While Mark continues to recuperate, we turn to the terrible events of exactly half-a-century ago - November 10th 1975 - on Lake Superior, when a full crew of twenty-nine men from what was then the largest ship on the lake were lost in a ferocious storm. So, upon the fiftieth anniversary of a terrible shipwreck, we reprise Steyn's thoughts on the song it inspired: When it comes to trains and boats and planes, Gordon Lightfoot hymned all three. His first enduring composition, "Early Morning Rain", was born from homesickness, when he would go to the airport in Los Angeles and watch the flights taking off back to Canada. But it's really a train song for the jet age. When he tried producing an actual train song, his "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" ...
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On this week's episode, Steyn starts big and ends bigger. In between we play some songs for this season of remembrance...
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Mark fields questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet...
Rich Lowry and National Review throw in the towel...
Mark on an iconic progressive rock track turned easy-listening favorite...
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Mark and Larry Adler on an enduring song from an almighty flop...
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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...
Welcome to Part Nine of Agatha Christie's third very popular contribution to Tales for Our Time...
Welcome to Part Seven of our seventy-fourth audio entertainment in Tales for Our Time...
Welcome to Part Six of our autumnal entertainment: The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie...
Here is part five of Mark's serialisation of The Murder on the Links.
Here we go with Part Four of our brand new Tale for Our Time - our autumnal adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic of 1923, The Murder on the Links...
Welcome to Part Three of our serialisation of The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie...
Welcome to Part Two of The Murder on the Links, our autumnal audio adventure in Tales for Our Time...
Welcome along to the seventy-fourth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and to our third offering from the world's bestselling novelist: The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie...
Welcome to Part Ten of America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It...
Welcome to Part Nine in our new audio adaptation of a favourite book among SteynOnline readers: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It...
Welcome to Part Eight in Mark's first ever self-narration of this highly prescient tome...
Welcome to Part Seven in our new audio adaptation of a favourite book among SteynOnline readers: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It.
Welcome to Part Six in our new audio adaptation of a favourite book among Steyn readers: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It...
Welcome to Part Five in our new audio adaptation of America Alone...
Here we go with Part Four of our new audio adaptation of a favourite book among Steyn readers: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It...
Welcome to Part Three of Mark's boffo bestseller on demography and its discontents...
Welcome to Part Two of Mark's new audio serialisation of his bestseller America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It...
Part One of Mark's audio adaptation of his demographic blockbuster...