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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. The Full English: Sunbeam Rapiers being made in Coventry in 1955. Photograph: Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton/GettyThe Full English: Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, as Mr Stevens and Miss Kenton, in the film version of The Remains of the Day 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. 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." 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 ]

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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. Stuart Maconie's fantastic new book, 'Hope & Glory: The Days That Made Britain', is in the shops nowStuart loves a quiz, and is a Mastermind Champion, scoring their highest celebrity score answering questions on Modern British Poetry from 1900. 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. In July 2011, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from the University of Bolton. [37] Maconie, Stuart. "Why rugby league is obviously better than rugby union". The Daily Telegraph. London . Retrieved 4 September 2015. 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

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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. 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. Off the Shelf Festival of Words is one of the North's largest literary festivals. Every October we bring the biggest names in local, regional, and international literary talent, media and the arts to Sheffield. 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.If there is a neat summary to what he discovered in following Priestley’s ghost, it is that England’s cities are thriving while its towns are ailing. “There are a lot of English people who know Marbella better than the Potteries,” he points out. He would urge people to find the England beyond the blazing cities and main arteries. It is the towns that seem to have fallen into the time slips that Priestley dramatised in his plays. Maconie is a supporter of Wigan Athletic [33] and Wigan Warriors. [34] In December 2009, Maconie was awarded an honorary Master's degree by Edge Hill University, Ormskirk. [35] The university has a hall of residence called Maconie in his honour. [36] His previous work, The Nanny State Made Me (Ebury Press 2020) examines the positive impact of the Welfare State through the prism of his sixties and seventies childhood as well interviews with the countless beneficiaries of its work. He looks at its gradual dismantling and the effect that its rise and fall and (hopeful) rise has had on the nation we are now. The latest edition has been revised to reflect events since March 2020...