The Full English: A Sunday Times bestseller

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Throughout, he touches on the England found in the films of Shane Meadows and in the writer Tabitha Lasley’s recent masterpiece, Sea State. He was acutely conscious, however, that he was just breezing through and that he reports rather than critiques what he encounters. 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.

The Full English: A Sunday Times bestseller : Maconie, Stuart

Maconie, Stuart (2015). The Pie at Night: In Search of the North at Play. London: Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0091933814. a b c Thair, David (22 May 2009). "Comedy Blog: HIGNFY Guest interview: Stuart Maconie". BBC . Retrieved 28 November 2014. 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. As a broadcaster, he is on BBC Radio 6 Music (with Mark Radcliffe) every weekend morning between 8 and 10am.Maconie joined BBC Radio 2 in 1998, with shows such as All Singing, All Dancing, All Night, a northern soul music show, and, for several years, Stuart Maconie's Critical List on Saturday evenings. He also presents documentaries and deputised for Johnnie Walker on Radio 2's Drivetime programme.

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The Full English: Sunbeam Rapiers being made in Coventry in 1955. Photograph: Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton/Getty 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.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 ]

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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 February 2015 he was the guest of Sarah Walker on BBC Radio 3's Essential Classics. [25] Since 2016 he has appeared on the North of England team on the BBC Radio 4's Round Britain Quiz. 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. Ninety years later, broadcaster and author Stuart Maconie has made the same journey through England using Priestley’s itinerary as a guide. The Full English is an insightful and entertaining book that interrogates the state of England today, a ‘sustained lovers’ quarrel’ with a country that is at once home and yet – at times – unrecognisable. 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.Maconie, Stuart (2017). Long Road from Jarrow: A journey through Britain then and now. London: Ebury Press. ISBN 978-1785036316. Amar Latif to be appointed as President of the Ramblers". Ramblers. 29 March 2023 . Retrieved 11 July 2023. Amar will succeed writer and DJ Stuart Maconie, who held the position of president of the Ramblers from 2017 to 2023. Stuart Maconie will continue his support of the charity in the role of life vice president. In July 2011, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from the University of Bolton. [37] Stuart Maconie's fantastic new book, 'Hope & Glory: The Days That Made Britain', is in the shops now