Stuart is the winner of the 2001 Sony Radio Award for Music Broadcaster of the Year and on television he is a stalwart of BBC2’s I Love The 1970s and I Love The 1980s, and of Channel 4’s Top Tens. He also presents BBC Four’s The DVD Collection.

As a writer and journalist he has written for Q Magazine, Elle, The Times, The Guardian, Evening Standard, Daily Express, Select, Mojo, Deluxe and was an assistant editor for the NME. He made his Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2001 with fellow 6 Music presenter Andrew Collins and writer and pundit David Quantick in the acclaimed Lloyd Cole Knew my Father.

Stuart also presents The Freak Zone and The Freakier Zone on 6 Music