
Backstage at the Vinyl Cafe Podcast
1) Amazing Spaces – The Library of Parliament, Museum of History & Gander International Airport
“There was a time when the Gander airport was the biggest airport in the world”On this week’s episode, we have three of Stuart’s opening monologues – essays about some of the places and spaces that ca...Show More
2) More Arthurs!
It’s our annual Thanksgiving tradition – the Vinyl Cafe Arthur Awards. More treasures from the Vinyl Cafe archives about some amazing acts of kindness! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more ...Show More
3) Quebec Connection - A Trip to Quebec
“The Pensionne du Quebec was lit up like a party ship”We’ve got a Quebec selection for you on today’s podcast. A story about Sam’s school trip to Quebec City, plus a Stuart McLean script about cheese ...Show More
4) Cakes Gone Wrong - The Birthday Cake & Arthur Takes the Cake
“Surely Mary wouldn’t miss one of those little buttercream shrubs…”On this week’s episode of Backstage, two stories about cakes, those special occasion cakes that promise to be oh so good… That is, un...Show More
5) Rodentia - Dave and the Mouse & Rat-a-tat-tat
“PPMS. Phantom peripheral mouse syndrome”Jess and Dave have something in common: rodent phobia! Jess shares how she got over hers. And in two hilarious Vinyl Cafe stories we’ll hear how Dave mana...Show More
6) Compromising Positions - The Bare Truth & Yoga Retreat
“Mary had never ever been downstairs with no clothes on. Never. Ever.”We’ve got some classic Dave and Mary Turlington adventures on this week’s episode – as they find themselves in some compromising p...Show More
7) September - School Days
“Every year on the first day of school, to the great amazement of the kids in kindergarten…Miss MacNeal would burp the alphabet from A to Z.” Welcome back to Backstage at the Vinyl Cafe! Our firs...Show More
8) Season 6 - Starting September 5th
We hope you'll join us next Friday for Season 6 of Backstage at the Vinyl Cafe! We’ve got more Dave and Morley stories for you, more of Stuart McLean’s wonderful Vinyl Cafe essays and, of course, more...Show More
9) We Regret to Inform You: Rejecting Monty Python
This week, more from our Apostrophe Podcast Network family! We think you will enjoy, "We Regret to Inform You: The Rejection Podcast." Sidney O’Reilly shares the stories of successful people...Show More
10) REWIND WEDNESDAY: Bloopers
Something special for you for our first bonus episode. From one of my absolute favourite Vinyl Cafe radio shows, from 2011, this is Stuart and I in studio talking about bloopers! We laughed so ha...Show More