004 and moved to an evening slot on BBC Radio 2 in June of the same year, with Riley moving to BBC Radio 6 Music.

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 10:30 pm and midnight.

The respect Radcliffe had garnered as a broadcaster was cemented when he scooped a major interview with Kate Bush 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 Stuart Maconie to present a new show on BBC Radio 2 on Mondays to Thursdays from 8 pm-10 pm to much critical acclaim, including winning the prestigious Sony Award for the 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 Emma Forbes or Liza Tarbuck during the 2 pm-5 pm slot when Steve Wright was away on holiday, thus taking him back to afternoon radio, and also stood in for Simon Mayo on BBC Radio 5 Live on a few occasions.

In 2009, Radcliffe reunited with Marc Riley to make a series of radio adverts for Manchester City F.C. 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 Mike Harding.

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 on his own while Radcliffe was away for treatment, but Radcliffe joined Maconie for the last hour of the weekday show. He rang in on the first-weekend breakfast show on 12 January 2019, and then he rejoined Stuart on a permanent basis from 2 February 2019.

Mark Radcliffe Books

Reelin’ in the Years: The Soundtrack of a Northern Life
Thank You for the Days: A Boy’s Own Adventures in Radio and Beyond
Northern Sky
Showbusiness – The Diary of a Rock’N’Roll Nobody
Gabriel’s Angel
Stranger Than Kindness
Mark Radcliffe Show
Frank Sidebottom Out of His Head: The Authorised Biography of Chris Sievey
Show Business
Seven Ages of Nursing

Mark Radcliffe Awards

Sony Gold AwardWinner – Music Broadcaster of the Year – 2009
The Sony Gold Award for Music Programming – The Mark Radcliffe Show – 2001
Sony Gold Award for Best Daytime Music Show – The Mark Radcliffe Show – 1999
Sony Gold Award for Best Daytime Music Show – The Mark Radcliffe Show – 1998
Melodymaker Best Radio DJ’s of the Year – The Mark Radcliffe Show – 1998
NME Best Radio DJ’s of the Year – The Mark Radcliffe Show – 1998
Out On Blue Six – Sony Gold Award for Best Specialist Music Programming – 1992

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Mark Radcliffe Biography Summary

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1958: Born in a hospital in Bolton.

1963 – 1976: Goes to Bolton School in blazer.

1976 – 1979: Goes to Manchester University doing English and American Studies. Buys book.

1979 – 1983: Works as a producer at Manchester’s Piccadilly Radio. Buys Ford Escort.

1983 – 1985: Works as a producer at Radio One, London working on magazine programs, outside broadcasts, and John Peel. Buys a bomber jacket.

1985 – 1986: Works as Head of Music for Piccadilly Radio. Discovers inherent unsuitability for management roles. Buys Media Guardian every Monday looking for a new job.

1986: Joins BBC Manchester to produce Radio One and Two programs including ‘The Organist Entertains’. Buys a Casio keyboard.

1990: Presents Hit The North for BBC Radio 5. Buys chutney.

1991: Presents Out on Blue Six and The Guest List for Radio One. Buys a terraced house near Stockport.

1997: Briefly presents Radio One Breakfast Show with Marc Riley. Discovers unsuitability for early shifts.

Buys time. Moves to Radio One afternoon show. Stays for nearly seven years. Wins three Sony Awards. Buys convertible. Makes two ‘smash hit’ albums with The Shirehorses. Publishes memoirs of life in crap bands: “Showbusiness – Diary of a rock ‘n’ roll nobody”.

2004: Joins Radio 2 to host a late-night show. Receives two Sony nominations. Buys a bottle of Night Nurse.

2005: Publishes first novel: “Northern Sky”. Makes three albums with The Family Mahone.

2006: Career highlight as Mark wins “Celebrity Stars in their eyes” with a suspiciously Cornish Shane MacGowan.

2007: Takes pity on Stuart Maconie and agrees to share early evening show. Buys around.

2009: Publishes a best-selling book of memoirs: ‘Thank You For The Days’ and holds hands with Stuart as they frolic the length of Hadrian’s Wall.

Wins yet another Sony Gold Award as he is crowned ‘Best Music Broadcaster’ at a well posh ceremony in that there London.

2010: Forms r’ nb band The Big Figures and goes on tour with one of his childhood heroes Wilko Johnson of Dr.Feelgood.

Skips gaily along 100 miles of the Jurassic Coast with that other fella off the radio.

2011: Records first solo album at the age of 53 and publishes yet another book titled ‘Reeling in the Years’ detailing the soundtrack to his half-century on God’s good earth.

The biopic must surely now be an inevitability. Launches the award-winning* bespoke record show ‘Mark Radcliffe’s Music Club’. Oh, and moves to BBC6records. Remarkably, they don’t seem to have found him out yet.