As a broadcaster, he is on BBC Radio 6 Music (with Mark Radcliffe) every weekend morning between 8 and 10am. Maconie’s arrival is one of the most memorable passages in the book. “On the tram, or Metrolink more formally, you come into Radcliffe over the dark, swirling Irwell and rows of terraced houses. It’s a Saturday dusk, always an evocative time, redolent of the theme from Sports Report and Doctor Who. The cobbled ginnels fan away full of scattered wheelie bins and pizza boxes and the little shops turn off their lights.” Film producer and PBJ client, Roy Boulter, in conversation with Stuart Maconie and Mark Radcliffe on Radio 6 music 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”. Maconie, Stuart (1999). 3862 Days: The Official History of Blur. London: Virgin Books. ISBN 978-0-7535-0287-7.

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a b Maconie, Stuart (2009). Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England. London: Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-192650-2. 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. English Journey: JB Priestley in Bournemouth, on the south coast of England, in 1941. Photograph: Bill Brandt/Picture Post/Hulton/GettyDiane Abbott made ‘terrible mistake’ by saying Irish people did not suffer racism, says Labour grandee ] Published in 1933, author J B Priestley’s book, English Journey, charted his journey across a changing England, a country that he loved and yet did not understand.

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And it explains why those towns were the ones where Brexit happened and the red wall crumbled,” Maconie says as he prepares to board his train – he doesn’t say whether it’s running late. In July 2011, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from the University of Bolton. [37] Stuart John Maconie (born 13 August 1961) [2] is an English radio DJ and television presenter, writer, journalist, and critic working in the field of pop music and popular culture. He is a presenter on BBC Radio 6 Music where, alongside Mark Radcliffe, he hosts its weekend breakfast show (Saturday–Sunday, 8 am–10 am) [3] which broadcasts from the BBC's MediaCityUK in Salford. The pair previously presented an evening show on BBC Radio 2 and the weekday afternoon show for BBC Radio 6 Music. Maconie, Stuart (2020). The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save it. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-1529102413. He was a music reporter for Mark Goodier's Evening Session on BBC Radio 1, alongside Andrew Collins. Also on Radio 1, from 1995 to 1997, Maconie joined forces with Collins presenting a music review called Collins and Maconie's Hit Parade, which originally went out on Monday nights from 9 pm to 10 pm and then on Sunday afternoons from 3 pm to 4 pm. In addition to this, in October 1996, Maconie took over a weekly album show on Radio 1 on Sunday nights, until late 1997.

Maconie was President of The Ramblers from 2017 to 2023 [26] [27] [28] and is a keen fellwalker. He completed, on 20 June 2009, all 214 Wainwrights in Cumbria [29] and is an honorary member of the Wainwright Society, having given their Memorial Lecture in 2006. [30] [31] In late 2009, Experience Northwest released a series of short stories he wrote about the hidden gems in England's Northwest. [32] Personal life [ edit ] Maconie, Stuart (2017). Long Road from Jarrow: A journey through Britain then and now. London: Ebury Press. ISBN 978-1785036316.