Radio and Television
A household name in Britain for over 25 years and long-time face of Music TV and Children's TV with the BBC, Mike has been voted National Broadcaster of the Year ten times and has made history by being the only person to have presented the breakfast show on three national radio stations.

Mike remains one of the most recognisable faces in the UK and one of the most familiar voices on radio. He is currently one of the most popular paper reviewers on Sky News.

Musicals
Mike has written eight successful stage musicals as well as performing in one for a long and highly-acclaimed run on the West End stage.

Many distinguished actors, actresses and performers have been involved in his musicals including Jeremy Irons, John Wells, Cliff Richard, Nyree Dawn Porter, Anton Rogers, Brian Glover, Colin Baker. His producers include Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bill Kenwright, That'll Be The Day and Apollo Leisure.

Art
Between the autumn of 2007 and the spring of 2009 he has had four exhibitions of his ground-breaking 'Choc Art,' a totally new concept using the medium of chocolate in various forms.

Songwriting
Mike has written songs that have been recorded by dozens of different artists, including Cliff Richard, David Essex, Leo Sayer, Gene Pitney, Paul Young, Justin Hayward, Alvin Stardust, Steve Harley, Donovan, Colin Blunstone, Kym Mazelle, Jon Anderson, Marc Almond and Don McLean.

Books
As co-author with Tim Rice and Paul Gambaccini of the Guinness Book of Hit Singles and subsequent titles, he had a number one best-selling book whose sales went on to total millions and become Guinness's second best-selling book after The Guinness Book of Records. He has written 35 books in all, including biographies, music, and poetry. His currently available tomes include Forever England, a biography of Rupert Brooke, Hodder's best-selling 100 Favourite Poems and 100 Favourite Humorous Poems, Major to Minor [The history of the songwriter in Britain and America over the last 200 years], Inspirations, the uniquely conceptual poetry collection New Poems for Old Paintings, Read's Musical Reciter and The South Coast Beat Scene of the 1960's.

Films
During the 90's, Mike was commissioned to write the music for the Children's Film Unit Film, How's Business and with Simon May wrote the title song for Midsummer Films release Caught In The Act, which received the Jury Award of Excellence at the Laguna Festival in the USA in 1996. He has also written several film scripts, including Forever England, about the life and times of Rupert Brooke, a film on pirate radio, Radio Cool, which is and packed with great 60's music, a comedy Fly Me To The Moon, Wenceslas, and Great Expectations. The latter is now funded and looks like being one of the great British musicals in the tradition of Oliver.

In 2007 he appeared as himself in Midsummer Murders and as Mickey Taylor in the psychological thriller Inside Out, also co-writing several songs for the soundtrack.

Miscellaneous
For the last six years Mike has been the Chairman of the Rupert Brooke Literary Society which he co-founded in 1999 and is now a vice president of the Society. He has created the country's first Brooke museum at Grantchester and edited two Brooke magazines a year from 1999-2007.

He is extremely busy as vice-president of The Heritage Foundation and has helped raise almost one and a half million pounds towards a permanent memorial in London to Bomber Command.

He has worked for many other different charities over the years including The Variety Club of Great Britain, Nordoff Robins and The Red Cross, as well as raising money from his stage shows for Children with Leukaemia and The Royal Marsden.

A long-time patron of The Cliff Richard Tennis Foundation Mike also raised £70,000 for them in one hit with his money from I'm A Celebrity.

Mike has spoken and performed at several Conservative party conferences and for some months was one of the front-runners for London Mayor.

An ambassador abroad, he has recently spoken on such topics as Politics, The Olympics, Music and Literature in such places as Hawaii, San Francisco, Acapulco, Norway, many of the Caribbean Islands and various Mediterranean countries.