Vinyl Cafe Bike Story

The radio show was written and hosted by the late stuart mclean and featured stories essays and music often recorded at live concerts from across canada and the us.

Vinyl cafe bike story. Its american counterpart would be garrison keillor s a prairie home companion and the funny stories the genial host of the vinyl cafe stuart mclean tells are sort of like the news. Hi we just listened to the story of your dad s bike on podcast of the vinyl cafe and my 8 yr old said when stuart asked if you would stop for an old man on a bike on the side of the road he said yes. The following is a list of stories written by stuart mclean featuring his popular fictional characters dave and morley from the radio program the vinyl cafe first read on air in 1994 many of the stories were eventually compiled in book form followed by audio recording compilations from the program. He was best known as the host of the vinyl cafe on cbc radio 1 and cbc radio 2.

I took the bicycle story on two or three tours mclean 62 says from his toronto home. I performed it up to 60 times before it was broadcast the vinyl cafe presents music by. It was on the air from 1994 2016. He retired in 2004 as a professor at the school of journalism at ryerson polytechnic university in toronto.

The vinyl cafe aired weekly on cbc radio on select public radio stations in the united states and via podcast.