Greetings one and all and welcome to this week's edition of Laura's Links. I'm glad that Yom Kippur is over – it was actually very meaningful and went by surprisingly fast for me this year and without the caffeine withdrawal headache I experienced during the last fast that I did (different holiday). Not surprisingly, like Israeli journalist Haviv Rettig Gur, I had a lot of Big Thoughts throughout the day on a bunch of different topics. There are several things that I want to work on in terms of improving myself this New Year. And when I say 'improving myself' I mean working on closer observance of some of the commandments ("mitzvot") that I believe will really make a difference for me, those closest to me and to circles beyond my own – and ...
Steyn fields questions from listeners around the planet...
The fourth anniversary of Hunter Biden's "Russian" laptop...
Strange developments in the court eunuchs' coverage of Kamala...
Rick McGinnis on Renoir's masterpiece...
Steyn takes your questions on the hurricanes and much more...
A hurricane? Says FEMA: Hey, what's the rush?
One year after a catastrophic Israeli "intelligence failure", and a grim day of Hamas atrocities...
The line that makes Steyn want to burn down the theatre himself...
A curious evolution in European "democracy"...
How many American states have to be underwater before it makes the news?
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...
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...
Is the CIA getting its plot twists from The Prisoner of Windsor?
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mark tells the story of one of the greatest songs of all...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...