Inspired by Libraries: Stuart Maconie

Stuart is a prolific, popular and extremely highly regarded TV and radio presenter, journalist, columnist and best-selling author. He is on BBC Radio 6 Music (with Mark Radcliffe) every weekend morning between 8 and 11am.

His latest book, The Nanny State Made Me (Ebury Press) 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. He is currently working on a revised last chapter to reflect events since March 2020.

Stuart 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 the new Radio 4 quiz My Generation and has triumphed in Pointless Celebrities on two occasions where is chosen charity was Salford Working Class Movement library!

Hear more about Stuart's love of libraries in this intimate chat with Hannah Kate from North Manchester FM, which took place during the inaugural Festival of Libraries 2021 in Eccles Library.

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