The Mark Steyn Weekend Show
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. ...
The Mark Steyn Christmas Show
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An hour of songs and storytelling with Mark and guests from Hollywood, New York, Quebec, Ireland, Wales, France and beyond...
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:
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"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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