Mark Goodier | |
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![]() Goodier in July 2011 | |
Born | |
Nationality | British |
Education | George Heriot's School |
Occupation(s) | Voice artist Disc jockey |
Years active | 1971–present |
Known for | BBC Radio 1's UK Top 40 (1990–1992, 1995–2002) The Evening Session (1990–1993) Top of the Pops (1988–1991, 1994-1996) Now That's What I Call Music! (UK TV advert) Pick of the Pops (2016, 2018, 2024-present) |
Spouse | Jackie Goodier (m. 1985) |
Children | 3 |
Mark Goodier (born 9 June 1961) is a British radio disc jockey best known for his time on BBC Radio 1 between 1987 and 2002. He had two spells presenting the station's Top 40 singles chart, from 1990 to 1992 and from 1995 until 2002. He also had a stint on Radio 1 Breakfast during 1993.
Goodier has also presented shows on BBC Radio 2, Classic FM, Greatest Hits Radio, Smooth Radio and Real Radio, and appeared on BBC television as a recurring presenter of Top of the Pops between 1988 and 1996.
On 17 January 2023, Goodier announced that he was to be replaced on weekday mornings by Ken Bruce, who joined the station from BBC Radio 2. Bruce announced his departure from Radio 2 on the same day. [1] Goodier moved to weekend mornings in April, replacing Pat Sharp who left the station. Goodier returned to the weekday mid-morning slot in August 2023 and March 2024 provided holiday cover for Bruce. On 15 April 2024, it was announced that Mark would be leaving Greatest Hits Radio and going back to BBC Radio 2 to take over Pick of the Pops from 6 July 2024.
Goodier was born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). His family moved to Llanfairfechan, Wales shortly after he was born, eventually settling in Edinburgh, Scotland, when he was 8 years old. [2] He was educated at George Heriot's School, in Edinburgh. He became a mobile DJ in Edinburgh and then joined a local Free Radio Station (Telstar) where his radio career began. Afterwards he went on to join the local stations Radio Forth and Radio Tay at the age of 19 taking over the Radio Tay Breakfast Beat from Gerry Quinn [2] After progressing through several jobs at stations in Scotland including Radio Clyde in Glasgow and at Metro Radio in the North East of England, he joined BBC Radio 1 in 1987, beginning a 15-year stint with the station, beginning with a two-hour Saturday night show.
Goodier co-presented Radio 1's Weekend Breakfast Show with Liz Kershaw and Sybil Ruscoe (Kershaw's stand-in), and he quickly progressed to a drivetime slot. He created The Evening Session and hosted it between 1990 and 1993. During this period, he also presented the UK Top 40 chart countdown on Sunday evenings from 30 Sep 1990 and was also an established host on Top of the Pops , along with several of his BBC Radio 1 colleagues. But the very first Top 40 presented he on 21st Feb 1988.
Bands and artists recorded sessions for Goodier at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios, some of which were commercially released. In 1992, Nirvana's "odds-and-sods" release, Incesticide , featured several songs recorded for Goodier's BBC show. The album reached the top 40 on both sides of the Atlantic and achieved Platinum status in America. A further session recording was "Something in the Way", released on the 2011 edition of Nevermind .[ citation needed ]
When Simon Mayo left Radio 1 Breakfast in 1993, Radio 1 controller Matthew Bannister approached Steve Wright to take over the slot. Wright said that he would not do so immediately, and Bannister asked Goodier to host for four months in late 1993. He then shifted to afternoons, then back to his old drivetime slot in 1995. In the same year on 23 April, he returned to the chart show for the first time since 1st March 1992 after Bruno Brookes left the station.[ citation needed ]
In 1997, Goodier took on a Saturday and Sunday morning slot after quitting daily radio to establish his production company, WiseBuddah. He spent his final two years at Radio 1 only presenting the Top 40 show, before leaving the station entirely in 2002 owing to falling audiences and BBC bosses considering him "too old for the job." [3] [4] [5] Goodier's final show was broadcast on 17 November that year, which also marked the 50th anniversary of the UK Singles Chart. In addition to this, from 2001 Goodier also stood in for presenters on BBC Radio 2 when taking their holiday.
After permanently leaving BBC Radio 1, Goodier presented the EMAP-produced Smash Hits Chart, which competed with Radio 1's official chart and Hit40UK . The Smash Hits Chart finished in March 2006, when EMAP also began to broadcast the Hit40UK chart show across their Big City Network of stations. He also presented the Classical Chart for Classic FM.[ citation needed ]
On 1 April 2006, his new Real Top 40 shows began on the Real Radio network in Scotland, Wales and Yorkshire. Every show reflected sales and airplay for that area.[ citation needed ]
Goodier is featured in a podcast promoting the Top of the Pops boxset alongside Miles Leonard, Malcolm McLaren and David Hepworth. [6]
In March 2007, Goodier joined the newly relaunched Smooth Radio in London, as presenter of the weekday mid-morning show from 10 am to 1 pm, his first daily show in a decade, and subsequently this show was networked to other Smooth stations and then on the national Smooth service. [7] He left the station in December 2012 to focus on running his Wisebuddah company. [8]
Goodier again became a frequent stand-in on BBC Radio 2 when regular presenters were on leave. [9] From 27 February to 2 July 2016 he presented Pick of the Pops on a temporary basis following the departure of Tony Blackburn, [10] before Paul Gambaccini took over as the permanent presenter. On 15 April 2024, it was announced that Goodier would return to Radio 2 to host POTP from 6 July, following the passing of Steve Wright, becoming his first ever permanent programme for Radio 2.
In addition, he is a voiceover artist for television adverts which promote new compact disc-formatted albums, in particular the Now That's What I Call Music! UK series, of which he has been "the voice" since Now 21 in early 1992. Goodier has also hosted the annual Blackpool Illuminations Switch on Concert for two years on Real Radio and Smooth Radio. In June 2012, Goodier joined Spectrum FM, the English language music station in the Costa del Sol, Spain, to present a weekly Saturday morning show.[ citation needed ]
Goodier is a Fellow of The Radio Academy. [11]
On 17 November 2016, Goodier suffered a stroke aged 55, which prevented him from voicing the television adverts for Now That's What I Call Music! 95 (UK), which were instead voiced by Matt Edmondson. [12] [13]
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Radio 1 denied he has been fired because of falling listener figures, saying his contract is coming to an end.
Station bosses want to replace him with someone younger, who will be more in tune with its target audience of 15 to 24-year-olds.
Mark Goodier is leaving Radio 1's weekly chart show after 15 years because he is considered too old for the job.