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Steyn's Song of the Week
Sixteen Tons
We hope you can join Mark for Steyn's Song of the Week at Serenade Radio next Sunday - November 10th - because he'll be featuring one of his all-time favourite songs in a tale that takes in Georges Bizet and a Montreal chemistry professor. For this week, however, we've chosen a record that, exactly seven decades ago, was the Billboard Number One pop record across America. The following is adapted from Mark's book A Song For The Season: You know who loved this week's song? The late Antipodean polymath whom I miss so much - Clive James: When I was still in short pants, Tennessee Ernie Ford's basso profundo voice crossed the Pacific like a Boeing Stratocruiser and landed massively in the Australian hit parade. It sang: 'I was born one mornin' ...
Mark at the Movies
Mrs Brown
While Rick continues to recuperate, we are sharing this Mark at the Movies oldie but goodie from 2017. Mrs Brown, the story of Queen Victoria and John Brown, was made twenty years ago - 1997 - and by a quirk of timing was released a week after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. But, even without a helping hand from fate, it seemed designed to invite topical parallels. John Madden's film even has the mid-19th century's equivalent of paparazzi - coarse Fleet Street types in loud check suits, pencils poised, secreted in the heather, in hopes of a long-distance glimpse of Victoria and her game ghillie. The brawny Scot, played by Billy Connolly, scatters the interlopers and gives one of their number a kick in the thistles. But, of course, ...
Shaidle at the Cinema
Pather Panchali
Upon the centenary of Satyajit Ray, we present our late friend Kathy Shaidle's take on his 1955 classic Pather Panchali...
Steyn on Culture
A Baroness on Barrenness
Mark remembers P D James, and a remarkably prescient novel
The War on Free Speech
Lozza Laughs Last
In a stunning decision issued by the UK Court of Appeals (Civil Division), Mark's former colleague at GB News Laurence "Lozza" Fox has been delivered a sweet victory in a five year long case involving three individuals who falsely accused him of being racist...
Ave atque vale
Avalon with Carol Welsman and Russell Malone
Mark remembers a dear friend of the Steyn Show musical family, the guitarist Russell Malone...
The Bachman Beat
Tal Bachman: Cancelled by Popular Demand: My Final Rugby Installment
Tal Bachman wraps up his epic series...
Laura's Links
My Cup of Tea
Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...
Rick's Flicks
Traumatized in Tinseltown: Kirk Douglas in The Bad and the Beautiful
Vincente Minnelli's 1952 movie melodrama The Bad and the Beautiful opens with perhaps the most iconic crane shot ever shown on film...
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