Please join Steyn for another edition of his still newish weekend music show Mark Steyn on the Town. This week he's luxuriating in summer songs, with some cooling seasonal beverages along the way. On the Town airs Saturday at 5pm UK/6pm Western Europe/12 noon North American Eastern. You can listen from almost anywhere on the planet by clicking the button at top right here.
~The Mark Steyn Club is not for everyone, but, if you're so inclined, it does have a unique combination of features, including Steyn's Tales for Our Time, a cavalcade of almost seventy audio adventures in classic but highly pertinent literature, from George Orwell's Animal Farm to H G Wells's Time Machine, via Jane Austen, P G Wodehouse and Baroness Orczy.
Mark's latest yarn is the book that introduced the world to Bulldog Drummond. For a character widely derided as an anachronism even then, he's proving very popular with listeners. Elisa Angel, a First Fortnight Founding Member of the Steyn Club, says:
I usually binge listen to Tales for Our Time, but I am following along on Bulldog Drummond each day, and I am desperate to hear the next edition.
By the way, listening to Tales for Our Time on a road trip is terrific. I drove from Alabama to Texas listening to Mark's reading of Burning Daylight and I loved every minute of the trip.
The miles fly by with Tales for Our Time.
So welcome to Part Twenty-Two of Sapper's caper of 1920. In tonight's episode of Bulldog Drummond, Hugh and his chums examine their captives:
"Say, flop-ears, what are you, anyway?"
"I am the secretary of a social organisation which aims at the amelioration of the conditions under which the workers of the world slave," returned the other with dignity.
"You don't say," remarked the American, unmoved. "Do the workers of the world know about it..?"
"What do you know about Peterson, little man?" said Hugh...
"Nothing, save that he is the man whom we have been looking for, for years," cried the other. "The man of stupendous organising power, who has brought together and welded into one the hundreds of societies similar to mine, who before this have each, on their own, been feebly struggling towards the light. Now we are combined, and our strength is due to him..."
"Now that you're all welded together, what do you propose to do?"
"That you shall see in good time," cried the other triumphantly. "Constitutional methods have failed—and, besides, we've got no time to wait for them."
To listen to the twenty-second episode of Bulldog Drummond, please click here and log-in. If you're late getting started on this current Tale, you'll find the story so far here.
Tales for Our Time began as an experimental feature we introduced as a bonus for Mark Steyn Club members, and, as you know, Mark said if it was a total stinkeroo, we'd eighty-six the thing and speak no more of it. But we're thrilled to say it's proved very popular, and is now well into its eighth season. If you're a Club member and you incline more to the stinkeroo side of things, give it your best in the comments section below. But, either way, do join Steyn tomorrow evening, a few hours after Saturday's Mark Steyn on the Town at Serenade Radio, for Part Twenty-Three of Bulldog Drummond.
