The pair previously presented an evening show on BBC Radio 2 and the weekday afternoon show for BBC Radio 6 Music.

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Every October we bring the biggest names in local, regional, and international literary talent, media and the arts to Sheffield. He was educated at St John Rigby College, Orrell and Edge Hill College (now Edge Hill University, Ormskirk. 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.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. From a murderous 16th Century madrigal composer to Batley Variety Club - Yorkshires very own Caesars Palace. Why can’t we be less concerned with bossing the world and try and become a happy and content people? His music memoir Cider with Roadies boasted his typical wry wit and deft phrasemaking and became a classic book of the genre.

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The six towns are very tight communities and you can tell that people have a real pride in coming from their own town. Maconie spent two years in his footsteps, and the leisurely tone pays off: he succeeds in inhabiting the slim spaces where you can feel and sometimes see vestiges of Priestley’s England nine decades later. He's on the North of England team on Radio 4's Brain of Britain, hosts new Radio 4 quiz My Generation and has triumphed in Pointless Celebrities on two occasions.I love the fact that you could be on a posh liner crossing the ocean and people from Stoke-on-Trent would be turning over the plates to see where they were made. He was a music reporter for Mark Goodier's Evening Session on BBC Radio 1, alongside Andrew Collins. 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.

The Full English: An entertaining journey through England

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. StuartMaconie Stuart is a prolific, popular and extremely highly regarded TV and radio presenter, journalist, columnist and best-selling author.part of me wants to say, ‘Well, hang on, standing alone against fascism is quite a thing to be proud of. He was acutely conscious, however, that he was just breezing through and that he reports rather than critiques what he encounters. A country that elects someone like Boris Johnson is just not a grown-up country,” he says with passion.