Stuart Maconie Pays Tribute To Wainwright
19/07/06

Just to prove that Alfred Wainwright’s legacy reaches the places other mountain writers can’t, this year’s Wainwright Memorial Lecture comes from a background of popular music and alternative comedy.

Stuart Maconie

Stuart Maconie, star of Radio 2, Radio 4 and a host of broadcasting channels in between, pays tribute to the greatest fellwalker of them all at Rheged on Saturday 21st of October.

Stuart, who’s programmes have helped turn Radio 2 into one of the most successful music channels has also been involved with a couple of shows that may be particularly appropriate in the Wainwright context – It’s Grim up North and Grumpy Old Men On Holiday.

Like Wainwright, Stuart escaped from a northern town to find liberation in the mountains. For Wainwright it was the flight from Blackburn; for Stuart an escape tunnel from Skelmersdale.

Stuart is a mad keen fellwalker and so far has done 200 of the Wainwright summits, so he isn’t just a pretty face. In fact he might say he isn’t even a pretty face. But what he will bring to his subject is a sharp sense of humour and a whole new take on the Wainwright story.

The Wainwright Memorial Lecture, previously given by Hunter Davies, Eric Robson and Richard Wakeford, the former Chief Executive of the Countryside Agency, is one of the highlights of the Lakeland talks calendar and tickets are limited.

Tickets available from Rheged on 01768 868000 price £10 (£8 for Wainwright Society members) and anyone attending the lecture is also offered discounted entry of £4 to the National Mountaineering Exhibition, also at Rheged.

Full details are on the website: www.wainwright.org.uk/events/2006/memorial_lecture.html   

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