In lieu of Mark's regular Song of the Week, we have something a little special for you this weekend - a rare video appearance by Steyn, since the GB News heart attacks clobbered his health. As many of you know, some of Mark's happiest times in America have been spent on the Hillsdale College campus in Michigan, where he first spoke some two decades ago and where for some years he taught a writing class. Steyn recently returned to Hillsdale as part of their series on the American musical. Mark's brief was to talk not about the shows but about the songs they produced - the music and lyrics that went on to become the bedrock of the American standard songbook. He brought along a couple of friends - Tony-nominated Best Actress Marla Schaffel ...
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark...
Rick McGinnis on the biker movie...
Mark fields questions on many topics, from the woeful state of American education to the woeful state of the British police via the woeful state of the "Official Jews". All that plus a great conductor with some music for St George's Day and Anzac Day...
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the world...
Mark celebrates the centenary of Henry Mancini...
Our latest Tale for Our Time charges on: The Secret Adversary, Agatha Christie's first Tommy & Tuppence caper, set against the turbulent politics of the world after the Great War. Thank you for all your kind comments about this latest serialisation. Leo, a Mark Steyn Club member and my fellow Ontarian, says: So glad to hear you back at it with the Tales. The other half is especially excited about your choice of Dame Agatha, since she is a huge fan. You know, the kind with all the books, the anthologies, the videos, etc. We even took in The Mousetrap when visiting London pre Armageddon (covid). This site not only provides great insights and entertainment but also some comfort knowing there are others who are sane and sensible, and sharing ...
Episode Eight of our current Tale for Our Time: The Secret Adversary...
Part Seven of Steyn's latest Tale for Our Time: The Secret Adversary, with Agatha Christie venturing from country-house murders at St Mary Mead into the high stakes of post-Great War politics...
Part Six of our nightly audio entertainment - The Secret Adversary, an early Agatha Christie caper of Tommy & Tuppence attempting to scuttle coup-fomenting Bolshevists on the mean streets of London...
Part Five of a rather English adventure: an Agatha Christie caper set amidst Bolshevist plots on the streets of London - The Secret Adversary...
Part Four of our latest audio diversion: The Secret Adversary - Agatha Christie's 1922 caper set in a London seething with Bolshevists and labour unrest...
Welcome to Episode Three of Agatha Christie's tale of Bolshevist revolution looming on the streets of London...
Welcome to Part Two of The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and set amidst Bolshevik intrigue on the streets of London...
Welcome to the sixty-second audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time - and our second venture into the work of the world's bestselling author, Agatha Christie...
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...
Tales for Our Time returns with a Steyn take on an H G Wells theme...