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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. 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.

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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 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. Stuart told StokeOnTrentLive that he found the city 'one of the biggest mysteries of all the chapters in the book'. In January 2016 he became a patron of Warley Woods after a number of years being actively involved. [38] Politics [ edit ]

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. 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 ] In the book he doesn't shy away from some of the less appealing parts of the city but writes with a genuine warmth about the towns and the people he find there. 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."

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Brexit Britain: Boris Johnson in Middlesbrough during his 2019 general-election campaign. Photograph: Frank Augstein/Pool/Getty Writer, journalist and DJ Stuart Maconie journeys through England as he walks in the footsteps of J.B. Priestley’s classic travelogue, English Journey, to explore our national evolving identity. Stuart takes inspiration from the people he meets and examines our past and present with affection and insight. He lets us see our homes, habits, hopes and eccentricities with fresh eyes. The Full English challenges us to embrace the shifting and diverse nature of England and ask ourselves what kind of country we want to be. Stuart Maconie England’s menacing political undercurrent is present throughout but subtly evoked. Maconie takes a detour to Radcliffe, near Bury, in northwest England, because it was a Labour town that voted Conservative in 2019. He wants to visit there, however, because Christian Wakeford, the local MP, has defected to Labour.

StuartMaconie Stuart is a prolific, popular and extremely highly regarded TV and radio presenter, journalist, columnist and best-selling author. Maconie, Stuart (2000). James – Folklore: The Official History. London: Virgin Books. ISBN 978-0-7535-0494-9. The Full English: Christian Wakeford's shuttered constituency office in Radcliffe the day the MP announced his defection to the British Labour Party from the Conservatives. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty 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.” 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.