Stuart McLean is an award-winning author, radio broadcaster, and journalist who is best-known for his radio program The Vinyl Cafe, which airs on CBC Radio in Canada and on public radio in the United States.
The program features various stories and Canadian musicians, and often ends with one of McLean's dramatic/comedic stories about "Dave and Morley," a fictional couple and their two children.
The former professor at the School of Journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, has written nine books, three of which won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.
Life and Career
McLean started his radio career in the 1980s making documentaries for the radio program Sunday Morning for CBC Radio before becoming the show's executive producer.
In 1994, McLean created the radio series The Vinyl Cafe for the CBC, which he frequently records in theaters across Canada, and occasionally in the United States.
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I guess the thing I’m proudest of, when I do my shows in theatres across Canada, is that there’s always a grandfather or a grandmother in their 90s, and there is always somebody nine years old. And many people in between. College students and young married people and retired people. And they all seem to get it on their own level. They find a place in the work where they feel comfortable and that is the thing I feel maybe the most proud about, that we’ve created this world that people come together around.http://www.thegate.ca/front-page/01287/stuart-mclean-rails-and-tales/
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Frequent guest and sometimes host of CBC Radio's Morningside with Peter Gzowski
