My dear friend Kathy Shaidle used to joke that there was a new generation of filmgoers for whom the history of movies began with Star Wars. After a while we started joking that another one had subsequently arrived for whom that history began with the Star Wars prequels. What it meant was that the event horizon of film history – of history itself – was telescoping into an ever-briefer period. Doing simple sums, the movies I grew up with in the '70s are as far away for these youngsters as the films of the '30s were for Kathy and me when we were their age. What we would learn about that golden age of the Hollywood studio system would rely on hearsay and received wisdom and the narrative laid out and overseen by historians and critics and the ...

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Steyn marks Dominion Day and Independence Day with an hour of musical border-jumping...

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Hello again and thank you very much for tuning in for another fresh batch of Laura's Links. The dust has settled a little bit from the "12 Day War" and things have remained relatively quiet in that part of the world. The ceasefire between Israel and Iran seems to be holding and there are all kinds of rumours floating around about the Abraham Accords, negotiations between Israel, America and Hamas among others. But really, anyone who tells you that they know exactly, or even almost exactly how this is all going to play out, is totally full of crap. The situation is a powder keg and still very fluid and the vast majority of people in all of these countries and in all of our countries know precious little about what is being negotiated. ...

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This week's show covered a range of topics from the Great Pushback in America and impending civil war elsewhere to the Afghan Cary Grant and insufficient wind at the opera...

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

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Ofcom decided that my conversation with Naomi Wolf about the Covid vaccines risked causing "harm" to people. And we wouldn't want that, would we? So I was interested to learn from the weekend's Glastonbury Festival just who you can target for "harm"...

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Rick McGinnis on this year's summer blockbuster, and its motor-racing predecessors...

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The essential difference between the rulers and the ruled is that the former get to swan off to banquets hosted by the hottie Dutch queen where they make grand plans for places even more distant and unpronounceable, while the latter can't help noticing that their own towns and countries are a lot crapper than they were twenty years ago...

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From the 2025 Steyn Cruise, Mark and Dan Wootton together again for the first time since the GB News days...

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Mark catches up with Steyn Show favourites Jules Serkin and Naomi Wolf. Jules, a BBC presenter, fell victim to the AstraZeneca vaccine. Yet her own colleagues stayed silent...

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Steyn talks to Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer about Irish anti-Semitism...

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Who owes one million dollars now?

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A GB News reunion on the latest Mark Steyn Show Dan Wootton, Laurence Fox and Naomi Wolf...

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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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Steyn celebrates Independence Day, in New Hampshire and beyond...

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At noon on this day in 1867, the British North America Act came into effect and the Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Canada - that's Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lower Canada (Quebec) - were united into the brand new Dominion of Canada...

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Steyn on a classic Canadian song

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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. To listen to the programme, simply click here and log-in. ~Thank you for your kind comments about last week's edition. Anne says: Great show as always Mark! Enjoyed your selection of songs and chat to celebrate Don Black's birthday. So did Catherine: Thank you Mark for yet another totally unmissable show. Many happy returns of the day to the great Don Black, a legend. The first two tracks from Matt Monro set the standard for these songs – wonderful. Fran Lavery, a First Weekend Founding Member of The Mark Steyn Club, also enjoyed the birthday observances: There are lots of useful nuggets of wisdom in your ...

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Mark tells the story of Irving Berlin's great American anthem...

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On this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we wish a happy birthday to a legendary British lyricist, mark the solstice with summer and winter songs from the northern and summer hemispheres, celebrate the perfect match of singer and songwriting team, and enjoy a cavalcade of Non-Stop Number Ones down the decades. To listen to the programme, simply click here and log-in. ~Thank you for your kind comments about last week's edition. Suzy says: Every week I marvel at Mark Steyn's vast knowledge of nostalgic songs and his anecdotes of all the top composers, lyricists and singers he has personally known that he shares with us. (Not least how he finds the time to do it!) A wonderful insight into many popular songs from Serenade's playlist. ...

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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...

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

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A rerun of a Tale for Our Time first aired almost a decade ago: Belling the Cat by Rudyard Kipling...

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Welcome to the seventieth 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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