The Culling of Words
Programming note: In an hour or so, I'll be joining Tucker Carlson live across America. That's at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. Hope you'll tune in. In consequence, the weekend edition of The Mark Steyn Show will be postponed until tomorrow morning. Meanwhile, welcome to Part Six of our latest audio entertainment - a bit of escapism all about a society where the citizen is observed twenty-four hours a day for signs of thoughtcrime. So nothing to do with our world then. Instead, it's Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. George Pazin, a First Month Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club from Pennsylvania, writes of last night's episode: Now this episode was both prescient (no matter how you pronounce it) and terrifying: I felt like ... |
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On Wednesday, after a lively three hours on radio and the latest episode of our Orwellian audio adaptation, Mark joined Tucker Carlson to discuss Nancy Pelosi's "most diverse impeachment team in American history". Click below to watch: You can see the full hour of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" here. For those who prefer Mark in non-visual formats, he'll be back this evening with Episode Five of our latest Tale for Our Time - George Orwell's ever timelier Nineteen Eighty-Four. And just ahead of that Laura's Links will round up the Internet for you. Tales for Our Time is made with the support of members of The Mark Steyn Club. You can find more details about our Club here - and we also have a gift membership. ... Steyn on the AirLather, Rinse and Re-'peach
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Welcome to Part Five of our current Tale for Our Time: George Orwell's classic portrait of a society obsessed by thoughtcrime and wrongthink - Nineteen Eighty-Four. Lynn Foster, a First Day Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club from Ontario, writes: I am onto Part Three tonight but the first two episodes have terrified me...am I the only one who sees we are now living this...!!!...I feel like I am losing my mind as this story unfolds like today's headlines... We have allowed 1984 to be 2021...God Save Us All. Indeed, Lynn. And it turns out that a panopticon state micro-policing every individual's most piffling aside is incredibly popular, at least with the celebs and the media and the artists and our other societal "influencers". In ... A Clubman's NotesReality Control
Just ahead of tonight's appearance with Tucker on the telly, here we go with Part Four of George Orwell's ever timelier tale of the panopticon state: Nineteen Eighty-Four. Thank you for your kind comments about this latest audio serialization. Peter, a First Week Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club from the English Home Counties, writes: A thank you for this superb reading: it is worthy of such a classic novel. Those interested might read Evelyn Waugh's letter to Orwell. It is appreciative and - of course - insightful. Waugh points out the lack of any religious sentiment which makes 1984 a permanent hell. Religion is there to release us - for Waugh, of course, it was (Roman Catholic) Christianity. Without the soul the Party wins forever ... A Clubman's NotesWill the Kids Rat You Out?
Welcome to the latest in our series of audio adventures, Tales for Our Time: This month's pick is George Orwell's ever more timely tale Nineteen Eighty-Four. Thank you for your kind words about our opening episodes. Aly, a California member of The Mark Steyn Club, writes: "I didn't want it to end so I listened to it again! Both riveting and horrifying, the parallels with current events are many. I'd read it in high school but at the time it wasn't viewed as a cautionary tale as it seemed impossible and unthinkable that such a thing could ever occur in America. Mark, thanks for choosing this modern classic..." A Clubman's NotesThe All-Purpose Enemy
Welcome to Part Two of Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time A Clubman's NotesThe Thirteenth Hour
Welcome along to our forty-fifth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time. As I mention in my introduction, this one has been requested on and off over the years, and I resisted. But cometh the hour, cometh the dystopian novel... On the TownDon Black: The Sanest Guy in the Room part two
Welcome to the second part of my conversation with Don Black about his bestselling memoir The Sanest Guy in the Room. In Part Two we hear Don's songs as recorded by everyone from Matt Monro and Shirley Bassey to Queen and Eminem... On the TownDon Black: The Sanest Guy in the Room
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Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda: The Prisoner of Windsor... |
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