Mik Scarlet is one of the UK's most recognisable disabled people working in the media today. Mik has been professional musician since his late teens, but is best known as an award winning TV and radio broadcaster, journalist and actor. He is also a successful writer and access advisor.

Mik's TV presenting career began back in 1986 as part of the presenting team on a TV show called "The Thames Help Roadshow", after being spotted singing with his band in a nightclub by a Thames producer. Mik quickly moved on to presenting jobs on Channel 4's "Survivors Guide" and "Sex Talk" series. He then began fronting Channel 4's ground breaking children's TV series "Beat That" which won many awards, including an Emmy, and led to Mik being voted "Children's TV Presenter of the Year '92". Mik went on to join the live continuity presentation team for Nickelodeon when they launched their UK based operation. From there he started working on CBBC as the presenter on their Poetry show, "Wham, Bam, Strawberry Jam", alongside Rik Mayall. As well as his children's TV career, Mik has managed to be seen as a serious broadcaster too. He had a very successful fourteen year collaboration with BBC's Disability Programmes Unit, presenting, writing and occasionally producing for their "From The Edge" and "Over The Edge" series, plus writing the theme tunes for both. He has also worked with most of the major terrestrial broadcast companies and many of the regional companies throughout the UK, presenting on magazine and light entertainment shows and reporting for news output. To list all of Mik's presenting credits would take too long, so please visit the CV page for more details.

Mik has also worked extensively on Radio, both as a reporter and as a DJ. He has reported for BBC Radio 4, working on "You and Yours" and "Woman's Hour" as well as the now defunct "Does He Take Sugar?". He has also worked for local radio, and has provided voice-overs for many radio and TV adverts, and has been the voice of behind many TV promos and idents. Mik co-hosted the "James Whale Show" for Talk Radio to great acclaim. He worked for BBC LDN, both as a radio reporter and for their television news. His massively popular show "Mik Scarlet's Sunday Morning Madness" ran on the digital rock music station Total Rock for three years. He has also been a jobbing club DJ for over fifteen years, all over London and the UK.

Another string to Mik's bow is acting. He has played several cameo roles in such shows as "Brookside", "The Bill" and "2.4 Children" and played Caliban in a BBC version of Shakespeare's "The Tempest". He even appeared as Prince Charming in the Panto "Cinderella". Most recently Mik has performed in the Mike Dibb play "Present Tense" and is about to appear in the Graeae production of "Rhinestone Rollers 2011 - Wheels On Broadway", where he will dance for the first time on stage.

Mik is also a writer and has been a feature columnist for The Independent, The News of the World, Best For Music, Skin Two, Ritual and Scarlet magazine. He was a regular columnist for the BBC Ouch website and is currently working on his autobiography and a murder mystery novel set in the 1980's. Mik is also the new style reporter for Disability Now magazine and is a regular contributor to the online magazine SinZine.

Mik's first love is music, and is currently working on tracks for his new synth-pop band Scarlet Messiah. He has worked in the music industry for over 25 years, both as a singer/songwriter and a producer. For more details regarding Mik's music visit www.scarletmessiah.co.uk (coming soon) and to download Mik's back catalogue visit Tindeck.

Mik has recently become a professional access advisor and is working with various sized companies to ensure they are fully accessible and inclusive. He has began this area of his career by advising on the development of the Ocean venue in Hackney, and later worked with the nightclubs Ministry of Sound and Koko. He is currently working towards making Camden's Stables Market fully accessible, both with Camden Council and the market's owners. Mik is also advising the developers of the new Camden Lock Village site on access issues and has been involved with the new Kings Cross regeneration.

Mik is also a patron for the Neuroblastoma Society (the kind of cancer he had as a baby) and the National Association of Bikers with Disabilities and is working with CLIC Sargent and Enhance The UK