Mike Harding Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Mike Harding was born in 1944 in Crumpsall, Manchester, England. He is known as The Rochdale Cowboy after one of his hit records.Broadcaster, stand up comic, photographer, traveller, film maker, playwright, poet, travel writer, musician and hopeless gardener
Born 1944 Manchester England. Educated St Anne's Crumpsall and St Bede's Manchester. After a varied career as a road digger, dustbin man, steel erector, bus conductor, boiler scaler and chemical factory worker, he took a degree in English and Education at Manchester University. Following this he became a folk singer and stand - up comic in which guise he made several series for BBC Television and has appeared on numerous TV and Radio programmes including two series of travel films in Ireland and the Appalachian Mountains of America. He recently made a series of fourteen short films on minority religions in England for BBC TV's Heaven and Earth show and for the last five years has presented the Radio 2 flagship folk and roots programme The Mike Harding Show every Wednesday 8 p.m to 9 P.M GMT.