Stuart Maconie Audiobooks

Hope and Glory: a broadcaster's affectionate survey of modern British life

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Who is Stuart Maconie?

Stuart Maconie, born in 1961, is an English radio DJ, television presenter, writer, journalist and critic – a man who has spent his career in the engine room of British pop culture. He presents on BBC Radio 6 Music, where alongside Mark Radcliffe he hosts the weekend breakfast show from Salford; the pair previously presented together on Radio 2 and on 6 Music’s weekday afternoons. He also hosts the station’s Freak Zone programmes, devoted to music’s stranger corners.

Maconie belongs to a particular British tradition: the broadcaster-writer whose expertise in popular music widens naturally into an affectionate, sharp-eyed interest in popular culture at large.

Stuart Maconie in audiobooks

Hope and Glory is the Maconie title in our catalogue, and its unmistakably British ring suits a writer whose subject has always been popular culture – the music, the telly, the texture of national life. Radio people tend to write the way they broadcast, and Maconie is no exception: the warmth and conversational ease that made him a 6 Music fixture translate directly into the listening experience. This is company as much as content – an amiable, knowledgeable voice for long journeys – and it will land best with listeners who like their social observation delivered with a grin rather than a lecture.