Welcome to another of our weekend specials this summer. From an actor Madonna took an instant liking to through to a long-serving Lord Justice of the Court of Appeals, the Chinese coronavirus has cut a swathe through the famous and infamous - as Mark has noted 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: Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry maker, a beloved Pokémon voice, Abe Lincoln's son on Broadway, a pioneer goal scorer, Rome's hometown marathon runner, Cameroon's biggest international pop star, a Romanian dissident, a Swedish trombonist, a Senegalese soccer supremo, and the man behind some of "Saturday Night Live"'s most awkward moments...
We hope this half-an-hour of words and music will 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 Sixteen of our new Tale for Our Time, The Prisoner of Windsor.
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