Beyond The Mark Steyn Show:
Columns, poems, tales, music, movies and more from Mark and friends
Mark's Week in Review
A Se'nnight of Steyn: June 15-21
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked at SteynOnline...
Rick's Flicks
Defusing a Bomb: Michael Powell's The Small Back Room
The career of director Michael Powell was a discovery I made later in life, when I was around thirty and decided to check out a retrospective of his films at the local cinematheque. I became an instant convert and agree with Powell acolytes like Martin Scorsese that he's one of the greats, to be spoken of in the same sentence as Ford, Hitchcock, Hawks, Wilder, Welles and Kurosawa. For his part Powell was in love with the movies and regarded working as a director as something like a spiritual calling. "The craft is a mystery," he wrote in Million Dollar Movie, his second autobiography. "Nobody can explain it. Writers on film can list the qualities – supreme confidence, endless patience, excessive energy – but they can't explain how those ...
The Mark Steyn Show
Dan Wootton talks to Steyn
Programming note: Please join me tomorrow, Saturday, for another edition of my weekend music show, Mark Steyn on the Town at 5pm British Summer Time - which is 6pm in Western Europe and 12 noon North American Eastern. You can listen from almost anywhere on the planet by clicking the button at top right here. ~Happy birthday to our fabulous friend, the indomitable Sammy Woodhouse. I know all those Mark Steyn Cruisers who met her off the Iberian Peninsula a few weeks ago will wish her only the best on this great day: They say life begins at 40 — let's hope so! Happy birthday to me! 🎂 — Sammy Woodhouse (@officialsammyuk) June 20, 2025 I certainly hope the next forty years are better than so many of the first forty were. Sammy is a ...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Seems Like Old Times
If you missed today's edition of Steyn's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay. This week's show covered a range of topics from the apparently widening war to English grooming gangs to multi-trillion-dollar debt...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday June 18th
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the planet...
Politics & Current Affairs
Raze the Pentagon
There is nothing in the Pentagon's performance these last eighty years to suggest it is remotely capable of winning a war with Iran...
Politics & Current Affairs
More War
Lindsey Graham, member of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, is panting like Jeffrey Toobin on a Zoom call...
Mann vs Steyn
Mannsplaining
Steyn and Simberg respond to Mann's demand that he and his lying lawyers should not have to pay sanctions...
The Mark Steyn Show
Vax Veil
In today's segment Mark catches up with Steyn Show favourites Jules Serkin and Naomi Wolf. Jules, a BBC Radio presenter, fell victim to the AstraZeneca vaccine. Yet, even when one of their own suffered, members of her profession stayed silent. Naomi Wolf, at great personal cost, unveiled disturbing information re the effects of the vaccine...
The Mark Steyn Show
A Long Cosy Relationship
Steyn talks to Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer about Irish anti-Semitism...
The Mark Steyn Show
A New Trump and His Old Enemies
As part of The Mark Steyn Club's eighth-anniversary observances, welcome to the third brand new video edition of The Mark Steyn Show. Today's episode was filmed live on the Mark Steyn Iberian Cruise, and discusses the differences between Trump 45 and Trump 47...
The Mark Steyn Show
Offed by Ofcom
A GB News reunion on the latest Mark Steyn Show Dan Wootton, Laurence Fox and Naomi Wolf...
The Mark Steyn Show
Enablers of Evil
Today's episode was filmed live on the Mark Steyn Iberian Cruise with three of our special guests: Sammy Woodhouse, Samantha Smith and Allison Pearson...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Happy Birthday to You
There's really only one song with which we could celebrate The Mark Steyn Club's eighth anniversary...
Politics & Current Affairs
Eight Speech
Today is the eighth birthday of The Mark Steyn Club, launched on May 6th 2017. In honour of the occasion, the Supreme Court of Minnesota has decided to legalise women perambulating topless through the streets...
On the Town
Jinns, Rosières, and Prince Bob
One of the most popular features of Tales for Our Time has been the music Mark chooses to accompany each story. So here, after many requests, is a sampler of the accompanying melodies from some of our tales...
Steyn's Song of the Week
God Bless America
Mark tells the story of Irving Berlin's great American anthem...
On the Town
Non-Indian Summer
On this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we wish a happy birthday to a legendary British lyricist, mark the solstice with summer and winter songs from the northern and summer hemispheres, celebrate the perfect match of singer and songwriting team, and enjoy a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones down the decades. To listen to the programme, simply click here and log-in. ~Thank you for your kind comments about last week's edition. Suzy says: Every week I marvel at Mark Steyn's vast knowledge of nostalgic songs and his anecdotes of all the top composers, lyricists and singers he has personally known that he shares with us. (Not least how he finds the time to do it!) A wonderful insight into many popular songs from Serenade's playlist. ...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Soliloquy
Programming note: Mark will be back in audio on Friday with the latest entry to our series of audio adventures, Tales for Our Time. Happy Father's Day to you and yours. We have some Father's Day moments from The Mark Steyn Show here, and we close out the day with a song for those about to qualify for the category. I miss my dad more and more as the years go by. This Song for the Season is one he used to like singing - mostly the "My boy Bill" bit, because it all gets a little more complicated after that. It's more than a song, but a dramatic soliloquy on imminent fatherhood. This essay is adapted from my book A Song for the Season: I wonder what he'll think of meI guess he'll call meThe old manI guess he'll think I can lickEv'ry other ...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Happy Father's Day!
Happy Father's Day to all our listeners around the world. This special audio edition of The Mark Steyn Show presents a few Father's Day moments down the years from the various iterations of our show, featuring poems, songs and reminiscences on the theme, by everybody from Dame Vera Lynn to a neighbour of Mark's in New Hampshire. Click above to listen. The Mark Steyn Show is a special production of The Mark Steyn Club. If you prefer to read your radio shows, Steyn Club members can find the transcripts here. For those members interested in using their personal podcast players to listen to the Steyn Show or our series of audio adventures Tales for our Time, we have an RSS feed here (and instructions here). ...
On the Town
Too Plebeian
On this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we remember a fine songwriter, celebrate the centennial of a great American standard, and enjoy the windy Sinatra. To listen to the programme, simply click here and log-in. ~Thank you for your kind comments about last week's edition. From Fran, a First Weekend Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club who's just re-upped for a ninth year: This is an out of the park fantastic show, Mark. You're the best. I'm going to have a great and wonderful summer with months of sizzling heat listening to this over and over, even if the temps don't soar into the three digits. Michael Smith, a Maryland Steyn Clubber, says: Thank you Mark for this fine episode and a very happy birthday Nancy Sinatra! Lucky ...
A Clubman's Notes
Hard Knocks
Programming note: Tomorrow, Saturday, please join me for another edition of my Serenade Radio weekend music show, Mark Steyn on the Town. The fun starts at 5pm British Summer Time - which is 6pm in Western Europe and 12 noon North American Eastern. You can listen from almost anywhere on the planet by clicking the button at top right here. ~Ahead of that, welcome to the seventy-first audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time. As we begin our ninth season, we've built a spectacular archive that runs the gamut from A to Z ...well, not quite, but certainly A to W - Jane Austen to P G Wodehouse. The newest addition to our collection is a short story from 1948 written by Fredric Brown (whom I discuss in my introduction) and with a ...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Ain't Misbehavin'
Mark tells the story of a song that's a blast of pure joy, but emerged from an unlikely corner of history...
On the Town
Farandoles and Seguidillas
On this week's episode of Mark Steyn On the Town, we celebrate Georges Bizet and Nancy Sinatra. Plus: a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones, and a rare touch of reggae...
A Clubman's Notes
Belling the Cat
A rerun of a Tale for Our Time first aired almost a decade ago: Belling the Cat by Rudyard Kipling...
A Clubman's Notes
Police State
Welcome to the conclusion of our eighth-birthday Tale for Our Time: Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K Jerome...
A Clubman's Notes
The Veal in the View
Part Eighteen of Jerome K Jerome's comic romp Three Men on the Bummel, now hurtling - or digressing - towards its thrilling finale...
A Clubman's Notes
Rise and Shine
Part Four of Mark's serialisation of Jerome K Jerome's sequel to Three Men in a Boat - Three Men on the Bummel...
A Clubman's Notes
Kind of a Bummel
Welcome to the seventieth audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time...
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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