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Maconie had his Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2001, collaborating with fellow BBC 6 Music presenter Andrew Collins, and with writer and pundit David Quantick, in Lloyd Cole Knew my Father, which has been re-broadcast on BBC Radio 2. The two also collaborated on the late night movie review television series Collins & Maconie's Movie Club in 1996 for ITV.
He wrote Folklore, the official biography of long-standing Manchester band James, and 3862 Days, the official biography of Blur.
In 2001, Maconie was the winner of the Sony Radio Academy Award for Music Broadcaster of the Year. He also won a silver Sony Award 2007 for the Freak Zone.
He also guest starred in Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights as the presenter of a spoof version of Crimewatch called 'Crimetime' and appeared as himself in Monkey Dust, becoming a victim of retro-obsessed serial killer Ivan Dobsky.
Maconie is also a keen fellwalker having completed, on 20 June 2009, all 214 Wainwrights (in the county of Cumbria). He is an honorary member of the Wainwright Society, and gave their Memorial Lecture in 2006. In late 2009, Experience Northwest released a series of short stories he wrote about the Hidden Gems in England's Northwest.
On 28 December 2009, he won an edition of BBC's Celebrity Mastermind by answering questions on his specialist subject of British poetry of the 20th Century.
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