The Ages of Woman
Programming note: If you missed today's audio edition of Steyn's Song of the Week on Serenade Radio in the UK, do treat yourself and catch the rerun. It airs Monday morn at 5.30am London time - that's 9.30pm Sunday on the US and Canadian West Coast, so a kind of late-night vibe to it, but it's early Monday afternoon in Oz, so a mellow post-prandial feel to it. Whichever you prefer, we hope you'll tune in. You can listen from anywhere on the planet right here. On the subject of rhymed words, albeit without accompanying music, welcome to a brand new entry to our Mark Steyn Club anthology of video poetry. Because, as I always say, video poetry is where the big bucks are. Today's poem is Phyllis's Age by Matthew Prior, which is rather a laugh ... |
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Steyn's Song of the WeekQue Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be Will Be)
The great songwriting team of Livingston & Evans came to an end twenty years ago - October 17th 2001 - with the death of Jay Livingston. His younger brother, Alan Livingston, co-wrote a favorite song of mine (if not of Gavin McInnes), but, other than that, I would have to account Jay the better songsmith. Everyone knows at least one Livingston & Evans song, because, starting next month, you're going to be hearing "Silver Bells" at the mall and at the diner in high rotation until Christmas Day. But that's a tad premature, so here's an alternative from the team: When I was just a little girl, I asked my mother, 'What will I be? Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?' Here's what she said to me: Que Sera Sera Whatever will be will be The future's ... Mark's Week in ReviewA Se'nnight of Steyn, October 11-17
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Is Sergio Leone's spaghetti western the greatest movie ever made? The Mark Steyn ShowTragic Event of No Broader Application
Mark discusses the murder of UK MP Sir David Amess by a "British national" and finds himself recalling a sharp line from Kipling. There's a brand new edition of The Hundred Years Ago, and some thoughts on two significant if little remarked-upon areas of Chinese dominance in Mark's Mailbox and Last Call - plus a rare reprise from the music department of Her Majesty's Secret Service... The Bachman BeatTal Bachman: We Have Met the Enemy, part XXIV
Tal Bachman wonders if the Enlightenment might have gotten it wrong as he continues his deep dive into Wokism and the modern left... Clubland Q&AIt's Only Rock'n'Roll, But...
Mark answers questions from Steyn Club members around the planet on everything from the total collapse of western civilization to the auto-cancelation of "Brown Sugar" (plus the awfulness of the new Bond film)... Clubland Q&ALive Around the Planet: Thursday October 14th
Mark answers questions from Steyn Club members around the world Topical TakeLiving Large
The trillion-dollar coin rings a vague bell Laura's LinksBlaming the Weather
Laura Rosen Cohen on the revenge of the freedom-loving pilots, gender-neutral Lego, and a looming tide of common sense... Steyn on CultureThe Stampede to Stupid
Societal self-moronization continues in an America running on fumes... The Mark Steyn ShowHappy Holidays!
A hybrid Columbus Day/Canadian Thanksgiving edition Steyn's Song of the WeekThey All Laughed
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Steyn remembers Lars Vilks, a courageous man let down by the cowardice of his fellow artists Politics & Current AffairsThe Long Term's Express Check-In
Del Rio is America's future, and sooner than you think Seasons of SteynThe Years We Wasted
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If you're Afghan, Afghanistan is about Afghanistan; if you're Russian or Chinese or Iranian or European, Afghanistan is about America... The War on Free SpeechYou're Once, Twice, Three Times a Loser...
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A Clubman's NotesA House in the Country
Just ahead of our ongoing Tale for Our Time, if you're one of that brave band who prefer me in visual formats, do check out today's Sunday Poem. Garth, a British Columbia member of The Mark Steyn Club, writes: Thoroughly enjoyed 'Phyllis's Age' (not to mention your reading thereof). It brought to mind something I read earlier about the wrinkle-revealing effect of electric light on the ladies of the candle-lit Victorian era. No kindness to be found in the harsh glare of that stark glare. I think, on reflection, I prefer the candle effect. Well, we're very much in candle-lit territory for Northanger Abbey, Garth, even though our ladies are somewhat younger than poor Phyllis. I thank listeners for all your kind words on this latest Tale. ... A Clubman's NotesSpeaking Well Enough to Be Unintelligible
Steyn reads Part Fourteen of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey A Clubman's NotesA Famous Good Thing and No Bad Notion
Welcome to the thirteenth episode of Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's first completed novel, and a glimpse of lost courtship rituals in our age of non-binary friends with benefits... A Clubman's NotesCoach Class
Episode Twelve of Jane Austen's tale of an impressionable young lady and the Gothic novels that exercise such a grip on her imagination... A Clubman's NotesHume Thoughts from a Broad
In tonight's episode of Northanger Abbey, Catherine and her new friends discourse on the difference between history books and novels... A Clubman's NotesA Blazey Afternoon
Episode Ten of our serialization of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey A Clubman's Notes(Not) At Home
In tonight's episode of Northanger Abbey, Catherine finds herself snubbed in Milsom Street... A Clubman's NotesA Blaize of Excitement
In today's episode of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey Catherine's Gothic imagination is excited by the prospect of a castle... A Clubman's NotesThe Texture of Muslin
Part Seven of Northanger Abbey, the first novel Jane Austen ever completed A Clubman's NotesDread, Bath and Beyond
Welcome along to the fiftieth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time. When we ballyhooed it yesterday, South Carolina Steyn Clubber Larry Durham could barely contain himself: 'A new Tale for Our Time! It's like an early Christmas present!' We certainly hope so, Larry... The Hundred Years Ago ShowThe Party She Didn't Come Home From
Steyn revisits the news, the soundbites and the music of September 1921 The Mark Steyn Weekend ShowThe Remnants of an Army
Mark reads his own translation of Theodor Fontane's poem on an all too pertinent theme A Clubman's NotesThe Elphbergs - with a Word on the Rassendylls
Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda: The Prisoner of Windsor... |
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