TV Appearences
Awayday
Corporate Video’s
Childrens TV
Other Television
Radio
Music for TV and Radio

TV Appearences

The Stuart Hall Show – thirteen shows that went out in 1994 Mike appearing with such luminaries as Bill Tidy ‘the funniest man I have ever met’, Ken Dodd, and Beryl Reid

Top of the Pops 1975.
Mike appeared twice in the summer of that year sat on a stuffed alsation dog dressed as a North Country Cowboy. As he later explained ‘It was a bit embarrassing but better than working down the sewers, and it paid for the luxuries in Life like bread and shoes.’

MH and Five Pee BBC 2 – Two series with the Fivepenny Piece from the Poco a Poco Club Stockport

The Mike Harding Show – 6 x 6 week series for BBC2 repeated on BBC1 recorded at various venues from Buxton to Belfast top viewing figures just below 8 Million average 6 million

Ticket to Ride – a series filmed in Ireland with Mike meeting musicians and raconteurs etc for a travel series. BBC1

The Harding Trail – series of 6 programmes in America . Mike cycled the Appalachian trail meeting people and playing music with musicians on the way. BBC1.

‘Second Chance’. BBC 1 1992 , The series went out each night for a week at around 7pm and aimed to encourage those who left school early or with no qualifications to go back to education and have another try Mike also wrote the very catchy theme song for the series.

The Landlord’s Tale – an alternative version of Christs Passion from the viewpoint of the Landlord of the Last Supper Inn. Scripted and performed by Mike this piece had a tremendous reaction and has been repeated in various countries throughout Europe

Awayday - a one off film of Mike travelling the Settle-Carlisle Railway line talking about the art, poetry and music of the railways. More interesting than it sounds

3 documentary films based on ecological issues made for ECO (Channel 4):

• 1 The Eyesore Way, about the devastation caused by quarrying and industry in the Peak National Park.
• 2 A Right to Roam delinating the problems of access to open spaces.
• 3 The Kleenex Trail – Everest the Soft Way when Mike trekked to Everest Base Camp outlining the problems of deforestation and pollution caused by careless trekking in Nepal.

Corporate Videos

‘A Park For People’ video made 1990 for the Peak National Park.

‘That’s Where It’s At’ video 1990 for Ordnance Survey for use in education.

Children’s Television

Jackanory BBC 1
The Magic Lion YTV

Other Television

Guest appearances on Parkinson, The Marti Caine Show, Daytime Live, North West on Two, Wogan, North West Face, Breakfast Time, Harty, Tom O’Connor Roadshow, Pebble Mill at One, Call my Bluff.

Radio

Mike Harding and Friends recorded for BBC Radio 2, October 1991 with George Melly, Ralph McTell and Maddy Prior

Yer Roots Are Showing BBC Radio 2
Two six week studio grams based series
A thirteen week location series recorded in New Orleans, New Mexico, Texas and Tennessee.

Six Leisure Walks with Mike Harding – a walking series of six programmes for BBC Radio 4
Rambles in Ireland a similar series, again for BBC Radio 4

Down Your Way – 2 programmes in the Dales and Manchester

Celtic Wanderers – a series with Ray Grevel for BBC Wales and Radio 4

Travels With a Mike BBC Radio 2 1996 Six week series with Mike playing recordings he has made in the field in places as far apart as Kathmandu Nepal and Kilkenny Irelend.

Mike Harding’s Yorkshire Dales BBC Radio 2 1997 series of field recordings and interviews with Mike’s own roving microphone and his own music

Mike is now presenting the weekly folk/roots/acoustic/un-plugged show for BBC Radio 2 every Wednesday from 8pm to 9pm

Numerous contributions to;
the BBC Natural History Programme,
Womens Hour,
I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue,
Ned Sherrin’s Loose Ends etc.

Countless appearances on local and BBC local radio stations throughout the country.

Music for Film and Television

Theme and incidental music for
Dangermouse and Duckula
The Reluctant Dragon Thames TV/Nickolodeon USA

The Fool of the World and The Flying Ship 1991
won 3 prestigious prizes, the Los Angeles Film Festival Award, the Chicago Television Award and the Emmy in New ork for the best children’s film animation in 1991.

Theme music for his own TV series. BBCl
Theme music for the Awayday series. BBC1
Theme and incidental music for Mike Harding’s Yorkshire Dales
Theme and incidental music for Barcud – The Red Kite RSPB film.
Music for Foootloose in the Himalaya Mike’s Audio Visual production on the India and Nepal Himalaya – won the Outdoor Writers’ Guild Award for Broadcast Media 1994