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Mark and Lard, the stage name of Mark Radcliffe
Mark Radcliffe

Mark Radcliffe is an England Presenter who has worked in various roles for the BBC since the 1980s and remains one of United Kingdom's most recognised disc jockeys....
 (Mark) and Marc Riley
Marc Riley

Marc Riley is a United Kingdom musician, alternative rock critic and radio Disc jockey on BBC 6 Music. He was formerly known as Lard. Marc had a record label called In-Tape and then worked as a plugger....
 (Lard), are former BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a United Kingdom international radio station operated by the BBC, specialising in current popular music throughout the day, with a slight bias to Rock music & Independent music music....
 disc jockey
Disc jockey

A disc jockey is a person who selects and plays sound recording for an audience. Originally, disk referred to phonograph records, while disc refers to the Compact Disc, and has become the more common spelling....
s. Mark & Lard joined Radio 1 in October 1993 and left in March 2004. The pair moved to Radio 1 from BBC Radio 5
BBC Radio 5 (former)

BBC Radio 5 was, for three years and eight months, a British Broadcasting Corporation radio network that carried sports, children's and educational programmes....
's evening Hit the North programme, where Radcliffe was presenter and Riley climbed from researcher to producer.

Mark & Lard began their Radio 1 career presenting the late-night "graveyard shift" (10pm to midnight) in October 1993, taking over from Nicky Campbell
Nicky Campbell

Nicholas Andrew Argyll Campbell is a Scotland radio and television presenter and journalist. He is known for his strong views and assertive style of presenting on programmes such as the consumer affairs programme Watchdog ....
 who had previously occupied the slot.






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Mark and Lard, the stage name of Mark Radcliffe
Mark Radcliffe

Mark Radcliffe is an England Presenter who has worked in various roles for the BBC since the 1980s and remains one of United Kingdom's most recognised disc jockeys....
 (Mark) and Marc Riley
Marc Riley

Marc Riley is a United Kingdom musician, alternative rock critic and radio Disc jockey on BBC 6 Music. He was formerly known as Lard. Marc had a record label called In-Tape and then worked as a plugger....
 (Lard), are former BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a United Kingdom international radio station operated by the BBC, specialising in current popular music throughout the day, with a slight bias to Rock music & Independent music music....
 disc jockey
Disc jockey

A disc jockey is a person who selects and plays sound recording for an audience. Originally, disk referred to phonograph records, while disc refers to the Compact Disc, and has become the more common spelling....
s. Mark & Lard joined Radio 1 in October 1993 and left in March 2004. The pair moved to Radio 1 from BBC Radio 5
BBC Radio 5 (former)

BBC Radio 5 was, for three years and eight months, a British Broadcasting Corporation radio network that carried sports, children's and educational programmes....
's evening Hit the North programme, where Radcliffe was presenter and Riley climbed from researcher to producer.

Mark & Lard began their Radio 1 career presenting the late-night "graveyard shift" (10pm to midnight) in October 1993, taking over from Nicky Campbell
Nicky Campbell

Nicholas Andrew Argyll Campbell is a Scotland radio and television presenter and journalist. He is known for his strong views and assertive style of presenting on programmes such as the consumer affairs programme Watchdog ....
 who had previously occupied the slot. They then moved to the coveted Breakfast Show in February 1997, replacing Chris Evans. The pair moved to an early afternoon slot after eight months, where they remained until 2004. During this time they broadcast out of BBC Radio Manchester
BBC Radio Manchester

BBC Radio Manchester is a BBC Local Radio station broadcasting to the city of Manchester and surrounding areas. It relaunched on 3 April 2006 after broadcasting for a while as BBC GMR....
 studios, unlike the majority of the station's London-based content.

Phone in spoof quizzes were made popular on the show, such as "It's a Sausage Roll" and "Fish or Fowl". Lard also sent catchphrases such as "Biggedy Biggedy Bong", "Stop.... carry on!" and "Wickedy Wickedy Warp" over the airwaves to lucky listeners. However, a worldwide shortage of Warps hit them badly towards the end of their run, and is often cited as a major factor in their exit from Radio 1.

Shirehorses


Mark & Lard are also the creators of the spoof rock
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
 band "The Shirehorses
Shirehorses

The Shirehorses are a spoof band comprising two BBC Radio DJs from Manchester, Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley, known collectively as Mark and Lard....
", who released two CD albums:
  • The worst album...in the world...ever...EVER!
    The worst album...in the world...ever...EVER!

    The worst...album in the world...ever...EVER! is the first album from Shirehorses, a spoof England band. The title is a dig at the The Best...Album in the World...Ever!....
  • Our Kid, Eh?
    Our Kid Eh

    Our Kid Eh is the second album from the spoof band Shirehorses,comprising two BBC Radio 1 DJs, Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley .This album's title is a play on the name of Radiohead's album, Kid A and it reached #18 on the UK Albums Chart....
     The title is a combination of the contemporary Radiohead
    Radiohead

    Radiohead are an English alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire. The band is composed of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway ....
     album Kid A
    Kid A

    Kid A is the fourth album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released on in the United Kingdom and on in the United States and Canada....
    , and the northern phrase 'our Kid'.


Leaving Radio 1


In February 2004 the pair announced their resignation from Radio 1, with Radcliffe moving to BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2

BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio radio station and the List of most-listened-to radio programs in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult contemporary music or Album-orientated rock, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres....
 and Riley moving to BBC 6 Music
BBC 6 Music

BBC 6 Music is one of the BBC's Digital radio in the United Kingdom radio stations, launched on 11 March 2002 and originally codenamed Network Y....
. Their last show was broadcast on March 26, 2004 and featured a guest appearance by Travis, messages of commiseration from Neil Hannon, Radiohead, Blur (Damon Albarn composed a special song but "broke down in tears" before finishing it) and Kelly Jones of The Stereophonics, whom they'd frequently insulted during the show's run. They also received a bouquet of flowers from Paul McCartney. At the end of their last show, Riley sat in the silent studio sighing. Radcliffe convinces him to buck up and come to the pub to buy him a drink. But they had time for a swift half a catchphrase: "Stop!" Then the door closed and the show was over. It was followed by a silence of some twenty seconds causing the station to switch to the emergency tape, so making a nuisance of themselves one last time.

They subsequently worked together on the Mark & Lard's Football Nightmares DVD. They had previously presented Match of the Nineties, which showed highlights of English football seasons from 1989 to 1999, during the summer of 1999.