Mark Goodier (born 28 June 1961) is a British radio disc jockey.

Early career

Mark Goodier was born in Zimbabwe. His family moved to the UK when he was a child, eventually settling in Scotland. He was educated at George Heriot's School, in Edinburgh. He became a mobile DJ in Edinburgh and then joined local station Radio Forth at the age of 19. 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 very successful 15 year stint with the station, starting with a 2 hour Saturday night show.

Radio 1

Goodier co-presented the "Liz & Mark" weekend breakfast show, and he quickly progressed to a drivetime slot. He created The Evening Session and hosted between 1990 and 1993. During this period, he also presented the UK Top 40 chart countdown on Sunday evenings and was also an established host on Top Of The Pops along with his Radio 1 colleagues.

Many great bands and artists recorded sessions for Mark at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios, some of which became released, including in 1992, some of the recordings for Nirvana ended up on their "odds-and-sods" release, Incesticide which reached the top 40 on both sides of the Atlantic and achieved Platinum status in America.

When Simon Mayo left the breakfast show in 1993, the Radio 1 boss, Matthew Bannister approached Steve Wright to take over the slot. Wright said that he would not do so immediately after Mayo, and Bannister asked Goodier to stand in as host for four months in late 1993 and early 1994. He then shifted to afternoons, then back to his old drivetime slot in 1995. In the same year, he returned to the chart show after Bruno Brookes left the station.

In 1997, Goodier took on a Saturday and Sunday morning slot after quitting daily radio to establish his production company, Wise Buddah (a play on Budweiser). He spent his final two years at Radio 1 only presenting the Top 40 show, before leaving the station entirely in 2002 due to falling audiences and BBC bosses considering him "too old for the job." Goodier's final show was broadcast on November 17 that year which also celebrated the 50th anniversary of the UK singles chart.

After Radio 1

After leaving Radio 1, Goodier went on to present 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. He was a frequent stand-in on BBC Radio 2 when regular presenters were on leave.

On April 1, 2006, his new Real Top 40 shows began on the Real Radio network in Scotland, Wales and Yorkshire. Each show reflected sales and airplay for that area.

Mark Goodier is featured in a podcast promoting the "Top of the Pops" boxset alongside Miles Leonard, Malcolm McClaren and David Hepworth.

He is a Fellow of The Radio Academy .

Smooth Radio

In March 2007, Goodier joined the newly relaunched Smooth Radio in London, where he now presents the weekday mid-morning show from 10am-1pm, his first daily show in a decade. Since September 2007, his show has been networked on other Smooth Radio stations in the UK, apart from 100.4 Smooth Radio in the North West.

In addition, he is still much in demand as a voiceover artist for adverts which promote new CDs, in particular the Now That's What I Call Music! series, of which he has been "the voice" since 1992.

References

1. "… Radio 1 denied he has been fired because of falling listener figures, saying his contract is coming to an end."
2. "… 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."
3. "Mark Goodier is leaving Radio 1's weekly chart show after 15 years because he is considered too old for the job."
4. The Radio Academy "Fellows"

External links

• Smooth Radio profile
• Profile at MediaUK
• A brief biography
• Mark's profile at Wise Buddah