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Mike Alexander began his radio career in London where he had basic training at United Biscuits Network (UBN) and watched a young Dale Winton at work. He was then hired by ex Swansea Sound presenter Doreen Jenkins as an AA Roadwatch travel journalist researching, writing and broadcasting traffic information to the capital and the South East of the UK. She called him "a clean slate to work on" and wiped out his Yorkshire accent.

He was principally heard on BBC Radio London and LBC between 1979 and 1981, although he was also on 210 Thames Valley. BFBS KOLN abroad and his scripts were read by most of the BBC and ILR stations UK presenters across the region at the time. On Capital, Kenny Everett read them often giving them his own personal spin.

Mike moved back to his home county of Yorkshire for the launch of Radio Aire in September 1981 and was a presenter of both specialist and mainstream programmes there until May 1984. He was initially the weekly evening Rock Show presenter and continued in this role throughout his tenure at the station.

Building a following where he encouraged listeners to take on characters of their own creation and before the advent of electronic media, he would read edited highlights of their letters creating a club feel to programme. He also became well known for his friendly if rather enquiring interview technique.

The Mike Alexander Rock Show became a successful place for the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal to be heard in the North Of England in the early eighties. He championed a number of emerging bands and particularly Mendes Prey. In 1982/3 Mike undertook mainstream programming and opened Radio Aire at 5am each morning which appeared to be unscripted and rather ambient. He was responsible for the jingle mix which opened the station before and after the news and then did the hour before taking over traffic reporting during Eric Smith's Breakfast Show. Mike was the "swing jock" on Radio Aire at the time and stood in for several presenters including Martin Kelner and Andy Kershaw.

His hundreds of interviews broadcast at this time included Ken Dodd, Lemmy, Ozzy Osbourne, Norman Lamont, Kiss, Michael Portillo, Status Quo, Dickie Henderson, Sweet, Queen, Angus Deaton and Katie Boyle - who reprimanded him in a letter afterwards when finding he kept goldfish in a bowl in Radio Aires reception and sent a booklet to him about how to do it properly. He now keeps fish rather better.

Principally a journalist, Mike resumed his role as a traffic/travel reporter in the North East in the late eighties where he was heard on BBC and ILR stations across the region from Sheffield to Newcastle. The banter often heard between jock and travel reporter on stations at this time was part of his stock-in-trade.

Whilst working as a DJ in Leeds, Mike met and became engaged to Jane whom he married in Norfolk. In 1990 they moved to Scotland where he qualified at Napier University in Edinburgh as a radio journalist. He then moved to Harrogate and worked at Stray FM as a journalist, presenter of the breakfast show and as a commercial producer for 2 years.

In the mid nineties, as programme controller for RSL station Morley FM Mike was responsible for hiring Danny Milo to do their breakfast show, giving him his first live radio show. Danny is now the Pulse One breakfast DJ in Bradford.

In 2005 he reverted to his birth name of Martin and joined West Yorkshire Police. In 2018 he went part time in his continuing role as a Public Enquiries Officer with the force and continues to use his communications skills in a very different way.