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There were probably as many westerns on TV as movie screens by the last half of the '50s, when the genre mutated from the oaters of the '30s and '40s to the revisionist films of the '60s and '70s. They were often being made by the same directors and crews, on the same sets and locations, with casts who moved from big to small screen to make a living. It's why a film like Budd Boetticher's Decision at Sundown (1957) has been described as looking like an episode of Gunsmoke, which hit the air two years previous and would run for two decades. Boetticher himself directed several episodes of Maverick for ABC that year and after finishing what would later be called his "Ranown Cycle" of westerns (of which Decision at Sundown was the third) would ...
On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town we have a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones, some wild, some mellow, after which we take tea with lyricist Irving Caesar, and enjoy Frank Sinatra getting his Irish up. Plus lepers and yellow-striped trousers...
If you missed this week's edition of Steyn's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay...
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the planet...
Steyn surveys the various regime changes in Canada and Syria...
On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town we mark the sesquicentennial of a great composer, Maurice Ravel - plus "lounge soul" via South Africa, a big belter from the NYPD, and Sinatra goes country. ..
The wheels of justice grind on in London and Washington...
A Nigerian naysayer on Trump and Steyn's bestseller...
After President Trump's suggestion that the United States should buy Greenland, Mark reads the greatest of all poems on the subject...
Welcome to Part Two of The Girl on the Boat, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and our second foray into the oeuvre of P G Wodehouse - as well as, we hope, a respite from the woes of the world, if only for twenty minutes before you lower your lamp.. Thank you for your initial reaction to this serialisation. Fraser Sutherland, an East Anglia member of The Mark Steyn Club, writes: It's not often I'm laughing for ten minutes straight at four in the morning to boot but the Tour-De-Force of Mrs. Hignett's exasperated plosives in her 'interview' ( I just love these post-Great War usages in their now nearly unfamiliar meanings, 'make love' being another!) with Bream Mortimer did the trick. As read by Mark Steyn, that was damn ...
Welcome to the sixty-ninth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time...
Live by Falsifying Evidence, Die by Falsifying Evidence...
In a stunning but not unexpected ruling today, Judge Irving of the DC Superior Court has reduced the unconstitutional punitive damages jury award against Mark from one million dollars to a mere $5,000...
Welcome to the concluding episode of our wintry Tale for Our Time - Jack London's To Build a Fire
The first part of a Jack London tale of exceptionally frosty fiction...
Welcome to the conclusion of our winter Tale for Our Time: Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson...
In tonight's penultimate episode of Lord of the World, the volor fleets of the world's powers prepare to embark for the final showdown...
Welcome to Part Five of our brand new Tale for Our Time: Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson, set in the early twenty-first century as seen from 1907...
Part Four of our latest audio diversion. Lord of the World is a work of speculative fiction from 1907 about the western world in the early twenty-first century - and Mr Benson got an awful lot of things right...
Welcome to the third installment of our brand new Tale for Our Time, a most far-sighted novel, written by Robert Hugh Benson and published in 1907...
Welcome to Part Two of Lord of the World, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and a favourite of at least two popes...
Welcome to the sixty-eighth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our first foray into the work of Robert Hugh Benson...
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...