Mark Radcliffe - Television

Television

Radcliffe presented a live music TV programme, The White Room, for Channel 4 in 1995, and has regularly appeared in the BBC's coverage of the Glastonbury Festival and the Cambridge Folk Festival. Along with Marc Riley, he presented a music-based quiz programme, Pop Upstairs Downstairs, for the BBC/Flextech digital TV channel UK Play in 1999 and 2000. He also presented the BBC 1 football retrospective show Match Of The Nineties, which aired in summer 1999. In 2006, he won the ITV1 singing competition Stars in Their Eyes with an appearance portraying The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan singing "The Irish Rover". In 2009 he took over from Steve Wright as the presenter of TOTP2.

The Shirehorses were due to appear in an episode of the sitcom Phoenix Nights 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.

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