Beyond The Mark Steyn Show:
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Rick's Flicks
Traumatized in Tinseltown: Kirk Douglas in The Bad and the Beautiful
Vincente Minnelli's 1952 movie melodrama The Bad and the Beautiful opens with perhaps the most iconic crane shot ever shown on film. A phone rings on a Hollywood soundstage with a message for the director, Fred Amiel (Barry Sullivan), who is busy rehearsing a shot. Cut to Amiel behind a camera perched on the end of an iconic piece of Hollywood technology. The camera crane was reputedly invented by no less than D.W. Griffith for his 1916 epic Intolerance, and allowed films to leave the ground and swoop, spin and fly. Massive machines made of iron, steel and aluminum, they required huge crews to assemble, move and maintain safely for the cameraman and assistants perched on the business end, in addition to the motion picture cameras that were ...
On the Town
You Can Go as Far as You Like with Me!
On this week's episode we find ourselves in between Halloween and Bonfire Night, Daylight Savings Time and Greenwich Mean Time. Plus a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones down the decades, and a Pakistani postscript...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
A Crown Fit for a Leader
In case you missed Steyn's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday October 29th
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members live around the planet...
Topical Take
Build Back Better
In Obama's world, businessmen build nothing, whereas government are the hardest hard-hats on the planet...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Time on My Hands
Mark and Larry Adler on an enduring song from an almighty flop...
On the Town
Strictly USA! (plus Slovenia)
On this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we mark the spectacular last act of Al Jolson's long career, including a word from his godson and our first venture into the world of suspended animation. Plus our Sinatra Sextet...
Politics & Current Affairs
The Masters' Plan
To which polling station do you go to vote out Larry Ellison or Tony Blair?
Politics & Current Affairs
Un Tour d'Horizon
Because they made the mistake of sabotaging his escalator and then his prompter, the President of the United States opened up a supersized can of geopolitical whup-ass on the UN General Assembly this week...
The Mark Steyn Show
Enablers of Evil
Today's episode was filmed live on the Mark Steyn Iberian Cruise with three of our special guests: Sammy Woodhouse, Samantha Smith and Allison Pearson...
A Clubman's Notes
The Girl on the Train
Programming note: Tomorrow, Saturday, Mark will be back for his weekend music show Mark Steyn on the Town. It airs at 5pm Greenwich Mean Time - which is 6pm in Western Europe and - for this weekend only - an hour later than usual in North America: 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. You can listen from almost anywhere on the planet by clicking the button at top right here. On Sunday, he will have a different kind of audio diversion, with Part Nine of the twentieth-anniversary serialisation of his highly prescient bestseller, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. Meanwhile, 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 ...
A Clubman's Notes
Moral Health
Welcome to Part Eight in Mark's first ever self-narration of this highly prescient tome...
A Clubman's Notes
Men Are from Venus
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.
A Clubman's Notes
Les feuilles mortes
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...
A Clubman's Notes
Demography vs Delusion
Welcome to Part Five in our new audio adaptation of America Alone. In this week's episode, we start by surveying the demographic scene worldwide...
A Clubman's Notes
The Seventh Age
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...
A Clubman's Notes
The Coming of Age
Welcome to Part Three of Mark's boffo bestseller on demography and its discontents...
A Clubman's Notes
An End to the Old Ennui
Welcome to Part Two of Mark's new audio serialisation of his bestseller America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It...
A Clubman's Notes
The End of the World, Twenty Years On
Part One of Mark's audio adaptation of his demographic blockbuster...
Steyn's Song of the Week
I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)
Mark celebrates a quintessentially American song, and wishes he could find a five-and-ten-cent store to find a million-dollar baby in...
On the Town
Tigers at Night
Mark celebrates the centennial of a great songwriter - Herbert Kretzmer, best known to millions of theatregoers around the world as the lyricist of Les Misérables...
Steyn's Song of the Week
There's A Kind of Hush (All Over the World) with Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits
A live Song of the Week with the irrepressible Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits and a great pop song by Les Reed and Geoff Stephens...
A Clubman's Notes
An Unwanted Intrusion at Victoria
Welcome to the conclusion of our seventy-third Tale for Our Time: The Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle...
A Clubman's Notes
The Napoleon of Crime
Welcome to the seventy-third audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time...
Tales for Our Time
The Prisoner of Windsor
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...
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