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Lee Miller – model, muse, photographer, war correspondent – was hardly unknown, so the makers of Lee, a newly released biopic about her, had an opportunity to sketch in the vast amount of empty space around this thumbnail of Miller, her life and her work. They had the full cooperation of her son and biographer and keeper of her legacy, Antony Penrose, and the star power of Kate Winslet, who produced the film and plays Miller. This gives the picture, directed by cinematographer Ellen Kuras, a provenance and authority that few biopics can match. Even if you didn't know anything about Lee Miller it's hard not to root for the film – the sort of (relatively) small budget, serious, literary and historical picture that once filled multiplexes and ...
Programming note: Please join me later today, Friday, for a brand new audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time. ~If you haven't yet heard our 2020 Tale The Marching Morons, do give it a listen because the morons are stepping up the pace. Thus, Tim Walz, friend of school shooters and grade-school bicyclist of Tiananmen Square, has unilaterally repealed the First Amendment: VANCE: Kamala Harris wants to use the power of government and big tech to silence people from speaking their minds. That is a threat to democracy that will long outlive this present political moment. I would like Democrats and Republicans to both reject censorship. Let's persuade one another. Let's argue about ideas, and then let's come together afterwards. WALZ: ...
Steyn takes your questions on the debate and much more...
Steyn fields questions on the veep debate and other topics from listeners around the planet...
A curious evolution in European "democracy"...
How many American states have to be underwater before it makes the news?
Mark on an unforgettable song from an unshutuppable writer...
Mark remembers the multi-talented Caterina Valente, and passes on one of the greatest anecdotes he has ever been told...
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...
In America's one-party state the Leader of the Opposition is now the prisoner of his "security detail"...
The inability to speak the truth about nationhood...
Steyn on the continuing insult and injury to the vaccine victims...
From Leoncavallo to Frank Sinatra Jr: An operatic aria that inspired a whole sub-genre of pop songs...
The gradual escalation of a one-sided proxy war...
Mark remembers a dear friend of the Steyn Show musical family, the guitarist Russell Malone...
On the day a Kennedy breaks with his party, Mark's full-length interview with RFK Jr...
The US Department of Justice has the last laugh...
Revisiting Arnold Toynbee and civilisational suicide...
Steyn on child slaughter in England, and its fiery aftermath...
Is the CIA getting its plot twists from 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...
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?" ...
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 ...
The concluding episode of Mark's serialisation of G K Chesterton's The Flying Inn...
In the penultimate episode of The Flying Inn, the Islamic character of Ivywood House is becoming more pronounced...
Part Twenty-Five of our summer audio adventure The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton...
Part Twenty-Three of The Flying Inn, which includes G K Chesterton's best-known poem...
Part Twenty-Two of G K Chesterton's tale of an England in which the elites make common cause with Islam...
In Part Twenty-One of The Flying Inn, we meet the genius behind the not-so-model village of Peaceways...
Episode Nineteen of G K Chesterton's novel of 1914: The Flying Inn...
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...
Episode Sixteen of our late summer caper by G K Chesterton, The Flying Inn - a novel published in 1914 in which the elites make common cause with Islam and go to war against the English village pub...
Episode Fourteen of Steyn's latest audio adventure, The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton...
Episode Twelve of The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton: Islam meets militant vegetarianism...
Part Eleven of our nightly audio adventure, The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton...
Episode Ten of The Flying Inn, in which G K Chesterton contemplates an England in which the elites make common cause with Islam...
Episode Eight of The Flying Inn, written in 1914 but extraordinarily prescient in its vision of an alliance between the elites and Islam...
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...
Part Six of The Flying Inn by G K Chesterton, set in an England in which the elites have made common cause with Islam...
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...
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!
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...
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!
Welcome to the sixty-fifth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our second venture into G K Chesterton...