Omni Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 An icon of Canadian cultural entertainment passed today. May he Rest in Peace http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1690490586 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omni Posted February 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 I have followed this man since I first discovered him on a radio in a hangar in northern BC I was hanging around waiting for the weather to improve. I had just moved into a new place and didn't have my own radio yet. Next day I was out buying one and have been enriched ever since by the likes of Stuart. He will be missed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
?Impact Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 A very sad day indeed. I discovered Stuart MacLean many years ago when I spent a lot of time in the car, such a welcome change from what you usually find on the radio. After chancing upon his show several times, I took to downloading old podcasts just to get some more. I can't help but think that was what radio must have been like back in its heydays of the 1930's. I can just picture entire families crowding around the warmth of an old tube radio listening to the adventures of Dave & Morley after supper. Christmas Turkey has never been the same since. While I don't keep a bucket list, if I did then unfortunately I wouldn't be able to check off what would surely be an item. I have long wanted to go to one of his roadshows, but whenever I heard the schedule it would have already passed through my part of the country. I don't own, nor have I read any of his books, but I can't imaging reading one of his stories without that unmistakable voice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omni Posted February 16, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 One of the reasons I appreciate CBC radio so much is I could travel,(and did) from Inuvik to St. Johns and many a place in between and tune in and get a laugh from Stuart. Maybe since I am of Scottish descent and maybe if I happen to meet a Chinese man named Wong, I will try and strike up a deli somewhere named 'Wong's' Scottish Meat pies" and see how we do. And of course sell/trade a bit of vinyl as well. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
August1991 Posted February 17, 2017 Report Share Posted February 17, 2017 68? When someone dies at such an age - I frankly have my own opinion: We are promised Three Score and Ten. Anything more is "gravy". Stuart McLean slightly fell short; I reserve my empathy for younger, smart people who die needlessly in Syria. ===== It is noteworthy that, like the Soviet Union, only Death will change the English CBC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpankyMcFarland Posted February 18, 2017 Report Share Posted February 18, 2017 (edited) It was extraordinary achievement to sustain the program and keep it fresh year after year. He fought the good fight against the dying or our rural community light. I loved his early interviews with Gzowski as well: a dairy farmer just outside Toronto surrounded by suburbs and still refusing to sell up; an escort and how she invested her money with PWC and Harbourfront apartments; an exquisitely polite bank robber, just out of prison and waiting to use a public phone, describing the excitement of crime ('I can't deny it's a rush - everything seems so clear') and the bewildering colours on Yonge St. after the endless shades of grey inside. Edited February 18, 2017 by SpankyMcFarland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omni Posted February 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2017 Stuart was also a documentary producer and here is one I found interesting. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/popup/audio/listen.html?autoPlay=true&clipIds=&mediaIds=878670915622&contentarea=radio&subsection1=radio1&subsection2=currentaffairs&subsection3=the_doc_project&contenttype=audio&title=2017/02/16/1.3962012-celebrating-a-side-of-stuart-mclean-you-may-not-know-documentary-maker&contentid=1.3962012 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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