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Judith Durham died on Friday aged 79, at the Alfred Hospital in her home town of Melbourne. Hers is high up on a very short list of voices I would want to sing me into the hereafter, and I know that many other SteynOnline readers feel the same way about her. She kept almost all of that beautiful voice right to the end. Here she is in the Nineties, on a Seekers reunion tour, with a song that, notwithstanding its fairly appalling author, always touches me: The Seekers were the biggest pop group ever to come out of the Lucky Country. They had a lot of hits around the world, but, when I was in Victoria eight years ago, this was the one that provided the title for the then new biotuner about them that was enjoying its world premiere at Her ...
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The Hundred Years Ago Show
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 begins with one of the most devastating typhoons in history, and Fascists and Socialists battling on the streets of Italian cities. Drama comes to the New York airwaves, and at the pictures Rudolph Valentino plays a Spanish bullfighter. There's an historic first for baseball, and ...
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Mark's Week in Review
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark...
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Rick's Flicks
Rick McGinnis on Howard Hawks' often-overlooked drama-romance-comedy-fantasy Only Angels Have Wings, starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur...
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Guest host Andrew Lawton takes questions from Mark Steyn Club members on Pelosi and Taiwan, Trudeau and totalitarianism, Biden's long Covid, and more...
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Clubland Q&A
SteynOnline's Canadian correspondent Andrew Lawton takes the reins for a live Clubland Q&A Friday at 3pm ET...
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The Mark Steyn Show
Laura Perrins and Sue Cook on leadership and lockdown, plus Mark and Leanne Tomlin, bereaved by AstraZeneca and mocked in their grief by Twitter, and Gary Osborne on songs, ads and ukes...
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Laura's Links
Laura Rosen Cohen on the myth of "safe and effective," the importance of choosing life, and how wokism is the new Maoism...
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The Mark Steyn Show
A shocking exclusive from a town that coddles Pakistani rape-gangs - plus Leilani Dowding, Jamie Jenkins and Kathy Gyngell on Net Zero, excess mortality and The Big Shut-Up...
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The Mark Steyn Show
Toby Young on the next prime minister; Eva Vlaardingerbroek on digital identity; Natalie Winters on the most widespread side-effect of the vaccines; and Alexandra Marshall on China...
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Laurence Fox on Britain's thought police, Eva Vlaardingerbroek on shifts in the Covid narrative, and Kelvin MacKenzie on open borders...
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Steyn on TV
A brand new week of The Mark Steyn Show begins tonight on GB News...
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The Mark Steyn Show
A special edition devoted to a topic Mark has focused on particularly in the last six months - the devastating damage done around the world to millions of hitherto healthy persons by the Covid "vaccines"...
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The Mark Steyn Weekend Show
Paul Sorvino died on Monday at the age of 83. He was known above all for Goodfellas - to the point where New York cops would call out "Paulie!" if they spotted him on the other side of the street, and he was late traveling down from Montreal for The Mark Steyn Show because the US border guards at Highgate, Vermont insisted on all getting photographs with him. He did eventually reach our studios, however, and we had an interesting conversation with Paul and his wife Dee Dee Benkie. We talked a little about acting, but more about all the other things he did - from singing to sculpting. He was a man with a tremendous appetite for life, and each of his enthusiasms informed the other. Perhaps that's why, as he mentioned at dinner afterwards, he ...
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The Hundred Years Ago Show
July 1922 comes to a close with intensifying battles in the Irish civil war, and the German mark sinking to new lows on the currency markets...
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Steyn's Song of the Week
Two unforgettable songs from a forgotten film...
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The Mark Steyn Weekend Show
Welcome to the first of this season's summer anthologies of poetry and music, including a terrible Ulster anniversary remembered in song...
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Steyn's Song of the Week
Mark is joined by Gary Osborne, Elton John's lyricist on such hits as "Blue Eyes", to remember songwriter Norman Newell...
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The Mark Steyn Weekend Show
The bicentennial of the death of one of the greatest of all romantic poets...
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Steyn's Song of the Week
The new hit singalong of The Mark Steyn Show
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A Clubman's Notes
Welcome along to the fifty-ninth in our series Tales for Our Time - and our first venture into the work of Anthony Trollope, although we're a long way from Barsetshire...
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A Clubman's Notes
Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda: The Prisoner of Windsor...
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The War on Free Speech
A third strike for vanity litigant Michael E Mann
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Mann vs Steyn
The Corner post that launched a lawsuit...
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