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Rick's Flicks
Codebreaker: Barbara Stanwyck in Baby Face
There's a scene in Baby Face that ends up in every reel of highlights collected from Barbara Stanwyck's long career. Stanwyck plays Lily Power, the daughter of an Erie, Pennsylvania, speakeasy owner who has grown up too fast and too hard, and she's the object of the unwelcome attention of Ed (Arthur Hohl), a sleazy politician her father bribes to keep the police away from his business. Ed is pawing her knee as she slouches in a chair when she casually reaches for a cup of coffee and pours it on his hand. "Oh, excuse me," she says as she stands up and adjusts her skirt. "My hand shakes so when I'm around you." The scene sums up what comprised the bedrock of Stanwyck's onscreen persona: a toughness she came by honestly, and which no other ...
On the Town
À la Bastille!
On our annual Bastille Day episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we count down a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones down the decades and enjoy a sextet of Franco Sinatra, even if the French gets a bit iffy. Plus Zorba the Greek meets the washerwomen of Portugal. To listen to the programme, simply click here and log-in. ~Thank you for your kind comments about last week's edition. Jackie, a Pennsylvania Steyn Clubber, says: Outstanding show Mark! One of your best and the hour flies by! Such a great lineup along with the background as only you can do! I could have done without Frank's greasy hair but hey Hal Singer's Let's Rock was terrific! You truly have a gift! Anne Kearney, a First Month Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club, writes: ...
Politics & Current Affairs
Warm Welcomes
Programming note: Tonight we shall begin a brand new Tale for Our Time - our seventy-second. Tomorrow, Saturday, please join me for a Bastille Day 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. Need a few last-minute vacation suggestions? Here we go: ~Sharon Stone, a lady famed for her warm welcomes, is among the many Democrats praising this tourism ad for Quebec's Eastern Townships - because of its willingness to offer Americans a consoling hug: Eastern Townships tourism ad offers hug to Americans travelling to Canada https://t.co/vBIo6NBaAf — ...
Laura's Links
Thank You for Your Attention to This Matter!
Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...
Clubland Q&A
Epstein's Epilogue
If you missed our latest edition of Steyn's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay.
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday July 9th
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members around the planet...
Topical Take
The "Values" of Nothing
The twentieth anniversary of the July 7th London Tube bombings...
Politics & Current Affairs
Drowning in Lies
If you're swimming in Germany, beware of predatory redhead hausfraus...
Seasons of Steyn
Border Jumping
Steyn marks Dominion Day and Independence Day with an hour of musical border-jumping...
The Mark Steyn Show
Dan Wootton talks to Steyn
From the 2025 Steyn Cruise, Mark and Dan Wootton together again for the first time since the GB News days...
The Mark Steyn Show
A Long Cosy Relationship
Steyn talks to Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer about Irish anti-Semitism...
The Mark Steyn Show
Offed by Ofcom
A GB News reunion on the latest Mark Steyn Show Dan Wootton, Laurence Fox and Naomi Wolf...
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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...
A Clubman's Notes
A Vast Amount of Red
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 ...
A Clubman's Notes
The Very End of the World
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 ...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Rock Around the Clock
An anthem for rebellious youth written by a guy born in the nineteenth century
On the Town
For Whom the Clock Rocks
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"...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Favorite Fourths
Steyn celebrates Independence Day, in New Hampshire and beyond...
On the Town
Build a Fence Around Your Sister
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...
On the Town
Non-Indian Summer
On this week's episode, we wish a happy birthday to a legendary British lyricist, mark the solstice with summer and winter songs from the northern and summer hemispheres, and enjoy a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones down the decades...
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...
A Clubman's Notes
Hard Knocks
Welcome to the seventy-first audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time...
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
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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