As many of you know, Brian Savin, my friend and colleague and the producer of all our Serenade Radio Songs of the Week, died a week-and-a-half ago. We marked his passing with one of our very first shows together, from forty years back. As a companion piece, here is a reprise of one of our more recent collaborations. For those in the northern hemisphere, fall nips the air, and for some of us the autumnal melancholy is a little more particular this season. Here is a song that drifts like a leaf in an October wind from French poem to Hungarian tune to American lyric. This is the story of a classic song from Yves Montand to Ian Fleming, with performances by an array of stars from Cora Vaucaire and Tino Rossi to Nat King Cole and Eva Cassidy. ...
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark...
Rick McGinnis on Stephen Frears' film from last year, The Lost King...
Andrew Lawton on the meltdown at GB News, the Canadian House of Commons' Nazi ovation, and much more...
Andrew Lawton answers questions from Steyn Club members around the world...
Steyn on a grisly pontiff, an accessible king, a vax-clobbered celeb and more...
Mark remembers the late Brian Savin with one of their first collaborations, from back in the 1980s...
On the bike paths of America, your future is showing up...
Lola Aviva and Tal Bachman celebrate the centenary of Hank Williams...
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...
Steyn's two lawsuits against the UK state censor, and how GB News has been undone by its cowardice...
Steyn files his second suit against the UK state censor Ofcom...
Welcome to the final instalment of our latest Tale for Our Time - Steyn's summer diversion on a theme of H G Wells...
The penultimate episode of Steyn's summer diversion on a theme of H G Wells...
Part Fifteen of our summer diversion - Steyn's variation on a theme of H G Wells...
Part Fourteen of Steyn's summer diversion on a theme of H G Wells...
Episode Twelve of Out of Time, Steyn's variation on a theme of H G Wells...
Part Eleven of Steyn's nightly audio adventure...
Episode Ten of our summer entertainment - Steyn's variation on a theme from H G Wells...
Episode Nine of Steyn's variation on H G Wells, in which the Eloi and the Morlocks show up 800,000 years ahead of schedule...
Episode Eight of our current Tale for Our Time - Steyn's Out of Time...
Part Seven of Steyn's variation on H G Wells, with Eloi and Morlocks relocated to the twenty-first century...
Part Six of our latest nightly entertainment - Out of Time, Mark's variation on a theme of H G Wells...
Part Five of our current Tale for Our Time: Mark's variation on a theme of H G Wells...
Part Four of our brand new Tale for Our Time, Steyn's variation on a theme of H G Wells...
Welcome to Episode Three of our summer diversion, Out of Time - Steyn's variation on a theme of H G Wells...
Part Two of our summer diversion, Steyn's variation on a theme of H G Wells...
Tales for Our Time returns with a Steyn take on an H G Wells theme...