Editing Mike Read (section)

===After Radio 1===
Read left Radio 1 in 1991 and moved to Capital Gold in London, presenting his ''Mike Read Collection'', which went out on a Sunday night, before taking on the weekday 'drive-time' show in mid-1992, where he remained until he left the station in late 1995. Read was heard on [[BBC Radio 2]] in 1992 presenting special shows looking back at the career of [[Cliff Richard]] and playing his music. Read then joined [[Classic FM (UK)|Classic FM]], where he presented a weekend series, and had a stint as weekday breakfast presenter starting in March 1996. The following year, he presented the networked 'breakfast show' on [[Classic Gold Digital Network|Classic Gold]] stations around the UK.

From September 1999, Read presented the breakfast show on [[100.4 Jazz FM|Jazz FM]] in the north of England; then, in 2001, he joined [[Spirit FM (UK radio station)|Spirit FM]] in [[Chichester]], initially presenting a Sunday slot from 10{{nbsp}}am to 1{{nbsp}}pm before moving to a weekday afternoon slot from 2{{nbsp}}pm to 3{{nbsp}}pm, playing music from various featured years.

Between 2003 and 2004, Read presented a Saturday morning slot on the [[Magic (English former radio network)|Magic]] network around the UK. In May 2005, he became the weekday morning presenter on [[Big L 1395]], a station modelled on the 1960s pirate radio station; he has also done occasional stints on [[Talksport]]. In November 2008, he took time out from Big L to present the 3{{nbsp}}pm{{snd}}7{{nbsp}}pm 'drive-time' show on [[KCFM (FM)|KCFM]] (based in [[Kingston upon Hull|Hull]]) for a week (10–14 November), as cover for [[Shaun Tilley]]. Read became the third former Radio 1 disc jockey to broadcast on the station, along with [[Tony Blackburn]] and [[Paul Burnett]].

In November 2009, Read began hosting a mid-morning slot on [[TotalStar]] in the [[West of England]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?item.4081.17 | title = Mike Read joins Star 107.5 | access-date = 17 April 2010 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120224203126/http://www.radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?item.4081.17 | archive-date = 24 February 2012 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> Exactly a year later, Read had returned to Big L with a daily slot from 8{{nbsp}}am to 12{{nbsp}}pm, Monday-Friday. From July 2011, he hosted the Golden Hour on [[More Radio]] ([[Swindon]] and [[Wiltshire]]), formerly Total Star Wiltshire. Read was heard on [[Magic 1548]] in the north of England, where he presented their weekend breakfast series, on Saturdays and Sundays from 7{{nbsp}}am{{snd}}10{{nbsp}}am, starting in April 2012. He also presented the afternoon slot on Monday to Friday on [[BBC Radio Berkshire]] between 1:00/3:00{{nbsp}}pm and 4{{nbsp}}pm until March 2015, and continued to host programmes for the station, including a Saturday afternoon slot during the summer of 2015.

In April 2018, Read was the first voice heard on the new internet radio station United DJs, where he hosted the station's breakfast slot on weekdays from 7-9am. He also hosted an additional weekly series for the station, entitled ''I Write the Songs''.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}} From November 2019, he hosted the weekday breakfast slot, from 7-10am, on London and south-east DAB station Vintage Music Radio for several months,
<ref>{{cite news | last = Read | first = Mike | title = Vintage Music Radio launches | url = https://vintagemusictv.com/vintage-music-radio-launches-good-times-great-music/ | work = Vintage Music | date = 4 November 2019}}</ref> but still presented occasional shows on United DJs and returned to the breakfast show there the following spring, staying until November 2020. Read left to join the new line-up of [[Nation Radio UK]] from 4 January 2021, and was replaced by [[Neil Fox (broadcaster)|Neil Fox]] in April.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}}