A Clubman's Notes
Astir with Crawling White Filaments
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Just ahead of Episode Twelve of The Riddle of the Sands, I want to thank you for your kind comments about Tales for Our Time. Two years ago, when we launched this series of audio adventures, the whole thing was somewhat hastily thrown together and gotten into gear. So I'm enormously grateful for your appreciation of it. To mark our second birthday we reconfigured our Tales for Our Time home page in a friendlier Netflix-style tile format that we hope will make it easier to pick out a favorite yarn of an evening according to what you're in the mood for - thriller, sci-fi, historical romance. Our current tale is Erskine Childers' prototype spy yarn and influential warning of German plots afoot on an exposed British flank in the years before ...
The Little Lust-Cutter
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Time for Part Eleven of The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
A Peevish Dandy as Insidious Viper
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Welcome to the latest installment of our current Tale for Our Time - Erskine Childers' hugely influential bestselling thriller of The Riddle of the Sands. In two years of audio adventures, we have never presented a book that has so divided listeners...
Working It Out
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Part Eight of our latest radio serial, The Riddle of the Sands...
Waking Up the Admiralty Slackers
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Welcome to Part Nine of the lone but influential novel by British patriot turned Irish republican Erskine Childers - The Riddle of the Sands. In tonight's episode Davies suggests to Carruthers that the man behind the German plot is not German at all...
A Bad Hand at Duplicity
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It's time for Part Seven of my serialization of The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers - the latest in our series Tales for Our Time.
Ducking the Question
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Welcome to Part Six of the latest audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time: The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers - a spy story of German machinations in the Frisian Islands that speaks to us still over a century later...
Bullet Foreheads and Large Mouths
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Here comes Part Five of my serialization of The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers' protean spy novel of Anglo-German intrigue a decade before the Great War. In tonight's episode, Carruthers and Davies steer the Dulcibella into port...
Yachting for Rebels
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Part Four of my summer serialization of Erskine Childers' protean spy thriller of 1903 The Riddle of the Sands...
A Want of Creamy Purity
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Part Three of my serialization of The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers.
No Dressing for Dinner
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Welcome to Part Two of The Riddle of the Sands, our latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time...
Intrinsic Interest and Racy Delivery
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Welcome to the first of our summer season of audio adventures. This is the twenty-eighth of our radio serials, and it's a highly influential story that for many critics is the first modern spy novel...
Jinns, Rosières, and Prince Bob
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One of the most popular features of Tales for Our Time has been the music Mark chooses to accompany each story. So here, after many requests, is a sampler of the accompanying melodies from some of our tales...
The Edwardian Internet
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Welcome to our second-birthday Tale for Our Time. E M Forster conjures a brilliant vision - from 110 years ago - of how we live now, anticipating the Internet, Google, Apple, Skype and more...
Defective Rhymes and Symphonic Crises
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Welcome to the final installment of our Steyn Club second-birthday Tale for Our Time - written in 1909 by E M Forster. Thank you so much for all your kind comments about this latest radio serialization. Andrew A from Alberta:
A cautionary tale of the dangers of cyberspace and the Information Age. The Machine serves humanity by facilitating transmission of ideas, but it depends on humans for them. It is humans who create ideas, test them, then discard or improve them based on human-scale judgements informed by feedback from reality. Cut out the human connection to reality, and the closed system runs itself down. This might become my favourite Tale for Our Time yet...
When Unrest is Sedentary
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Welcome to Part Two of our second-birthday Tale for Our Time: E M Forster's 1909 guide to how we will live in the twenty-first century. In tonight's episode, Vashti is unnerved by a rare move away from the cyber-pleasures of the Machine back to the real world...
The Mahdi and the Eloi
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by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, F Scott Fitzgerald, Anthony Hope, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson and H G Wells
Mark presents a sampler of tales from the first season of Tales for Our Time...
Now We Are Two
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Today marks the first day of the third year of The Mark Steyn Club...
Announcing... The Second Annual Mark Steyn Club Cruise
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Following last year's sell-out maiden voyage, we decided to make the Mark Steyn Club Cruise an annual event. And so the second Steyn cruise will leave Vancouver on September 4th and sail through Alaska's beautiful Inside Passage to Glacier Bay. I'll be doing double-duty, hosting the cruise, and also hosting live editions of The Mark Steyn Show at sea...
The Stubborn Beast-Flesh
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Welcome to the final installment of our Mark Steyn Club second-birthday Tale for Our Time...
Announcing... The Third Annual Mark Steyn Club Cruise
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Following last year's sell-out maiden voyage, we decided to make the Mark Steyn Club Cruise an annual event. Following this year's sell-out cruise to Alaska, we decided to spread our wings and announce next year's third cruise a little early. And so the first ever Steyn Mediterranean cruise will leave Rome on October 5th 2020 and sail aboard Holland America's brand new ms Nieuw Statendam to Cartagena, Gibraltar, Seville, Barcelona, Marseille, Monte Carlo, Florence and Pisa, before before returning to Rome on October 15th. Our Club has members all over the map - the Czech Republic, Thailand, Vanuatu - so there isn't really any ideal cruise itinerary other than a round-the-world voyage (which we'll consider a year or three hence), and, so ...
The Advancing Monsters
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Here's the pen- ulti- mate part of H G Wells' horrific story of man and beast and the thin dividing line...
Making a Beast of Yourself
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In this latest epi-sode of The Island of Dr Moreau by H G Wells, Montgomery decides that the best way to keep the Beast Men human is ...booze...
Not Human, Not Animal, But Hellish
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In Part Twelve of The Island of Dr Moreau, there is a breakout from Moreau's House of Pain...
"Not to Suck Your Drink"
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Welcome to Part Eleven of The Island of Dr Moreau. The doctor's race of new men are reverting to beasts at an accelerating rate...
Prognathous and Protuberant
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Part Ten of H G Wells' thrilling tale of The Island of Dr Moreau
The Extreme Limit of Plasticity
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Part Nine of H G Wells' horrific vision of man defying biology, The Island of Dr Moreau...
Some Bestial Taint
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Welcome to Part Eight of H G Wells' horrific exploration of the fine line between man and beast - The Island of Dr Moreau...
The Sayers of the Law
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It's time for Part Seven of our serialization of The Island of Dr Moreau by H G Wells...
The Peculiar Smell of Carbolic Acid
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Welcome to Part Six of The Island of Dr Moreau. H G Wells' horrific exploration of man's repudiation of biology speaks to us still a century-and-a-quarter on...
On All-Fours Like a Beast
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Part Five of my serialization of The Island of Dr Moreau, H G Wells' tale of a man of science playing God on the fringe of the map...
Shuddering Recoil and Amiable Bending
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In Part Four of my serialization of H G Wells' terrifying adventure The Island of Dr Moreau, Prendick has arrived at Dr Moreau's eponymous island...
Man Overboard
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In Part Three of my serialization of The Island of Dr Moreau, having been rescued by a passing ship, Edward Prendick finds that, unlike the valued cargo of Dr Moreau, he is about to be tossed back in the briny...
A South Sea Menagerie
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Welcome to Part Two of The Island of Dr Moreau, an H G Wells classic on man's boundless ambition...
Thinking Strange Things
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When H G Wells wrote this story in the mid-1890s, vivisection and the moral questions it raised were much in the news. A century on, we remain squeamish about animal experimentation, but are blithely applying Wells' theories on defying biology to ourselves...
"This Will Kill That"
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Mark presents a special Tale for Our Time featuring selections from The Hunchback of Notre Dame - or, to give it Victor Hugo's title in French, Notre-Dame de Paris...
Crowd-Making in Chicago
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Welcome to the second half of our double-bill of science fiction by Rudyard Kipling:
Isn't it almost time that our Planet took some interest in the proceedings of the Aerial Board of Control..?
Kipling Does Sci-Fi
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Welcome to the twenty-third yarn in these Tales for Our Time. We're going to be spending the next few days with a brace of stories featuring the Aerial Board of Control. What's that? Well...
Suppling Visibly
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Welcome to the final episode of our current Tale for Our Time - in fact, a brace of tales by Rudyard Kipling about the protean world government of the twenty-first century, the Aerial Board of Control...
Pillars of White Fire
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The latest installment of my serialization of Rudyard Kipling's sci-fi stories about a protean world government - the Aerial Board of Control...
A Sky-Scraping Chimney Sweep
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Welcome to Part Two of The Mark Steyn Club's latest Tale for Our Time - a rare venture into sci-fi by Rudyard Kipling...
Anne Adrift
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Mark and Michele Bachmann celebrate Anne of Green Gables live from Prince Edward Island
The Blurry Area in the Middle
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Patrice Wilding of The Citizens' Voice talks to Miller and Steyn about comedy and commentary
Plum Duff
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Mark closes out the year with a different kind of audio entertainment...
I'll Be Holmes for Christmas
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The second of this year's Christmas entertainments is The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle. Dr Watson calls on Sherlock Holmes and finds the great man fascinated by an old, worn hat...
As Ye Give, So Shall Ye Receive
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We present the third of this year's seasonal Tales for Our Time - one of the most famous of all American short stories, and, in fact, a perfectly constructed story: written by O Henry in 1905, The Gift of the Magi...
Little Women at Christmas
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Welcome to the first of our Christmas entertainments for this year...
Fowl Play
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Part Two of The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle begins with the appearance of a chap wearing a Scotch bonnet - a tam o'shanter - to which he is most ill-suited. Sherlock Holmes is happy to restore the fellow's hat - and supply a replacement Yuletide goose...
Bread and Milk for Christmas Breakfast
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Welcome to the second episode of our seasonal sampling of Little Women by Louisa May Alcott...
The Delightful Storybook Fashion
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Welcome to the final installment of our seasonal sampling from a beloved American classic, Little Women...
Damn! Zounds! And Odd's Life!
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In the final episode of Baroness Orczy's unforgettable adventure The Scarlet Pimpernel, the Pas de Calais air is alive with unGallic oaths...
"For God's Sake, Fly!"
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Welcome to the penultimate episode of Baroness Orczy's tale of romance and adventure in France's Reign of Terror - The Scarlet Pimpernel. In tonight's installment, what's a devoted wife to do when a chap comes sauntering along the Cap Gris-Nez surrounded by fervent revolutionaries and starts singing "God Save the King"?
Glimmering and Vast
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It's time for Part Twenty-Two of my serialization of The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. In tonight's episode, as the action races toward its climax on the Cap Gris-Nez, Marguerite espies what may yet prove a glimmer of hope...
Grandfathered Inn
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In Part Twenty-One of The Scarlet Pimpernel Citoyen Chauvelin sets off in pursuit of the Pimpernel, and in turn Marguerite sets off in pursuit of Chauvelin...
A Jew in Calais
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Welcome to Episode Twenty of our nightly audio adventure, The Scarlet Pimpernel. We're barreling down toward the thrilling finale...
Odd's Fish!
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In Part Nineteen of The Scarlet Pimpernel, in a grotesque, squalid tavern on the outskirts of Calais, Marguerite witnesses her husband, a man posing as an English fop, come face to face with her sworn enemy, a man posing as a French priest...
The Table Is Set...
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Welcome to Episode Eighteen of our nightly audio adventure: The Scarlet Pimpernel, a romantic thriller drenched in the blood of France's Reign of Terror...
Stale Fish and Cellar Odors
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Here we go with the Sunday installment of Baroness Orczy's thrilling romance set against the bloody overthrow of the old order...
When Interference Comes Too Late
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Welcome to Episode Sixteen of our nightly audio adventure, The Scarlet Pimpernel - written by Baroness Orczy, and a prescient work in its view of the revolutionary urge to raze all to the ground...
An Exquisite Dandy and a Daring Plotter
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In Part Fifteen of The Scarlet Pimpernel the action is rattling along: They seek him here, they seek him there, but Marguerite is forced to confront the possibility that all this time the Pimpernel may have been far closer to hand than she ever expected...
The Sanctum of a Dandy
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The Reign of Terror continues in The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy, a tale of love and duty set against the blood-drenched France of 1792...
Hot Hands and Cold Lips
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Here's the 13th episode of Baroness Orczy's stirring story of an English fop, his French wife, and the terrors of revolution - The Scarlet Pimpernel...
Fancourt Fiction
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Welcome to Episode Twelve of our nightly audio adventure, The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orzcy's thrilling tale of revolutionary France and the Reign of Terror...
The Last Minuet
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Here's the eleventh episode of our current Tale for Our Time - Baroness Orczy's classic tale from France's Reign of Terror, The Scarlet Pimpernel. This one is proving especially popular with Mark Steyn Club members...
Everybody Who Was Anybody
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Part Ten of Baroness Orczy's thrilling romance of French fanaticism and an Englishman's duty, The Scarlet Pimpernel...
Boxed In
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Welcome to Part Nine of our latest Tale for Our Time, set in the turmoil of the French Revolution as conjured by Baroness Orczy in The Scarlet Pimpernel...
Waggish Tongues and Frigid Deference
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Welcome to the eighth episode of our current Tale for Our Time: Baroness Orczy's classic tale of France during the Reign of Terror, and one Englishman's determination to resist it - The Scarlet Pimpernel...
The Undeniably Living Eyes
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It's time for Part Seven of our serialization of The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. The best adventures need the best villains, and in tonight's episode we meet ours - Citizen Chauvelin...
The Blood Tax of Utopia
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Welcome to Part Six of The Scarlet Pimpernel. Baroness Orczy's thrilling adventure from France's Reign of Terror speaks to us still...
Billowy Frills and Tight Striped Breeches
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Part Five of The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy's tale of France's Reign of Terror, and timelier than ever...
A Humble Wayside Flower
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Here we go with Part Four of our brand new Tale for Our Time - my serialization of Baroness Orczy's thrilling adventure The Scarlet Pimpernel...
The Death of a Princess
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In Part Three of The Scarlet Pimpernel, refugees from the terror on the Continent flee across the water...
A Bastion of Prejudiced Insularity
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Welcome to Part Two of The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Mark Steyn Club's latest audio adventure in Tales for Our Time and a classic tale of honor, duty and romance by Baroness Orczy...
The Lust of Vengeance
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Welcome to the eighteenth of our monthly audio adventures
In the Presence of "This Creature"
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Happy Halloween - and welcome to the final episode of our current Tale for Our Time: Franz Kafka's unforgettable novella, Metamorphosis...
Crawling Up the Wall No More
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Welcome to the penultimate episode of Franz Kafka's tale of a man in transition - Metamorphosis
Shedding His Human Background
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Here we go with Part Four of my serialization of Franz Kafka's brilliant novella Metamorphosis...
Bread and Milk and Apprehension
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Part Three of my serialization of Metamorphosis, a Kafka classic first published in 1915. Its scurrying protagonist is as compelling as ever...
Parted Lips and a Twitching Shoulder
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Welcome to Part Two of Metamorphosis, The Mark Steyn Club's latest Tale for Our Time and a classic story by a great Jewish writer, Franz Kafka
Meet the Beetle
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Welcome to the seventeenth of our Tales for Our Time - Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis
"We've All Had Our Whack"
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From The Mark Steyn Club Cruise sailing down the Eastern Seaboard, welcome to the final episode of John Buchan's prescient thriller set in the hell of the Great War...
A Hanging Before Dusk
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Welcome to the penultimate episode of John Buchan's thriller of German machinations and Islamic revival
On the Tsar's Nightstand
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Welcome to Episode Twenty of our nightly audio adventure, Greenmantle
The Ephod of the Prophet
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Direct from the Mark Steyn Club Cruise at beautiful Prince Edward Island, where the gables are green but the mantles aren't, welcome to Part Nineteen of John Buchan's Great War thriller...
The Minarets of Erzerum
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Welcome to Episode Eighteen of our nightly audio adventure - Greenmantle
The Fields of Nebuchadnezzar
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Time for the Sunday installment of our Tale for Our Time, a John Buchan thriller set on the great enduring fault line between east and west...
A Rattlesnake and a Bird
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Direct from the St Lawrence River on the first night of the inaugural Mark Steyn Club Cruise, welcome to Episode Sixteen of our nightly audio adventure
The Purification of the Wild Wind
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Welcome to Part Fifteen of Greenmantle, and the action is rattling along. As Shauno tweets of last night's episode: "Pretty good this one Mark the whole book is awesome." Indeed...
A Fish on a Sandbank
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Greenmantle was written by John Buchan in 1916, and does not want for the manly virtues. But in tonight's episode Richard Hannay comes face to face with ...a woman!
An Unhealthy City for Strangers
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Here's the 13th episode of our current Tale for Our Time, John Buchan's stirring story of three British subjects and a duodenally-afflicted American racing to prevent an Islamic uprising...
Of the Blood of the Prophet
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Welcome to Episode Twelve of our nightly audio adventure, Greenmantle - written by John Buchan in 1916 and a thrilling tale of international intrigue - and Islam...
An Icy Wind Fanning the Filth
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Here's the eleventh episode of our current Tale for Our Time - John Buchan's classic thriller of Great Power intrigue and Islamic insurrection...
Sitting on the Dock of the Bey
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Welcome to Part Ten of our current Tale for Our Time - John Buchan's thriller of Islamic intrigue and Teutonic trouble-making, Greenmantle...
Putting a Spoke in the Juggernaut
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Part Nine of a thriller of international intrigue whose repercussions will echo through the chancelleries of Europe...
To Laugh and Be Merciful
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The eighth episode of our current Greenmantle: John Buchan's classic race across Europe to stop the Germans setting the Muslim world afire...
The Other Side of the German Army
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It's time for Part Seven of our serialization of Greenmantle by John Buchan. But, before we get to tonight's episode, several listeners were startled by this passage...
Summoning the Whole Earth
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Part Six of Greenmantle, a prescient yarn published in 1916 that speaks to us still a century later
Where the Fuel is Driest...
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Part Five of Greenmantle, written in 1916 by John Buchan, and timelier than ever a century on in its view of Islam and the west
The Flint and Steel of Religion
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Part Four of our brand new Tale for Our Time - my serialization of John Buchan's classic thriller Greenmantle
Sharp-Eyed Fellows and Lisbon Boulevardiers
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Part Three of John Buchan's thriller about a new Muslim leader emerging out of Turkey
Benevolent Neutrals and Effete Monarchies
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Part Two of John Buchan's thriller about a new Muslim prophet to set the world ablaze
The Parched Grasses Wait the Spark
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Welcome to the new fall season of Tales for Our Time, and John Buchan's classic thriller of great-power intrigue and an Islamic uprising - Greenmantle...
Announcing... The Inaugural Mark Steyn Club Cruise
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Sail with Steyn and his special guests
Dawn's Early Light, Eighteen Months On
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Steyn previews the very first Mark Steyn Club Cruise with a wide-ranging interview with former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann
A Note to My Readers
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As I mentioned on yesterday's Clubland Q&A, I have to take off for a few weeks to remote parts in order to crack the back of a project that's been on hold for fifteen months because Cary Katz and CRTV were suing me for $10 million. (They lost.) At any rate, the coming weeks will take me somewhat off the grid WiFi-wise, and that can't be helped because it's a very small window of opportunity. Katz and CRTV have re-sued me in multiple jurisdictions, this time for a combined $20 million.
Clubland Open Thread: Wednesday June 27th
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While Mark's away, and by request of members, we're experimenting with an occasional "open thread" forum at SteynOnline. If you're a member of The Mark Steyn Club and there's something on your mind not covered by Mark's columns or audio-video presentations, feel free to raise it here. The whole world can read it, but Club membership is required to write it. So, if you've been toying with signing up, either for a full year or a see-how-it-goes experimental quarter, you're more than welcome to sign up and give it your best below. Please remember our usual comment strictures apply - except the one about going off-topic, as in this case the topics are your call. Otherwise, no profanity, no ad hominem attacks, no URL-fests, and don't go crazily ...
Down to a Fine Thing
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Welcome to the concluding episode of our latest Tale for Our Time - and the launch of our second year of audio adventures. We've gone back to the writer we started with - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...
The Holmes Front
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Welcome to the second season of our monthly audio adventures, Tales for Our Time...
Year Two Begins
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The first day of The Mark Steyn Club's second year in business
Not Man Enough for Your Wenches?
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Welcome to the final part of our Mark Steyn Club first-birthday Tale for Our Time - written in 1888 by Rudyard Kipling for the Indian Railway Library...
"Happy Day" Is Here Again
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The winners of our Steyn Club first-anniversary competition
Sons of Alexander on a Four-Wheeled Bogy
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Here's the fourth episode of our Mark Steyn Club first-birthday Tale for Our Time - a whimsical account of nation-building in Kafiristan, The Man Who Would Be King...
What was Left of a Man
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Welcome to Part Three of The Man Who Would Be King. Two years have passed since a brace of English adventurers set off to become kings of Kafiristan. Our narrator has not heard a word of them - until one sweltering summer afternoon...
The One Place Two Strong Men Can Sar-a-Whack
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On this Royal Wedding day, welcome to Part Two of Rudyard Kipling's guide to becoming royalty rather than merely marrying into it: The Man Who Would Be King...
A King in Kafiristan
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Welcome to our first-anniversary audio adventure in our popular series Tales for Our Time. This is the fourteenth of our radio serials, and it's especially timely if you're contemplating this weekend's Royal Wedding at St George's Chapel and wondering why you can't marry into royalty. So here's an alternative solution: find a far-flung pinprick on the map and become its king...
A Feint of Breakfasting
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Welcome to the final installment of our current Tale for Our Time - written in 1885 by Robert Louis Stevenson, first as a shilling shocker and then, at his wife's suggestion, as a darker allegorical tale...
The Primitive and Cursed Duality of Man
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Welcome to the eighth episode of our current Tale for Our Time - Robert Louis Stevenson's classic allegory of good and evil in one human form...
A Sight to Stagger
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It's time for Part Seven of my serialization of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. In tonight's episode Dr Lanyon receives a visitor and comes, so to speak, face to face with the truth...
A Coldness in the Marrow
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Welcome to Part Six of the latest audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time, a psychological shocker first published in 1886: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson...
Terror to Freeze the Blood
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Here comes Part Five of my serialization of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, written in 1885 by Robert Louis Stevenson, published early the following year, and never out of print in the century-and-a-third since...
A Shattered Visage Lies...
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Steyn marks the bicentennial of Shelley's "Ozymandias"
Done with Him
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Here we go with Part Four of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A Very Pretty Manner of Politeness
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Welcome to Part Three of my serialization of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the latest in our series of audio adventures, Tales for Our Time...
Madness or Disgrace?
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Welcome to Part Two of The Mark Steyn Club's latest Tale for Our Time - an acknowledged classic by Robert Louis Stevenson...
Identity and Invention
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Welcome to the thirteenth in our series Tales for Our Time - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
CRTV vs Steyn: The Verdict
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A case that should never have been brought finally ends.
Walking Sticks and Warming Pans
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As the concluding episode of The Thirty-Nine Steps begins, the utter middle-class suburban normality of the scene has paralysed Richard Hannay...
Suburban Black Mambas
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Welcome to the eleventh episode of John Buchan's classic thriller
Tawny and Tethered
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Welcome to Part Ten of Mark's reading of The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Jermyn Attack
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Welcome to Part Nine of our thriller of international intrigue
Stickles and Stones
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In Chapter Eight of John Buchan's classic "shocker" Richard Hannay heads south...
"My Knowledge Wasn't ...Exact"
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In Part Seven of The Thirty-Nine Steps Richard Hannay is a prisoner of the Germans, and anxious to escape...
A Not So Benevolent Old Gentleman
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Welcome to Part Six of The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
A Smackin' Corker
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Here comes Part Five of The Thirty-Nine Steps, written in 1915 by John Buchan, and never out of print in the century since...
A Colonial Free Trader in a Thousand-Guinea Car
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Here we go with Part Four of my serialization of John Buchan's classic "shocker" The Thirty-Nine Steps...
Scot Free?
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Welcome to Part Three of Mark's serialization of The Thirty-Nine Steps
A Milkman on the Run
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Welcome to Part Two of The Mark Steyn Club's latest Tale for Our Time
Shop-Girls, Dandies, and a Man on the Stair
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Welcome to the twelfth in our series Tales for Our Time, and this one's a corker...
Of Coats and Ghosts
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As the concluding episode of Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat approaches its memorable climax, Akakiy Akakievitch is not taking well the loss of his coat...
The Center of Attention
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Welcome to Part Three of my serialization of The Overcoat
Frugal Tiptoeing
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Welcome to Part Two of The Mark Steyn Club's latest Tale for Our Time - Gogol's The Overcoat
"We All Come Out of Gogol's Overcoat"
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Welcome to the eleventh in our series Tales for Our Time, and the second half of our double-bill of frosty fiction from opposite ends of the northern hemisphere
The Excruciating Ache
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Welcome to the concluding episode of our latest Tale for Our Time - Jack London's To Build a Fire
Chilling Out
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The first of a double-bill of exceptionally frosty fiction from opposite ends of the northern hemisphere
Stirring Up and Piping Down
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Welcome to the conclusion of our bonus holiday Tale for Our Time - my own short story Plum Duff, prompted partly by the grim headlines of a season under siege...
Steyn Goes Full Humbug
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Welcome to the Christmas season at SteynOnline, starting with this brand new Tale for Our Time...
"God Bless Us, Every One!"
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Welcome to the final episode of our current Tale for Our Time - written by Charles Dickens a few weeks before Christmas 1843
Unwatched and Unwept
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Welcome to Part Eight of our current audio entertainment, my serialization of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens...
Shadows of the Things That Have Not Happened
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It's time for Part Seven of my serialization of A Christmas Carol. In tonight's episode Scrooge comes face to no-face with the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come...
A Can of Grog and the Fruit of Good Works
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Welcome to Part Six of our latest audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time: This seasonal tale is an undoubted classic, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens...
A Speckled Cannon-Ball
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Here comes Part Five of A Christmas Carol...
Cold Roast and a Sir Roger de Coverley
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Here we go with Part Four of our brand new Tale for Our Time - my serialization of Charles Dickens' seasonal classic A Christmas Carol
"Rise! And Walk With Me!"
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Welcome to Part Three of my serialization of A Christmas Carol...
Chains Over the Casks
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In Part Two of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge comes face to face with the ghost of his long dead business partner...
Seeping Back into the Matrix
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Welcome to the final episode of our current Tale for Our Time. As the concluding episode of The Rubber Check begins, Val Schuyler is momentarily flush...
Cutting In ...and Cut Out
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Welcome to the latest of The Mark Steyn Club's Tales for Our Time: Mark reads Part Two of Scott Fitzgerald's short story "The Rubber Check"...
The Rubber Check
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The first half of our Scott Fitzgerald double-bill was The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, a fantastical satire. This second yarn is the very opposite in its catastrophic ordinariness: A young man, dining with company, finds himself presented with the check...
The First Fifteen
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Fifteen years ago the good ship SteynOnline was launched down the slipway...
Entering the Middle Class
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Welcome to the final episode of our current Tale for Our Time - a fantastical novella about untold wealth and its managerial challenges...
An Illiterate Napkin-Tucker to the Rescue
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Part Five of Mark's serialization of The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
"Many Men in the Cage?"
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Part Four of Scott Fitzgerald's novella The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
A Shiny Squirrel
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Welcome to Part Three of my serialization of The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, the latest in our series of audio adventures, Tales for Our Time...
Where the United States Ends
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Welcome to the latest of The Mark Steyn Club's Tales for Our Time. This new audio adventure is The Diamond as Big as the Ritz...
Great (and Not So Great) Scott
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On what would have been his ninetieth birthday, Steyn looks back at George C Scott and his Patton of behavior
"Heaven Doesn't Always Make the Right Men Kings!"
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Welcome to the final episode of our current Tale for Our Time...
"Honor Binds a Woman Too"
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Mark reads Part Fifteen of our latest Tale for Our Time, Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda
A Night of Intrigue
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Steyn reads Part Fourteen of The Prisoner of Zenda
Men, Moats and Mistresses
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Here's the 13th episode of our current Tale for Our Time - Anthony Hope's stirring story of a game English tourist stepping in to save the throne of Ruritania...
An Impostor for the Profit of Another
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Tomorrow, Wednesday, I'll be keeping my weekly date with Tucker Carlson, live coast to coast at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific on Fox News. Meanwhile, here's Episode Twelve of our nightly audio adventure, The Prisoner of Zenda
Readying the Knife
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We'll kick off the new week with the eleventh episode of our current Tale for Our Time...
Jacob's Ladder, Zenda-Style
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Welcome to Part Ten of our current Tale for Our Time
A Debonair Knave
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Welcome to Part Nine of our latest Tale for Our Time. In tonight's episode we meet the dashing but deadly Rupert of Hentzau...
"If I Were Not the King..."
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In Part Eight of The Prisoner of Zenda, there is a grand ball at the palace in Strelsau - and a vacationing Englishman finds the part he has to play sorely straining...
A Mongrel Dog
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Time for Part Seven of The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope. In tonight's episode Rudolf Rassendyll comes face to face with the man who knows his secret...
Grating Chuckles and Shaken Dukes
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Welcome to Part Six of our latest audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time: This tale is an undoubted classic, The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope...
The Secret of a Cellar
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Time for Part Five of my serialization of The Prisoner of Zenda, first published in 1894 but truly a Tale for Our Time...
A King Sans Cuirassiers
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Part Four of our new Tale for Our Time - Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda
"I'll Lay a Crown He's Never Crowned!"
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Welcome to Part Three of my serialization of The Prisoner of Zenda
Cutting Out the Duke
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Welcome to Part Two of Mark's new audio adventure, The Prisoner of Zenda
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...
The Pest in the Street
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Welcome to the final episode of our current Tale for Our Time - Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent
Waterloo Sunset
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The penultimate episode of The Secret Agent
Of Pipperoos and Packets
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Episode Eighteen of our nightly audio adventure, The Secret Agent
"The Drop Given was Fourteen Feet"
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In Episode Seventeen of Mark's audio adaptation of The Secret Agent, Winnie Verloc faces what she has done, and dreads the price she will pay for it...
The Last Star of a Pyrotechnic Display
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In the wake of yesterday's Tube bombing, here's Episode Sixteen of The Secret Agent...
Quaking in Our Shoes
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Welcome to Episode Fourteen of The Secret Agent
Everything But That
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Mark reads Part Fifteen of The Secret Agent
All Mixed Up Together
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Here's the 13th episode of our current Tale for Our Time - Joseph Conrad's story of terrorists walking the streets of London just over a century ago...
The Clatter of the Bell
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On the day after the 9/11 anniversary observances, here's Episode Twelve of our nightly audio adventure...
A Benevolent Institution for the Suppression of Evil
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Welcome to Part Eleven of our latest Tale for Our Times: Mark reads Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent
"Spare Me the Details"
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Mark reads Part Ten of his serialization of Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent
A Known Wolf in London
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We hope all our Florida members are staying safe on this turbulent weekend. Meanwhile, here's Part Nine of our latest Tale for Our Time - Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent...
The Moral Harm of It
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As we head into Hurricane Irma weekend, welcome to Part Eight of our latest audio adventure The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad...
"He Was That Scattered..."
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Mark reads Part Seven of our latest audio adventure, The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad - including a forensic examination of a prematurely self-detonating terrorist
"A Man's Body Blown to Pieces"
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Welcome to Part Six of The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
The Finger on the India-Rubber Ball
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Part Five of Mark's audio adaptation of The Secret Agent
Repose and Security
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Mark reads Part Four of our audio adaptation of Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent - and contemplates Mark Steyn Club cruise destinations
The Name of Destroyers
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Part Three of Mark's serialization of The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
The Sacrosanct Fetish
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Welcome to Part Two of Mark's serialization of The Secret Agent
From Barbarous to Evil
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The left's assault on history claims the oldest monument to Columbus in America
Eclipsapalooza!
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Mark guest-hosts Total Eclipse Monday on America's Number One radio show
Has Anybody Here Seen Priebus?
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Steyn on General Kelly, and a short-lived Mooch
Yes, But...
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Ever since I started writing about the west's deathbed demography in the years after 9/11, I've encountered a lot of people who object, "Ah, yes, but..."
A Gaudy Lie?
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Mark reads the final episode of The Time Machine
Steyn on Dover Beach
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The first of a brand new series: Steyn on lines (of poetry)
Dover Beach
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For the first in our new series of classic poetry, Steyn reads Dover Beach, written by Matthew Arnold and published in 1867. 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 new 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 shortly. ...
Interrogatories-a-go-go
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Mark Steyn Club members put their questions to Mark
Abominable Desolation
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The penultimate episode of Mark's latest audio adventure
Soft Creatures and Their Clinging Fingers
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Part Nine of our current Tale for Our Time - The Time Machine
The Futility of All Ambition
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For Father's Day weekend, Part Eight of our audio adventure in an unmanned world
The Nemesis of the Delicate Ones
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Part Seven of Mark's serialization of The Time Machine
Where Men Watch Women Drown
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Welcome to Part Six of The Time Machine
"I Could Not See How Things Were Kept Going"
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Part Five of Mark's latest audio adventure, The Time Machine
Hairless Visages and Girlish Rotundity
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Part Four of Mark's new audio adventure: The Time Machine
The Flower People
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Mark reads Part Three of The Time Machine by H G Wells
"Such Days as No Human Being Ever Lived Before!"
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Part Two of Mark's serialization of H G Wells' classic The Time Machine
Question Mark
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Steyn takes Mark Steyn Club members' questions from around the world
The Sheepskin on the Sand
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Mark reads the final episode of our nightly Tale for Our Time
"A Poisonous Crowd When You Put 'Em in a Corner"
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Welcome to the penultimate episode of our nightly adventure serial, The Tragedy of the Korosko, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1897...
Moral Clarity and Civilizational Confidence
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Part Thirteen of Mark's serialization of a Conan Doyle classic, The Tragedy of the Korosko, written in 1897 but timelier than ever
"Devil Take the Flincher!"
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Steyn reads Part Twelve of Conan Doyle's The Tragedy of the Korosko
Sweet Little Lambs and the Book of the Camel
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Part Eleven of Mark's serialization of Conan Doyle's The Tragedy of the Korosko
Making a Name at Converting the Infidel
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Part Ten of our nightly Victorian adventure yarn, The Tragedy of the Korosko
Absurdity and Honor
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For Victoria Day: the Queen's highland fling, and Part Nine of our authentic Victorian adventure yarn
Reactionary but Tremendous
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For the Victoria Day weekend, Part Eight of our Victorian adventure serial
"What's Wrong to Us is Wrong to Them"
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Part Seven of Mark's nightly audio adventure - Conan Doyle's classic novel The Tragedy of the Korosko
"How Can You Possibly Be a Muslim Feminist?"
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This edition was recorded before the bloodbath in Manchester, but we think you'll find tthe conversation interesting and timely. Mark talks to Muslim activist Raheel Raza about the possibilities of reforming Islam - though, at the end of another grim week, what may resonate most is his question about whether, for westerners, Islam, reformed or not, is worth the effort:
From Buchan to Babysitting...
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Mark takes your questions live from around the world
A Blaspheming Dog
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Part Six of Mark's nightly serialization of Conan Doyle's The Tragedy of the Korosko
The Rough Clutches of the Seventh Century
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Part Five of Mark's serialization of a Conan Doyle classic from 1897, The Tragedy of the Korosko
The Hundred-to-One Chance Comes Off
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Part Four of our serialization of an all too relevant tale by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Clubman's Notes
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