Stuart McLean

Stuart McLean on stage at the Centennial Concert Hall in Winnipeg, Manitoba

Stuart McLean (born April 19, 1948 in Montreal West, Quebec) is a Canadian radio broadcaster, humourist, monologist, and author, best known as the host of the CBC Radio program The Vinyl Cafe. He is often described as a "story-telling comic", though he has written many serious stories. He is known for his distinctive voice and his ability to alter his popular stories to make them distinctive on every show.

Early life

McLean was born in Montreal to Australian immigrant parents. He was educated at Lower Canada College in Montreal, and he graduated from Sir George Williams University with a B.A. degree in 1971.

Career

From 1978 until 1982, McLean made documentaries for the radio program Sunday Morning for CBC Radio, and from 1982 until 1984 he acted as the show's executive producer. During the 1980s and 1990s he was a frequent guest and sometimes host of Morningside with Peter Gzowski. He was a contender in 1989 to become cohost with Valerie Pringle of the CBC's television newsmagazine series Midday, but the role went to Ralph Benmergui.[1]

As a summer replacement show, McLean created a radio program called The Vinyl Cafe in 1994. By autumn 1997 the show was broadcast every Sunday at noon. McLean's books of stories from The Vinyl Cafe have won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour three times.

Since 1998, McLean has taken The Vinyl Cafe on the road to theatres across Canada and the United States. The Vinyl Cafe is broadcast every weekend on CBC Radio and is also heard via satellite radio around the world and on public radio stations in the US, as well as a weekly podcast.

McLean retired in 2004 as a professor at the School of Journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto after 30 years at the former Polytechnical Institute.

The 2015 Vinyl Cafe Christmas Tour was cancelled on November 22, when it was announced that Stuart McLean would be undergoing therapy for melanoma.[2]

Bibliography

Discography

Awards

Honorary positions

Honorary degrees

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Prime Timer headed for the Baby Journal". Toronto Star, April 2, 1989.
  2. ↑ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/stuart-mclean-vinylcafe-tour-cancelled-melanoma-1.3329413
  3. ↑ "Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour winners". Retrieved March 27, 2011.
  4. ↑ "CAA Jubilee Award for Short Stories". Retrieved March 26, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Appointments to the Order of Canada".
  6. ↑ "Vinyl Cafe Website – The Official Website". CBC News.

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