Happy Bastille Day to our many French readers and listeners. We observe the occasion with the annual fête nationale editions of both my weekend music show and our Song of the Week. Tonight, we shall have a kinda sorta Bastille Day postscript with Episode Four of our current Tale for Our Time - a trip to francophone Africa in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. ~We have been marking the first anniversary of the attempted assassination of the Republican presidential candidate. Judging from the reaction on social media, lefties regret only that the US Secret Service is too incompetent to pull off the eighty-sixing of Trump, while a not insignificant number of righties seem to believe it was just another spectacle for the rubes - with Trump ...

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For Bastille Day, France's fête nationale, something suitably Gallic for Mark's chanson de la semaine...

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Today is the first anniversary of the shooting of the Republican presidential candidate while on stage in Butler, Pennsylvania...

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Rick McGinnis on a Barbara Stanwyck classic...

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Mark counts down a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones down the decades and enjoys a sextet of Franco Sinatra, even if the French gets a bit iffy. Plus Zorba the Greek meets the washerwomen of Portugal...

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Tourism ads from Quebec and Afghanistan...

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Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...

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If you missed our latest edition of Steyn's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay.

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Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the planet...

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The twentieth anniversary of the July 7th London Tube bombings...

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If you're swimming in Germany, beware of predatory redhead hausfraus...

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Who owes one million dollars now?

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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...

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Here we go with Part Four of our brand new Tale for Our Time - my summertime serialisation of Joseph Conrad's classic of 1899, Heart of Darkness. We always get lots of compliments on our Tales, but we also have eagle-eared listeners alert for every minor solecism, and sometimes even before we get to the audio and are still on the accompanying graphic. Last night, a Georgia member of The Mark Steyn Club was ready to pounce: I was all primed to complain if the obviously French or Russian warship (the bizarre tumblehome and military masts give it away) in the illustration was supposed to be British or American in the text. But I was cheated out of the chance to be obnoxious and pedantic! Good work. Excellent attention to detail. We know our ...

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Welcome to the latest in our series of audio adventures, Tales for Our Time, and Part Three of my serialisation of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. We're always happy to hear from Mark Steyn Club members, and Thomas Carey, a First Day Founding Member, has been having a good time of late: What a great week to be a Mark Steyn Club member! Really enjoyed the Q&A this week, and Heart of Darkness for the new Tales of Our Time, and your comments on the anniversary of Butler. Great content, much to ponder from Epstein, to the Belgian Congo, to Secret Service buffoonery. Thank you Mark. My pleasure, Thomas. In tonight's episode, our protagonist sails for the Dark Continent and comes across the 1890s version of shock-and-awe: Once, I remember, ...

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Welcome to Part Two of Heart of Darkness, our summer audio adventure in Tales for Our Time. I thank you for all your kind words about this choice for our seventy-second yarn. John Wilson, a First Week Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club, particularly appreciated the exquisite timing: Oh, no way! I just listened to this book 3 days ago on Audible. Well, I'm definitely going to listen to Mark's version. In tonight's episode of Joseph Conrad's tale, our protagonist is in mainland Europe to prepare for his visit to Africa - because, in those days, one continent owned another continent, and the map was colour-coded to reflect their respective sovereigns: I gave my name, and looked about. Deal table in the middle, plain chairs all round the ...

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Programming note: Tomorrow, Saturday, please join me for a Bastille Day 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-second audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time. We are in our ninth season, and 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 Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the Modern Library's choice for the sixty-seventh ...

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An anthem for rebellious youth written by a guy born in the nineteenth century

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On this week's episode, we observe a most consequential anniversary, enjoy some protean French rock'n'roll and hear Sinatra on a hit he "unequivocally detests"...

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On this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we celebrate two very different songwriters, and some ring-a-ding-ding movie themes...

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Welcome to the seventy-first audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time...

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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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