1. Stuart John Maconie was born on 13 August 1961 and is an English radio DJ and television presenter, writer, journalist, and critic working in the field of pop music and popular culture.
18 Facts About Stuart Maconie
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Stuart Maconie is a presenter on BBC Radio 6 Music where, alongside Mark Radcliffe, he hosts its weekend breakfast show which broadcasts from the BBC's MediaCityUK in Salford.
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Stuart Maconie was educated at St John Rigby College, Orrell and Edge Hill College, in Ormskirk.
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Stuart Maconie is the author of Cider With Roadies, an autobiography of his experiences as a music journalist that references Cider with Rosie in the wordplay of the title.
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Stuart Maconie's March 2012 book, Never Mind the Quantocks, is a collection of more than 50 essays from his monthly column in Country Walking magazine.
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Stuart Maconie said he started two urban legends: that Bob Holness, UK host of the game show Blockbusters, played the sax solo on Gerry Rafferty's hit single "Baker Street" and that David Bowie invented the board game Connect Four.
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Stuart Maconie said he was the first to use the term Britpop for the British pop music movement of the mid-1990s.
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Stuart Maconie was a music reporter for Mark Goodier's Evening Session on BBC Radio 1, alongside Andrew Collins.
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Also on Radio 1, from 1995 to 1997, Stuart Maconie joined forces with Collins presenting a music review called Collins and Stuart Maconie's Hit Parade, which originally went out on Monday nights from 9pm to 10pm and then on Sunday afternoons from 3pm to 4pm.
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From April 2006 to 29 March 2008, Stuart Maconie presented the Saturday afternoon show previously presented by Chris Evans.
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In 2012, Stuart Maconie began presenting The People's Songs, a "story of modern Britain in 50 records".
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Stuart Maconie joined BBC Radio 6 Music from its inception in 2002 where he presents The Freak Zone radio show.
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Stuart Maconie has presented musical specialities for BBC Radio 4 and the new-style "populist" BBC Radio 3 and has appeared on television and in films.
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Stuart Maconie was President of The Ramblers from 2017 to 2023 and is a keen fellwalker.
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Stuart Maconie completed, on 20 June 2009, all 214 Wainwrights in Cumbria and is an honorary member of the Wainwright Society, having given their Memorial Lecture in 2006.
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Stuart Maconie is a supporter of Wigan Athletic and Wigan Warriors.
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In December 2009, Stuart Maconie was awarded an honorary Master's degree by Edge Hill University, Ormskirk.
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Stuart Maconie is politically left of centre and joined the Labour Party at the age of 17.