Death on the Loch
Programming note: Today's audio edition of Steyn's Song of the Week airs on Serenade Radio at 5.30pm British Summer Time, which is 12.30pm North American Eastern or 9.30am for a West Coast Sunday brunch listen. Wherever you are on the planet, simply click the button at top right here. Details of all Mark's regularly scheduled TV and radio shows each week can be found on this page in the right-hand sidebar. Welcome to this week's Hundred Years Ago Show. August 1922 continues with dramatic developments in the Irish civil war, and revolvers in the Italian parliament. In New York a mobster makes the running board, and a record-breaking ball player ends his career in shame. Botulism comes to Scotland, and audiences learn, very vividly, that ... |
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Programming note: On Sunday, Mark will host the radio version of Steyn's Song of the Week on Serenade Radio at 5.30pm British Summer Time/12.30pm Eastern. You can listen from almost anywhere on earth by clicking in the top right-hand corner here. If you missed today's edition of our Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay. We went to air shortly after the stabbing of Sir Salman Rushdie in western New York, on which Mark had a few observations. Listeners were also understandably rattled by this week's events in America, and Conservative Inc's weak response. And Steyn found time to remember an actress and a singer. Update from Andrew Wylie: Rushdie's agent...said Friday evening that Rushdie was on a ventilator and could ... Steyn's Song of the WeekGeorgy Girl
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