26th March 2010


Oct 2008

May 2005 until Nov 2007

April 2002 until 2007


April 2002 until 2006

2001 until 2001


Dec 2000 until May 2002



June 2000 until Feb 2001



1988 until April 2000










1994 until 1996


1989 until 1993





1988 until 1989


1986 until 1986

Compared "All means All" - A Night of Comedy & Music.
In aid of ALFIE and Parents for Inclusion at The Rose Theatre, Kingston.

Presented All Terrain Wheelchair item for BBC “Inside Out”

Producer/reporter on BBC Documentary “Can walk – won’t walk”

Freelance reporter for BBC LDN, working both for radio and TV news departments

Freelancer writing a monthly column for the BBC Ouch website

Freelance presenter for Tomorrow’s World and it’s new sister show Don’t Read The Manual

Freelance DJ/Presenter/Producer for Total Rock, the UK’s first digital rock radio station presenting my own Sunday morning show, “Mik Scarlet’s Sunday Morning Madness”

Freelance music columnist for Scottish Best for Music magazine, reviewing latest releases and gigs, plus interviews with acts and a regular “London’s calling” on the goings on in the London music scene.

Freelance presenter/reporter with the BBC’s Disabilities Programme Unit, working on “One in Four” and then long running magazine show “From The Edge” and late night show “Over The Edge”, covering topics as varied as Water Ski-ing for wheelchair users, the Victorian attitude towards disability and how it affects the way society sees disability today, the mistreatment of the severely disabled by careers, regular updates on benefits for disabled people, sexuality (both heterosexual and homosexual) and the disabled, language – the media – and disability, Scuba Diving, and doctors switching mercy killing disabled patients without requests from the patient (i.e. murder)

Freelance co-presenter on CBBC’s kids poetry show “Wham, Bam, Strawberry Jam” with Rik Mayall

Freelance presenter on Channel 4’s Emmy award winning children’s show “Beat That”, a weekly challenge show that was the first program on British TV to feature mixed ability children as contestants. I also won an Emmy and was voted “European Children’s TV Presenter of the Year 1992”

Freelance presenter for Channel 4’s youth show’s Survivors Guide and Sex Talk. Writer and producer on episode of Sex Talk “Willing and Able”

Co-presenter of the Thames Help Roadshow, a campaigning program dealing with various green issues.

Plus presenter/reporter on items for Radio 4 and 5, Central TV, Meridian TV, Carlton TV, and other regional stations, presenter on various training video’s (including the new Scope guide to the correct use of language by the media when covering items concerning disabled people, Co-presenter for 48 hours straight on the 1992 ITV Telethon (all live), written music for TV programs, adverts and jingles, voiced over TV shows, TV trailers and adverts, modelled in magazines, newspapers, poster campaigns and on catwalk, spoke and chaired various conferences, campaigned on behalf of various charities and causes, fronted, written music for and managed various rock bands, toured with Gary Numan, Dj-ed at Club UK as well as other club nights and run my own successful club night for over two years.

Laurence “Lucky” Perkins



Various characters


Jim Morrison


Boy Racer


Lucky


Caliban

Promotional trailer for the Feature film « The Chairman » made by Big Cat Films after being offered the role of the lead character. Taken to Cannes as part of promotional search for backing – still in development.

Live stage performances of short plays by new women writers with the Graeae Theatre Company – 3 night run

Record shop owner with the Rock God name who featured in the main story thread of an episode of ITV’s The Bill

Fast driving yob who challenges Ben to a wheelchair race in an episode of 2.4 Children for the BBC

Vodka drinking, spliff smoking, guitar play rock and roller in pilot for Inmates, as part of the BBC Comic Asides series

The infamous never shown DPU version of Shakespeare’s classic, a six month shoot that ended with the film never being shown

Plus various featured extra roles in both feature film and TV series, such as Preaching to the Perverted, Talk, and Casualty plus appeared with my girlfriend in a Channel 4 ident. Ceased extras work in 2000.