In January 2016 he became a patron of Warley Woods after a number of years being actively involved. [38] Politics [ edit ] Stuart Maconie and Jo Whiley are hosting BBC Radio 2 and BBC Four's '12 Hours to Please Me', paying homage to The Beatles' Please, Please Me album recorded at the famous Abbey Road Studios Maconie, Stuart (31 July 2017). "I'm a Marxist – we are misunderstood on both the left and right". New Statesman . Retrieved 22 September 2017. The Full English: Sunbeam Rapiers being made in Coventry in 1955. Photograph: Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton/Getty In his career as a writer and journalist he has written for Q, Word Magazine, ELLE, The Times, The Guardian, the Evening Standard, Daily Express, Select, Mojo, Country Walking, Deluxe and was an assistant editor for the NME. In September 2008, he began a new monthly column for Cumbria Life magazine. Maconie previously worked as an English and sociology teacher at Skelmersdale College, Lancashire for one year in 1987–88. [1] [8] He has written screenplays for television and films.

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While at St John Rigby College, Maconie formed a band named (after several iterations) Les Flirts, [1] featuring Maconie on guitar/vocals, Nigel Power on bass and Jem Bretherton on drums. [1] [7] Career [ edit ] a b c d e f g h i j k Maconie, Stuart (2005). Cider with Roadies. London: Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-189745-1. OCLC 890396204.StuartMaconie Stuart is a prolific, popular and extremely highly regarded TV and radio presenter, journalist, columnist and best-selling author. Maconie has also presented musical specialities for BBC Radio 4 and the new-style "populist" BBC Radio 3 and has appeared on television and in films. In 2007 he presented Stuart Maconie's TV Towns for ITV3, six one-hour shows about TV and film locations in Newcastle, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Liverpool and London. Maconie used to present his own solo show on Saturday afternoons from April 2006 until 29 March 2008, and is a frequent stand-in for holidaying presenters on Radio 2. He also hosts BBC Radio 6 Music programmes The Freak Zone, [4] on Sundays from 8 pm to 10 pm and Freak Zone Playlist [5] (formerly known as The Freakier Zone) on Wednesday night/Thursday mornings from midnight to 1 am. He also joined BBC Radio 6 Music from its inception in 2002 where he presents The Freak Zone radio show. [5] [4] It is described as " the weird, the wonderful and all that's in between", and is very diverse in musical content. This show is broadcast every Sunday from 8 pm to 10 pm, and has been supplemented in 2010 with The Freakier Zone, which airs from midnight to 1 am every Saturday night/Sunday morning. In spring 2011, his Radio 2 show with Mark Radcliffe was moved to 6 Music, weekdays 1–4 pm. The afternoon show ended on 21 December 2018 and moved to the weekend breakfast show in January 2019. Brexit Britain: Boris Johnson in Middlesbrough during his 2019 general-election campaign. Photograph: Frank Augstein/Pool/Getty

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It's very characterful and I loved the bottle ovens. I would have loved to see them in the heyday of the potteries when there were so many more across the city." a b "Stuart Maconie". Wigan Leisure & Culture Trust. 2012. Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. Harris, John (13 June 2013). "The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records by Stuart Maconie – review". The Guardian . Retrieved 12 July 2013. English Journey: JB Priestley in Bournemouth, on the south coast of England, in 1941. Photograph: Bill Brandt/Picture Post/Hulton/Getty Maconie was born in 1961. Like many of his generation, he delighted in being smashed by wave after wave of English pop-music invention that has rolled through every decade since. Music became as good a way as any of interpreting and imagining England. A popular broadcaster – many people would recognise what one reviewer terms his “Lancastrian burr”, both from his BBC Radio 6 shows and his regular TV appearances – he is also credited with coining the term Britpop. After his memoir of a life in music, Cider with Roadies, was published, the comedian Peter Kay described him as “the best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton”.In Coventry, for instance, he reflects on the new energy and optimism of a city whose trajectory was radically redefined by the Blitz while recalling the mid-1970s “reconciliation” concert for which Tangerine Dream, the splendid German electronic trio, played a concert. (It is preserved on YouTube.) Headlines welcomed the startled performers with the declaration: “35 years ago, they came with bombs! Now, they come with synthesisers.” Alan Davies As Yet Untitled recommences on Dave on Tuesday 2nd February with the wonderful Bob Mortimer around the table Presenting our new president". Walk. Ramblers. Summer 2023. Amar succeeeds DJ and write Stuart Maconie, Ramblers president from 2017 to 2023, who continues to support us as a lifelong vice-president. The six towns are very tight communities and you can tell that people have a real pride in coming from their own town. I'm sure that if anyone had mistakenly said that Lemmy from Motörhead was from Hanley rather than Burslem he would have put them right. a b Maconie, Stuart (2007). Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North. London: Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-191022-8.

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Maconie was born in Whiston. [6] He was raised in Prescot, Merseyside. He was educated at St John Rigby College, Orrell and Edge Hill College (now Edge Hill University, Ormskirk.) [1] Maconie (right) with bassist Nigel Power Diane Abbott made ‘terrible mistake’ by saying Irish people did not suffer racism, says Labour grandee ] Where is England, anyhow? A vast cathedral of writers and musicians have tried to locate the elusive heart of a country caught in a perpetual tug of war between its grandiloquent past and uncertain future. Among the most recent is Stuart Maconie, the BBC broadcaster and writer. When he answers his phone, Maconie is, like all true Englishmen, waiting on the platform of a train station. It’s morning time and he’s in bright form, having spent a lively evening in Newcastle at a public gathering for The Full English, his engaging new travelogue, in which he retraces the reflective journey that JB Priestley took in 1933 for his book English Journey. Living on Campus: Accommodation: Graduates Court". Edge Hill University. 2014 . Retrieved 28 November 2014. I didn't realise until I arrived that 'Stoke-on-Trent' is an abstraction. It was one of the biggest mysteries of all the chapters in the book and I was fascinated by it.Stuart's Short Stories for Short Breaks - Home". 14 September 2008. Archived from the original on 14 September 2008 . Retrieved 25 July 2022. Maconie, Stuart (2023). The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0008498269. From April 2006 to 29 March 2008, Maconie presented the Saturday afternoon show previously presented by Chris Evans.