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The Mark Steyn Audio Show
The Day After Labor
Happy Labor Day/Happy Labour Day to our American and Canadian listeners respectively...
Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: August 24-30
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...
Rick's Flicks
Dirty Movie: Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest
Faye Dunaway is famously unwilling to talk about playing Joan Crawford in the notorious 1981 biopic Mommie Dearest, a film that she claims damaged her reputation by grafting her portrayal of Crawford to her own cinematic persona and professional reputation. Which is shame since it is possibly her greatest performance – it's definitely her most audacious – and dominates clip reels of her career whenever she's in the news. Whatever Dunaway thinks about it, her Joan Crawford will take top billing in any video career summary in some future obituary. Defenders of Joan Crawford insist that Dunaway's indelible performance – as much if not more than the tell-all memoir written by her daughter, on which the film is based – damaged Crawford's ...
Topical Take
A Tide in the Affairs of Men
Hurricane Katrina made landfall exactly two decades ago...
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Lionhearted Lass
In case you missed this week's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday August 27th
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the planet...
Politics & Current Affairs
Forcing the Contradictions
Well, it's been nine months since the last US election. So time to get the next election underway...
Topical Take
Role Reversal
Increasingly in US life, whether or not something is "unconstitutional" has no real-world meaning...
Politics & Current Affairs
If You Go Down to the Woods Today...
The "fifteen-minute cities" are already shrinking...
Politics & Current Affairs
Going Dutch
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...
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Enablers of Evil
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...
On the Town
Back in the Old Routine
On this week's episode we celebrate two musical centenaries, enjoy a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones down the decades, and conclude our series of Sinatra Summer Stock with Oklahoma! In between come musical artistes from Bing to 10cc, and a very Marmitey song...
Steyn's Song of the Week
There's A Kind of Hush (All Over the World) with Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits
A live Song of the Week with the irrepressible Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits and a great pop song by Les Reed and Geoff Stephens...
On the Town
And the Living Is Easy
We begin with The Naked Gun and a very niche musical genre and work our way round to a Vegas lounge take on monarchical music hall from England...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Come Fly with Me
Up there where the air is rarefied: Sinatra and the soundtrack of the Jet Age...
On the Town
Grand at the Game
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.
A Clubman's Notes
An Unwanted Intrusion at Victoria
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 ...
A Clubman's Notes
The Napoleon of Crime
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 the Town
Love Alone
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...
A Clubman's Notes
An Irritating Pretence
Welcome to the conclusion of our seventy-second Tale for Our Time: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad...
A Clubman's Notes
A Vast Amount of Red
Welcome to Part Two of Heart of Darkness, our summer audio adventure in Tales for Our Time...
A Clubman's Notes
The Very End of the World
Welcome to the seventy-second audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time...
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...
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