The Mark Steyn Weekend Show
Tenderest Fancies of a Desolate Planet
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Welcome to a brand new entry to our Mark Steyn Club anthology of video poetry. Because, as Mark always says, video poetry is where the big bucks are. This week's poem is The Last of the Books by Alfred Noyes...
Erin to Alba via Danny Boy
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A brand new entry to Mark's anthology of video poetry - because, as he always says, video poetry is where the big bucks are. So for St Patrick's Day a poem about ...St Columba?
In One Spirit Meet and Mingle
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Mark presents a brand new Valentine's entry to the Steyn Club anthology of video poetry
Of Sleep and Slough
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An anthology of some favorite Mark Steyn Show poems of recent months: From the Fall of Rome and of Constantinople to the joys of sleep, life's rich variety is all here...
Terrors and Triumphs
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An anthology of some favorite Mark Steyn Show poems of recent months, matched to some appropriate musical interludes. From the Reign of Terror and the Franklin Expedition to the joys of translation and eighteenth-century London's "Extraordinary Negro", life's rich variety is all here...
Steyn's Sunday Poems: Summer Special
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Welcome to the first of our weekend specials this summer - an anthology of some favorite Mark Steyn Show poems of recent months...
The Land Where Everything is Policed Except Crime
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Lurking in the shadows, criminalizing birthday serenades, and policing one's trousers are all within the purview of law enforcement in the coronapocalypse when it comes to the land where everything is policed except crime.
The Faint Half-Blush That Dies Along Her Throat
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Welcome to another entry in our Mark Steyn Club anthology of video poetry - Mark reads a disturbing poem by Robert Browning, My Last Duchess...
A Ribband of Red, a Rose of Shame
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Welcome to the latest entry in our Mark Steyn Club anthology of video poetry - The Low-Down White by Robert W Service, recorded live on the Mark Steyn Cruise....
The White Silence on video
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To watch Mark introduce and read Part One of The White Silence, simply click above. For previous Tales for Our Time, please click here. To comment on this latest story from The Mark Steyn Club, please click here and scroll down the page. Among the pleasures of Mark Steyn Club membership is that you can enjoy our video content in any medium you desire. So, if you'd rather sample the above in audio form, that can be found here. And join us tomorrow night in audio only for the conclusion of The White Silence. ...
The Mark Steyn Christmas Show
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Welcome to Mark's annual Christmas show, with guests from Hollywood, Broadway, British Columbia, Ireland and beyond joining Steyn for an hour plus of caroling and comedy...
Wabbling Back to the Fire
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Welcome to a new entry in our Mark Steyn Club anthology of video poetry - The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling, published one hundred years ago...
A Palsied Limb of Nature's Frame
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After President Trump's suggestion that the United States should buy Greenland, Mark reads the greatest of all poems on the subject...
The Snows of Yesteryear
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The latest entry in Mark's anthology of video poetry - with medieval murderers, an exhumation to inspire Dracula, and an image that's echoed down the centuries
The Sweeter Melodies Unheard
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The bicentennial of John Keats' amazingly productive spring of 1819 - and its loads of odes
The Ballad of Dead Ladies
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For the eighth in our series of classic poetry, Steyn reads The Ballad of Dead Ladies, written by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1869. To watch, simply click above. It's prefaced with an introduction by Mark in which he discusses the French original of this poem and Rossetti's own dead lady. To comment on this latest video from SteynOnline, please click here and scroll down the page. Among the pleasures of Mark Steyn Club membership is that you can enjoy our TV content in any medium you desire: video, audio or text. So, if you'd rather sample the above in non-visual form, that can be found here. ...
If Ye Break Faith With Us Who Die...
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On this centenary of the end of the Great War, there could really only be one choice for this weekend's video poem...
Keeping Your Head When All About You Are Losing Theirs
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A Mark Steyn Club video divertissement - courtesy of the students of Manchester University, who decided that Rudyard Kipling's "If..." is no longer acceptable...
A Prize Worth Winning
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Mark celebrates a classic love poem
If...
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For the fifth in our series of classic poetry, Steyn reads If, written by Rudyard Kipling and published in 1910. To watch, simply click above. It's prefaced with an introduction by Mark in which he discusses the enduring popularity of the work. To comment on this latest video from SteynOnline, please click here and scroll down the page. Among the pleasures of Mark Steyn Club membership is that you can enjoy our TV content in any medium you desire: video, audio or text. So, if you'd rather sample the above in non-visual form, that can be found here. ...
Jenny Kiss'd Me
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For the fourth in our series of classic poetry, Steyn reads Jenny kiss'd me, written by Leigh Hunt in 1838. To watch, simply click above. It's prefaced with an introduction by Mark in which he discusses the enduring popularity of the work. To comment on this latest video from SteynOnline, please click here and scroll down the page. Among the pleasures of Mark Steyn Club membership is that you can enjoy our TV content in any medium you desire: video, audio or text. So, if you'd rather sample the above in non-visual form, that can be found here. ...
A Valensteyn Special
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If music be the food of love, play on, quoth the poet. It's the season of love, and we're playing on with music and food and poetry in a Valentine edition of The Mark Steyn Show:
Ozymandias
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For the third in our series of classic poetry, Steyn reads Ozymandias, written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1818. To watch, simply click above. It's prefaced with an introduction by Mark in which he discusses the relevance of the work to our own time. To comment on this latest video venture from SteynOnline, please click here and scroll down the page. Among the pleasures of membership is that you can enjoy our TV content in any medium you desire: video, audio or text. So, if you'd rather sample the above in non-visual form, that can be found here. ...
A Child's Christmas in Wales
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A Christmas treat from Mark and the great Welsh star Siân Phillips:
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The Glory of Love
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If you saw singer/pianist Carol Welsman do "As Time Goes By" as our Sunday song a few weeks back, you'll know that she can freshen up the most familiar standard. So we're thrilled to have Carol back live, accompanied by the Steyn house band:
Recessional
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For the second in our series of classic poetry, Steyn reads Recessional, written by Rudyard Kipling and published in The Spectator in 1897. To watch, simply click above. It's prefaced with an introduction by Mark in which he discusses the relevance of the work to our own time. To comment on this latest video venture from SteynOnline, please click here and scroll down the page. Among the pleasures of membership is that you can enjoy our TV content in any medium you desire: video, audio or text. So, if you'd rather sample the above in non-visual form, that can be found here. ...
Steyn on Kipling
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This occasional feature celebrates some classic poetry that speaks to our own age as much as its own...
Big Mac en rose
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Michael Keaton's biopic of the man behind McDonald's; a tribute to Mary Tyler Moore; and Canada's disco diva Patsy Gallant recalls Édith Piaf:
Steyn on Dover Beach
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The first of a brand new series: Steyn on lines (of poetry)
Remembering the Forgotten Man
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The "Forgotten Man" has deep roots in American political history. Mark explores them with the author of a fine book on the subject -Amity Shlaes:
The Mark Steyn Weekend Show and our other video content is made possible through the support of members of The Mark Steyn Club...
"The Real Enemy"
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Mark talks to the screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd about politics and popular culture, movies and the military:
Steyn Live in Ottawa!
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Mark closed out the recent Manning Centre conference with a live stage performance of The Mark Steyn Show from Ottawa. The show includes Steyn on free speech, obscure Canadian jokes about Sir Mackenzie Bowell's fisheries minister, questions from the audience, and a live performance by the great Tal Bachman of a classic Canadian song:
Quoth the Klavan
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On this edition of The Mark Steyn Weekend Show, Mark talks to bestselling novelist and screenwriter Andrew Klavan about the intersection of politics, culture and religion in the Age of Trump.
After that, a musical palate klezmer - er, palate cleanser: the Klezmer Conservatory Band crowd onto the Steyn stage for a live tribute to Leonard Cohen - plus an especially wild finale:
The Buck Stops
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The bestselling novelist Lionel Shriver discusses The Mandibles, a vision of America after the dollar's collapse. Plus the 90th anniversary of Fritz Lang's masterpiece, Metropolis, and there's live music from twelve-time Grammy winner Cheryl Bentyne:
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