Stuart McLean

Every weekend more than 700,000 people tune in to CBC Radio and a number of US public radio stations to hear Stuart McLean's "The Vinyl Cafe." Stuart McLean, one of Canada's most beloved storytellers and humorists, entertains his listeners with Canadian music, colourful fiction and his thoughts on a wide range of topics, from the trivial to the thought-provoking. The extremely popular stories from the show have been collected in seven bestselling books, including the most recently published Extreme Vinyl Cafe. Two of the collections, Home from the Vinyl Cafe and Vinyl Cafe Unplugged, have received the prestigious Stephen Leacock Award for Humour.

McLean is also an award-winning journalist, a professor emeritus of Ryerson University and the author of a number of bestselling non-fiction books. Since 1998, he has taken The Vinyl Cafe show on the road across Canada, performing in towns large and small, from St. John's, Newfoundland to Whitehorse in the Yukon. He has also published and read extensively in the U.K., the U.S. and Australia.

• Stories from the Vinyl Café

  Stuart McLean incorporates the Vinyl Café characters and storylines into his speeches. The Vinyl Café chronicles the misadventures of Dave, the owner of the "Vinyl Cafe", the world's smallest record store, where the motto is "We may not be big, but we're small." The show also features Dave's wife, Morley, their two children, Sam and Stephanie and assorted friends and neighbours. Stuart may tailor his talks to specific groups and convention themes when requested.

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