Hello again and welcome to this week's fresh batch of Laura's Links. Thanks again to everyone who joined us for The Mark Steyn Club Live Q&A Around the Planet yesterday, hosted by yours truly. In case you missed it, you can hear the replay here. There was a great question asked by one of our Club Members about where to vacation in Canada (before it gets more totally and completely bonkers here). I mentioned a few places on air, and that Americans in particular can certainly get more bang for the buck here in the Deranged Dominion because the Canadian dollar is only worth about fifty cents to the greenbuck nowadays. Regardless, the best recommendation would be to join the next Mark Steyn Club Cruise-which will be taking place in October ...
If you missed our Clubland Q&A with guest host Laura Rosen Cohen, here's the action replay...
Today guest host Laura Rosen Cohen fields questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet at 3pm ET/ 8pm UK...
Rick McGinnis reviews "The Lonely Man"...
"...I blow hot and cold on Artificial Intelligence. Sometimes I think it's the end of everything, and that we will be the last truly human generation. Then again, as the above illustrates, it may just be two duelling interns from Bangalore in the back room fighting for control of the 'Publish' button..."
The "fifteen-minute cities" are already shrinking...
On this week's episode, we go down the Mississippi and up the Nile. Denial is a river in Egypt and Déshabillée is a state of undress in France - and this is the only show that embraces both of them...
Well, it's that time of year again, when the media run their annual stories from Japan about the biggest yearly population fall since records began...
If you missed this week's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
In a summer anthology of poetry and music, Mark remembers Shelley, Mabel and an Ulster atrocity...
Steyn salutes a great songwriting team...
Today's episode was filmed live on the Mark Steyn Iberian Cruise with three of our special guests: Sammy Woodhouse, Samantha Smith and Allison Pearson...
Up there where the air is rarefied: Sinatra and the soundtrack of the Jet Age...
On Serenade Radio's latest episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we take off with Caterina Valente, and build up, somewhat counter-intuitively, to the forgotten theme from a floppo sitcom. But in between come a gubernatorial blockbuster, a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones, and five words you can take to the bank: Frank Sinatra sings Cole Porter.
Welcome to the conclusion of our seventy-third Tale for Our Time: The Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle. In this grand dénouement Holmes and Watson are booked on the Continental express, but at Victoria Station the latter cannot find the former: In vain I searched among the groups of travellers and leave-takers for the lithe figure of my friend. There was no sign of him. I spent a few minutes in assisting a venerable Italian priest, who was endeavouring to make a porter understand, in his broken English, that his luggage was to be booked through to Paris. Then, having taken another look round, I returned to my carriage, where I found that the porter, in spite of the ticket, had given me my decrepit Italian friend as a travelling ...
Programming note: Tomorrow, Saturday, please join me for the latest edition of my Serenade Radio weekend music show, Mark Steyn on the Town. The fun starts at 5pm British Summer Time - which is 6pm in Western Europe and 12 noon North American Eastern. You can listen from almost anywhere on the planet by clicking the button at top right here. ~Ahead of that, welcome to the seventy-third audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time. We are in our ninth season, and we've built a spectacular archive that runs the gamut from A to Z ...well, not quite, but certainly A to W - Jane Austen to P G Wodehouse. The newest addition to our collection is our fourth adaptation by the author who launched our series of audio adventures, Sir Arthur ...
On this week's episode, we start and end with memorable mononyms, from Sting to Hildegarde. We also remember Cleo Laine and the Royal Victoria Hotel in Nassau...
Welcome to the conclusion of our seventy-second Tale for Our Time: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad...
In tonight's episode of Heart of Darkness, there is something more terrifying than cannibals - fog...
Welcome to Part Seven of our seventy-second audio entertainment in Tales for Our Time. This summer, we're enjoying Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad...
In Part Five of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness our protagonist finds his fellow Europeans both absurd and disturbing...
Welcome to Part Two of Heart of Darkness, our summer audio adventure in Tales for Our Time...
Welcome to the seventy-second audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time...
A remote fantastical kingdom far from Europe's chancelleries of power... An unpopular monarch on the eve of his coronation... A ruling class of plotters and would-be usurpers... ...and a gentleman adventurer on holiday. No, not Ruritania in the nineteenth century, but the United Kingdom in the twenty-first...