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Vinyl Cafe Audio Stories #8
Vinyl Cafe: A Christmas Collection
CD One
1. Dave Cooks the Turkey
2. Ferrets for Christmas
3. Christmas on the Road
CD Two:
1. Christmas at the Turlingtons'
2. Polly Anderson's Christmas Party
3. Christmas Presents
4. On the Roof
1. Dave Cooks the Turkey
2. Ferrets for Christmas
3. Christmas on the Road
CD Two:
1. Christmas at the Turlingtons'
2. Polly Anderson's Christmas Party
3. Christmas Presents
4. On the Roof
Audio CD
First published August 1, 2006
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About the author
Stuart McLean
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From the Vinyl Cafe web site: Stuart McLean was a best-selling author, award-winning journalist and humorist, and host of CBC Radio program The Vinyl Cafe.
Stuart began his broadcasting career making radio documentaries for CBC Radio's Sunday Morning. In 1979 he won an ACTRA award for Best Radio Documentary for his contribution to the program's coverage of the Jonestown massacre.
Following Sunday Morning, Stuart spent seven years as a regular columnist and guest host on CBC's Morningside. His book, The Morningside World of Stuart McLean, was a Canadian bestseller and a finalist in the 1990 City of Toronto Book Awards.
Stuart has also written Welcome Home: Travels in Small Town Canada, and edited the collection When We Were Young. Welcome Home was chosen by the Canadian Authors' Association as the best non-fiction book of 1993.
Stuart's books Stories from the Vinyl Cafe, Home from the Vinyl Cafe, Vinyl Cafe Unplugged, Vinyl Cafe Diaries, Dave Cooks the Turkey, Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe and Extreme Vinyl Cafe have all been Canadian bestsellers. Vinyl Cafe Diaries was awarded the Canadian Authors' Association Jubilee Award in 2004. Stuart was also a three-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for Home from the Vinyl Cafe, Vinyl Cafe Unplugged and, most recently, Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe.
Vinyl Cafe books have also been published in the U.S., the U.K., Australia and New Zealand.
Stuart was a professor emeritus at Ryerson University in Toronto and former director of the broadcast division of the School of Journalism. In 1993 Trent University named him the first Rooke Fellow for Teaching, Writing and Research. He has also been honored by: Nipissing University (EdD(H)); University of Windsor (Lld) and Trent University (DLH). Stuart served as Honorary Colonel of the 8th Air Maintenance Squadron at 8 Wing, Trenton from 2005 to 2008.
Since 1998 Stuart has taken The Vinyl Cafe to theatres across Canada, playing in both large and small towns from St. John's, Newfoundland to Whitehorse in the Yukon.
Close to one million people listen to The Vinyl Cafe every weekend on CBC Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio and on a growing number of Public Radio stations in the United States. The program is also broadcast on an occasional basis on the BBC.
From the Vinyl Cafe web site: Stuart McLean was a best-selling author, award-winning journalist and humorist, and host of CBC Radio program The Vinyl Cafe.
Stuart began his broadcasting career making radio documentaries for CBC Radio's Sunday Morning. In 1979 he won an ACTRA award for Best Radio Documentary for his contribution to the program's coverage of the Jonestown massacre.
Following Sunday Morning, Stuart spent seven years as a regular columnist and guest host on CBC's Morningside. His book, The Morningside World of Stuart McLean, was a Canadian bestseller and a finalist in the 1990 City of Toronto Book Awards.
Stuart has also written Welcome Home: Travels in Small Town Canada, and edited the collection When We Were Young. Welcome Home was chosen by the Canadian Authors' Association as the best non-fiction book of 1993.
Stuart's books Stories from the Vinyl Cafe, Home from the Vinyl Cafe, Vinyl Cafe Unplugged, Vinyl Cafe Diaries, Dave Cooks the Turkey, Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe and Extreme Vinyl Cafe have all been Canadian bestsellers. Vinyl Cafe Diaries was awarded the Canadian Authors' Association Jubilee Award in 2004. Stuart was also a three-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour for Home from the Vinyl Cafe, Vinyl Cafe Unplugged and, most recently, Secrets from the Vinyl Cafe.
Vinyl Cafe books have also been published in the U.S., the U.K., Australia and New Zealand.
Stuart was a professor emeritus at Ryerson University in Toronto and former director of the broadcast division of the School of Journalism. In 1993 Trent University named him the first Rooke Fellow for Teaching, Writing and Research. He has also been honored by: Nipissing University (EdD(H)); University of Windsor (Lld) and Trent University (DLH). Stuart served as Honorary Colonel of the 8th Air Maintenance Squadron at 8 Wing, Trenton from 2005 to 2008.
Since 1998 Stuart has taken The Vinyl Cafe to theatres across Canada, playing in both large and small towns from St. John's, Newfoundland to Whitehorse in the Yukon.
Close to one million people listen to The Vinyl Cafe every weekend on CBC Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio and on a growing number of Public Radio stations in the United States. The program is also broadcast on an occasional basis on the BBC.
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Displaying 1 - 13 of 13 reviews
December 3, 2017
Many years ago on a Christmas compilation album, my sister discovered Polly Anderson's Christmas Party. She told me, You've got to listen to this. Apparently this guy is the Canadian Garrison Keillor. The rest of the album was all music, and then suddenly, this howlingly funny story about a Christmas party gone wrong. We made a copy so that we could listen to it every year. And then, a couple of years ago, my husband discovered that there was an entire album of stories about Dave, his wife Morley, and their Christmas misadventures. Now we listen to the whole thing every year, and we've discovered that Polly Anderson is just the tip of the iceberg. I think Dave Cooks the Turkey (which is referenced in Polly Anderson, to our initial bafflement) is the funniest, and Christmas Presents brings a tear to my eye, but they're all good.
January 3, 2019
I miss Stuart McLean.
December 15, 2022
I’m so glad I listened to this particular Vinyl Cafe Christmas collection this year. There was one story that was new to me.
November 1, 2020
These stories are classics and I always love listening to them around Christmas time.
December 31, 2016
My husband bought this compilation for me for Christmas this year, after we'd discovered Stuart McLean's Vinyl Cafe on CBC, so we would have something to listen to in the car on our way to his mother's house. I don't think we've ever laughed quite so hard before. While at the same time our hearts grew 3x larger. McLean has a wonderful way of phrasing and describing things so that you feel as if you're in his kitchen and he's talking to you about people you both know. Dave and Morley, Stephanie and Sam, feel like a real Canadian family. A family you would love to know. A family we can all relate to. My mother-in-law fell in love with them also when we listened to a few stories in the car with her. We have a new compilation to listen to now, Up & Away - care of my mother-in-law, who promptly decided we couldn't run out of Dave stories so soon! Can't wait to hear them all!
July 16, 2009
This was the one that introduced me to Dave and the Vinyl Cafe. Dave Cooks the Turkey is a scream and Ferrets for Christmas is not far behind.
August 27, 2014
Dave Cooks the Turkey is da bomb!!!! Stuart reading his tales makes it Fabulous!!!
February 12, 2015
I love Stuart McLean...I feel that's all I need to say!
April 7, 2018
Hilarious short stories that make a long ride seem short.
November 11, 2020
“Dave Cooks the Turkey” is a Christmas classic, made all that much funnier by Stuart McLean’s reading. All of the stories here are great.
December 19, 2023
I could listen to Stuart McLean all day. Truly, a Canadian legend!
Especially around Christmas, I have a craving to listen to Stuart telling us stories about Dave, Morley, and their lives.
This is an excellent audio book to turn on this time of year and I loved listening to these 7 stories over the last few weeks. Excellent - and I need to find more Stuart McLean stories for my collection!
Especially around Christmas, I have a craving to listen to Stuart telling us stories about Dave, Morley, and their lives.
This is an excellent audio book to turn on this time of year and I loved listening to these 7 stories over the last few weeks. Excellent - and I need to find more Stuart McLean stories for my collection!
December 28, 2015
listened to the audio book, very funny
December 28, 2022
I still laugh every year at almost every story, each one perfect in its humour and humanity. I miss Stuart McLean.
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