The Full English: A Sunday Times bestseller

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In January 2016 he became a patron of Warley Woods after a number of years being actively involved. [38] Politics [ edit ]

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He makes his way to the Bridge Tavern – Maconie has wisely decided that a town’s boozer is the best way to detect its pulse – where a local man having a smoke outside nods towards the door and greets the stranger. “Looking for t’scores, lad? Go inside. You don’t have to buy owt. They won’t mind.” 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 From April 2006 to 29 March 2008, Maconie presented the Saturday afternoon show previously presented by Chris Evans.Maconie, Stuart (2015). The Pie at Night: In Search of the North at Play. London: Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0091933814. 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 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 ] a b Maconie, Stuart (2007). Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North. London: Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-191022-8. English Journey: JB Priestley in Bournemouth, on the south coast of England, in 1941. Photograph: Bill Brandt/Picture Post/Hulton/Getty

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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... louderthanwar (2 September 2011). "How John Robb made up the word 'Britpop'!". Louder Than War . Retrieved 8 October 2023.And the 'thing' turned out to be his new book, The Full English, which sees him follow in the footsteps of JB Priestley's classic travelogue, English Journey, to 'explore our national identity and how it has evolved over the last century'. Maconie, Stuart (31 July 2017). "I'm a Marxist – we are misunderstood on both the left and right". New Statesman . Retrieved 22 September 2017.