Beyond The Mark Steyn Show:
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Steyn's Song of the Week
Lilac Wine
If you missed today's Song of the Week on Serenade Radio, here's a chance to hear it in a SteynOnline premiere broadcast. Mark explores an eerie revue number by a one-hit songwriter that somehow managed to become a favourite of four generations of female vocalists from Eartha Kitt to Miley Cyrus. Joining Steyn to discuss the song is the multitalented Mike Batt, who aside from all his work with the Wombles, Art Garfunkel et al also managed to produce the biggest-selling version of the number - with an orchestral ornamentation that has since become part of the song. Click above to listen. ~Thank you for your kind responses to this series. Of last week's presentation of "The Way You Look Tonight", Jackie, a Pennsylvania member of The Mark ...
Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: October 6-12
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark...
Rick's Flicks
No Fair Play: Jean Renoir and The Rules of the Game
Rick McGinnis on Renoir's masterpiece...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
The Approaching Whirlwind
Steyn takes your questions on the hurricanes and much more...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday October 9th
Steyn fields questions from listeners around the planet...
Politics & Current Affairs
Kamala's Belt & No Road Initiative
A hurricane? Says FEMA: Hey, what's the rush?
One Year Ago
An Act of War, One Year On
One year after a catastrophic Israeli "intelligence failure", and a grim day of Hamas atrocities...
Topical Take
Droning Clichés in a Burning Theatre
The line that makes Steyn want to burn down the theatre himself...
Politics & Current Affairs
The "Far Right" Inches Nearer
A curious evolution in European "democracy"...
Politics & Current Affairs
"Underwater" in North Carolina ...and Michigan
How many American states have to be underwater before it makes the news?
On the Town
Danke schön, Caterina
Mark remembers the multi-talented Caterina Valente, and passes on one of the greatest anecdotes he has ever been told...
The Mark Steyn Show
The Politicization of American Justice
A rare stage appearance by Steyn, as he returns to America's diseased and depraved capital city for address a Hillsdale College audience on Post-Constitution Day...
Politics & Current Affairs
Democracy Dies In ...Secret Service Headquarters
In America's one-party state the Leader of the Opposition is now the prisoner of his "security detail"...
Politics & Current Affairs
Identity and Evasion
The inability to speak the truth about nationhood...
Politics & Current Affairs
The Mounting Toll
Steyn on the continuing insult and injury to the vaccine victims...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Vesti la giubba/Mattinata
From Leoncavallo to Frank Sinatra Jr: An operatic aria that inspired a whole sub-genre of pop songs...
Politics & Current Affairs
Drifting to Armageddon
The gradual escalation of a one-sided proxy war...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Avalon with Carol Welsman and Russell Malone
Mark remembers a dear friend of the Steyn Show musical family, the guitarist Russell Malone...
The Mark Steyn Show
RFK Jr Endorses Trump
On the day a Kennedy breaks with his party, Mark's full-length interview with RFK Jr...
Politics & Current Affairs
As Steyn Goes, So Goes the Deep State?
Is the CIA getting its plot twists from The Prisoner of Windsor?
On the Town
Fresh!
On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town, we have hit songs with non-singing parts - plus pigtails, freckles, Cypriots, and eminent composers from Cole Porter to George Michael. Also: Frank Sinatra says his prayers. To listen to the programme, simply click here and log-in. Last week's show attracted a lot of comment. Linda, a Kansas member of The Mark Steyn Club, says: I absolutely loved today's On the Town ~ so entertaining and informative. The music made me smile, and the bits and bobs, like the Bardot piece, were delightful. Thanks again, Mark, for the joy of this program and your sharing your vast knowledge of the music world. Nancy writes: Every Saturday I wonder how Mark can top each musical offering and then he pulls off a ...
A Clubman's Notes
Nonplussed and Terrified
Welcome back to our latest Tale for Our Time. Listeners seemed to enjoy Part One of our story, so herewith the concluding episode. The Unparalleled Invasion was written by Jack London in 1910, and, although off on some of the specifics, was remarkably prescient on the big picture. Tonight, following the awakening of China and its advance around the world, the western powers decide to - oh, go on, take a wild guess - that's right, call a conference: China was appealed to and threatened by the United Powers, and that was all the Convention of Philadelphia came to; and the Convention and the Powers were laughed at by China. Li Tang Fwung, the power behind the Dragon Throne, deigned to reply. "What does China care for the comity of nations?" ...
A Clubman's Notes
The Rise of China
Programming note: Join Steyn tomorrow, Saturday, for a another edition of his Serenade Radio show, On the Town. This week's broadcast features Number One records, French and Nigerian songwriters, dictaphones, and a bigtime rocker's favourite cover version. The fun starts at 5pm British Summer Time - which is 6pm in Western Europe/12 midday North American Eastern. You can listen from almost anywhere on the planet by clicking the button at top right here. ~Welcome to the sixty-sixth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our seventh venture into the work of Jack London, author of our popular serialisation Burning Daylight and of one of the world's greatest short stories, To Build a Fire. The Unparalleled Invasion is another ...
Steyn's Song of the Week
The Way You Look Tonight
Mark tells the story of one of the greatest songs of all...
On the Town
Here's to You, Glenda!
Mark presents sixty minutes of Number One records, songs from France and Nigeria, a bevy of ladies, a number for dictaphone, a very marmitey song, and a memorable ride over the 59th Street Bridge...
A Clubman's Notes
Never Before Seen on the Soil of England
The concluding episode of Mark's serialisation of G K Chesterton's The Flying Inn...
A Clubman's Notes
The Stink of Polygamy
In the penultimate episode of The Flying Inn, the Islamic character of Ivywood House is becoming more pronounced...
A Clubman's Notes
England on the March!
Part Twenty-Five of our summer audio adventure The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton...
A Clubman's Notes
One for the Rolling English Road
Part Twenty-Three of The Flying Inn, which includes G K Chesterton's best-known poem...
A Clubman's Notes
A Trip Up to London
Part Eighteen of G K Chesterton's The Flying Inn, set in an England where the elites make common cause with Islam to stick it to the masses...
A Clubman's Notes
Pub with no Cheer
Episode Fourteen of Steyn's latest audio adventure, The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton...
A Clubman's Notes
Fungi and Games
Episode Twelve of The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton: Islam meets militant vegetarianism...
A Clubman's Notes
Philanthropy as Religious Persecution
Part Eleven of our nightly audio adventure, The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton...
A Clubman's Notes
Progressive Potentates and Yellow Dogs
Episode Ten of The Flying Inn, in which G K Chesterton contemplates an England in which the elites make common cause with Islam...
A Clubman's Notes
Gorlumme, Allah!
Episode Eight of The Flying Inn, written in 1914 but extraordinarily prescient in its vision of an alliance between the elites and Islam...
A Clubman's Notes
The Promise of the Orb
Part Seven of our latest Tale for Our Time: The Flying Inn, G K Chesterton's 1914 novel set in an England where the elites have made common cause with Islam...
A Clubman's Notes
A Great Many Things...
Part Five of a unique and prescient adventure set in an England where the elites have made common cause with Islam: The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton...
A Clubman's Notes
Last Shout at the Old Ship
Part Four of The Flying Inn - G K Chesterton's 1914 caper set in an England in which the elites make common cause with Islam. Imagine that!
A Clubman's Notes
With Fez and Frock Coat
The third installment of our brand new Tale for Our Time, written by G K Chesterton in 1914 and contemplating an England in which the elites make common cause with Islam...
A Clubman's Notes
"The Prophet of Mecca is Reaping His Harvest..."
Part Two of The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton, set in an England in which the elites decide to make common cause with Islam. Imagine that!
A Clubman's Notes
Islam on the Beach
Welcome to the sixty-fifth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our second venture into G K Chesterton...
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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