Beyond The Mark Steyn Show:
Columns, poems, tales, music, movies and more from Mark and friends
Steyn's Song of the Week
Body and Soul
If you missed today's Serenade Radio broadcast, here's a chance to catch up via this SteynOnline premiere of one of our audio Songs of the Week. In this show I tell the story of one of the most recorded of all compositions...
Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: March 23-29
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...
Rick's Flicks
A Hard One to Like: Mike Leigh's Naked
How hard is it to recommend one of your favorite films when the adjectives most used to describe it are "grim", "depressing", "bleak" and "harrowing"? Mike Leigh's Naked (1993) is described as a cult film, won several awards when it was released (including best actor and director at Cannes) and is inevitably called one of Leigh's essential films. But still – how do you feel good about telling people to watch a "feel bad" movie?
On the Town
Blues for Beginners
On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town a brace of Number Ones from the Continent and the Commonwealth, the only Ulster-Georgian pop star, and Frank Sinatra gives us six lessons in the blues.
Topical Take
Big Bird and his Blondes
Mark did enjoy this week's Congressional appearance by the PBS and NPR chief executives. They looked like animatronic sisters from a factory that specialises in churning out parodic upper-middle-class woke blondes to head public bodies...
Clubland Q&A
Two-Tiered, Again...
In case you missed today's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
Politics & Current Affairs
Purpose vs Passivity
Setting aside any "national security" concerns arising from letting The Atlantic's Russia-hoaxer Jeffrey Goldberg in on the Administration's Houthi-bombing call, I doubt that any creature more sentient than an amoeba can have been surprised to learn that US cabinet members "loathe" European "freeloading". If you're paying attention, you'll know that total contempt for the Euros appears to be entirely bipartisan...
Mann vs Steyn
A STICKy Situation...
In response to overwhelming demand from our interested readers, here's an at-a-glance guide to the current state of play in Mann vs Steyn...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday March 26
Thank you for joining Laura today for a lively Clubland Q&A. In case you missed it, here's the action replay...
Steyn's Song of the Week
We'll Gather Lilacs
On our springtime Saturday show, I played this particular song as part of our Sinatra Sextet. If you'd like to know a little more about it, here's a chance via this SteynOnline premiere of one of our Serenade Radio Songs of the Week.
On the Town
Spring Hopes Eternal
On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town we're in a vernal mood with an especially springy Sinatra Sextet plus additional selections for the season from Johnny Mercer and Edvard Grieg, with side-trips to Sweden and South Africa...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Roberts' Rule of Disorder
If you missed today's edition of Steyn's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay...
Politics & Current Affairs
La trahison des experts
Judges usurp self-government; scientists usurp core liberties; and educators usurp parents. That doesn't leave a lot...
Politics & Current Affairs
Return to Sender?
Steyn on the Irish Question, the Statue of Liberty, Covid grifting and more...
Mann vs Steyn
COURT FOOL, n. The plaintiff.
Live by Falsifying Evidence, Die by Falsifying Evidence...
Mann vs Steyn
Mann Ordered to Pay More than Those He Sought to Destroy
In a stunning but not unexpected ruling today, Judge Irving of the DC Superior Court has reduced the unconstitutional punitive damages jury award against Mark from one million dollars to a mere $5,000...
Tales for Our Time
The Prisoner of Windsor
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...
A Clubman's Notes
A Prop of Your Declining Years
In episode seventeen, Sam expects Billie's father to be rather more thrilled about his prospective son-in-law than perhaps circumstances warrant...
A Clubman's Notes
Out of Evil Cometh Good?
Welcome to our regularly scheduled audio Ovaltine twenty minutes before you lower your lamp. It's Episode Sixteen of a comic caper by P G Wodehouse, The Girl on the Boat: a novel first published in 1922...
A Clubman's Notes
Nisi Prius
Episode Fifteen of The Girl on the Boat, P G Wodehouse's comic novel of 1922...
A Clubman's Notes
A Rather Eventful Night
P G Wodehouse's The Girl on the Boat is a blast of pure joy to get us through the doubtful days of early spring. In tonight's episode for one of the house guests at Windles it is, thanks to a piece of lobster shell, a rather eventful night. Part 14.
A Clubman's Notes
The Calm of the Country
Welcome to the thirteenth episode of our current Tale for Our Time: The Girl on the Boat by P G Wodehouse...
A Clubman's Notes
Strike Up the Orchestrion!
Episode Twelve of The Girl on the Boat by P G Wodehouse...
A Clubman's Notes
Dinner for Six
Welcome to Part Eleven of Mark's nightly audio adventure: The Girl on the Boat, a comic romp from 1922 by P G Wodehouse...
A Clubman's Notes
Two-Gun Thomas and the Wolves of the Bowery
Welcome to Part Ten in our series of audio adventures, Tales for Our Time. This month's yarn was published 103 years ago, and is revived here because of its comic ingenuity and sheer delight: The Girl on the Boat, by P G Wodehouse...
A Clubman's Notes
Asunder at the Seaside
Our latest Tale for Our Time charges on: Episode Nine of The Girl on the Boat, P G Wodehouse's comic romp of 1922...
A Clubman's Notes
"How Was I to Know?"
In Episode Eight of The Girl on the Boat, a ship's concert for the benefit of the Seamen's Widows and Orphans is trying enough in the best of circumstances, but even more so when your fiancée fails to recognise who you're meant to be imitating...
A Clubman's Notes
The Hit of the Trinity Smoker
It's time for Part Seven of our latest Tale for Our Time: The Girl on the Boat is P G Wodehouse's nautical entertainment of 1922...
A Clubman's Notes
An Excess of Rhyme
Welcome to Part Six of our nightly audio entertainment - The Girl on the Boat, P G Wodehouse's comic diversion of 1922...
A Clubman's Notes
Exclusive Interview!
Welcome to Part Five of our brand new Tale for Our Time: The Girl on the Boat by P G Wodehouse, published in 1922...
A Clubman's Notes
The Which of What
Here we go with Part Four of our latest audio diversion, and our second foray into the oeuvre of P G Wodehouse...
A Clubman's Notes
Crag to Crag, Blonde to Blonde
Welcome to the third installment of our brand new Tale for Our Time, an ocean-going romp by P G Wodehouse, published in 1922...
A Clubman's Notes
Cat-Swinging on the Briny
Welcome to Part Two of The Girl on the Boat, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and our second foray into the oeuvre of P G Wodehouse - as well as, we hope, a respite from the woes of the world, if only for twenty minutes before you lower your lamp...
A Clubman's Notes
When the Getting Was Good...
Welcome to the sixty-ninth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time...
A Clubman's Notes
Chilling Out
The first part of a Jack London tale of exceptionally frosty fiction...
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