Welcome to the second of our weekend specials this summer. From Tony Award winners to real-estate scammers, the Chinese coronavirus cut a swathe through the famous and infamous in the spring of this year - as Mark noted throughout each week in his popular Last Call feature on The Mark Steyn Show. In this anthology he remembers some of those lost to ChiCom-19 from all around the world: Miss Italia, Yogi Bear's girlfriend, a hippie marquess, the mother of a Jaws victim, the scourge of East End gangland, a Spanish grandee, a Serbian bishop, an Italian shoemaker, a Zimbabwean TV host, a French anti-abortionist, and an American singer who wrote a song about the disposal of his own remains...
We hope these forty minutes of words and music provide a respite from the civilizational collapse all around this Sunday. To listen, simply click above.
Mark will be back later today with Steyn's Song of the Week and Episode Two of our new Tale for Our Time, The Prisoner of Windsor.
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