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Welcome to the third installment of our brand new Tale for Our Time, a most far-sighted novel, written by Robert Hugh Benson and published in 1907. You can enjoy Lord of the World episode by episode, night by night, twenty minutes before you lower your lamp. Or, alternatively, do feel free to binge-listen: you can find the earlier installments here. As Steve, a Manhattan member of The Mark Steyn Club, enthuses: I have never read this book, and Mark's reading is brilliant. Truly a Tale for Our Time. I guess some ambiguity is sensible when giving a 'history' of the next 100 years. I took the reference to '6%' as what you—the one not working for the government—got to keep, not what you had to pay. Not necessarily. It was the Great War that ...
Welcome to Part Two of Lord of the World, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and our first venture into the work of Robert Hugh Benson, a favourite of at least two popes...
Welcome to the sixty-eighth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our first foray into the work of Robert Hugh Benson. Lord of the World is a far-sighted novel of 1907 looking ahead to the world of the early twenty-first century. Which is to say, right now...
Mark celebrates John Barry, 007's composer and the man who invented "spy music"...
After President Trump's suggestion that the United States should buy Greenland, Mark reads the greatest of all poems on the subject...
On this week's edition of Mark Steyn on the Town Mark celebrates a Broadway legend, an Italian composer and some Caribbean limbo. Plus: when Frank met Elvis!
A SteynOnline tradition: our annual presentation of ancient scripture and brand new versions of favourite carols, from various members of the Steyn Show musical family...
Welcome to the sixty-seventh audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and the first of this year's Yuletide capers - Mystery in White, a "Christmas crime story" from 1937 by Jefferson Farjeon, scion of an eminent family, as Mark notes in his introduction, that has given us, among other delights, the definitive Rip van Winkle, a ditty about the Royal Family, and a global pop hit. Part One.
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...