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Mike Harding (born 1944) is a British
singer/comedian.

Harding was born in Crumpsall, a suburb of the
England|English city of Manchester. He is known as
"The Rochdale Cowboy" after one of his hit
records. He was a broadcaster, stand up comic,
photographer, traveller, film maker, playwright,
poet, travel writer and musician.

He was educated at 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 the University of Manchester.  
Following this he became a folk singer and
stand-up comic, in which guise he made several
series for the BBC and 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 the BBC'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
from 8 pm to 9 pm British time.