Programming note: please join Mark for another edition of his weekend music show Mark Steyn on the Town. It airs Saturday at 5pm UK/6pm Western Europe/12 noon North American Eastern. You can listen from almost anywhere on the planet by clicking the button at top right here.
~The Mark Steyn Club is not for everyone, but, if you're so inclined, it does have a unique combination of features, including Tales for Our Time, a cavalcade of seventy-four audio adventures in classic but highly pertinent literature, from George Orwell's Animal Farm to H G Wells's Time Machine, via Jane Austen, P G Wodehouse and Baroness Orczy.
Our latest caper is Agatha Christie's 1923 whodunnit starring Hercule Poirot. Mark's proposal for a Marthe Daubreuil OnlyFans page seems to have divided listeners, but, other than that, this is proving a very popular tale. Steve, a First Month Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club from Manhattan, says:
Captain Hastings spoke well for me a couple of episodes ago: 'I did think I was beginning to see my way before, but I'm now hopelessly fogged.' But even when the fog is at its thickest, Mark's rendering of the characters' words brings a smile. Thank you for this well chosen, beautifully dramatized tale.
In tonight's episode of The Murder on the Links, Poirot and Hastings stumble through the fog and emerge to find themselves at the Palace in Coventry:
The show was wearisome beyond words—or perhaps it was only my mood that made it seem so. Japanese families balanced themselves precariously, would-be fashionable men, in greenish evening dress and exquisitely slicked hair, reeled off society patter and danced marvellously, stout prima donnas sang at the top of the human register, a comic comedian endeavoured to be Mr. George Robey and failed signally.
At last the number went up which announced the Dulcibella Kids. My heart beat sickeningly...
To listen to the twenty-second episode of The Murder on the Links, please click here and log-in. If you're late getting started on this current Tale, you'll find the story so far here.
Tales for Our Time began as an experimental feature we introduced as a bonus for Mark Steyn Club members, and, as you know, Mark said if it was a total stinkeroo, we'd eighty-six the thing and speak no more of it. But we're thrilled to say it's proved very popular, and is now halfway through its ninth season. If you're a Club member and you incline more to the stinkeroo side of things, give it your best in the comments section below. But, either way, do join Mark tomorrow evening, a few hours after Saturday's Mark Steyn on the Town at Serenade Radio, for Part Twenty-Three of The Murder on the Links.
